Breaking the language barrier: Enhancing Understanding Using Visual Aids
Lightning Session Stream 1: Enhancing teaching practice
Time: 10:30 am – 10:55 am
Location: G15 & G09
Science laboratory classes can be a daunting experience to first year students transitioning to university from high school. Many Diploma students are setting foot in a laboratory for the first time and find the unfamiliar lab equipment and the complex scientific jargon used in lengthy experimental procedures confronting. This session will explore the use of visual aids such as diagrams, flow charts and visual lab equipment glossaries in the first-year laboratory setting. Visual aids act as a global language that can enhance student understanding of complex procedures as well as boost confidence, minimise stress and ultimately enhance lab safety. Participants in this workshop will be introduced to a range of online visual diagrammatic resources followed by playtime to develop their own simple flow diagram. These resources can be used and applied to other interdisciplinary areas in STEM courses.
Attendees are encouraged to bring their own laptops to practise during the session.
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Dr Karen Black | Leading Education Professional Science
Dr Karen Black is a Leading Education Professional at UNSW College and has been course convenor of the STEM Diploma Biology courses since the Diploma program’s inception in 2017. Prior to UNSW College, Karen worked in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at UNSW as an ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Research Assistant and ARC DECRA Fellow.
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