Interactive Learning Activities: Empathy Studies and Metacognition

This lecture introduces a structured plan for the semester, including pre-class activities, in-class clicker questions, and post-class empathy studies. Students will engage in empathy studies on learners to design a learning artifact in semester two, developing a valuable skill for future design projects. The importance of diverse teams and skills for working in diverse teams will also be addressed through a workshop. The effectiveness of interactive teaching, particularly peer instruction, is highlighted, along with the concept of desirable difficulty. The lecture concludes with a discussion on Miller's magic number and the term metacognition, emphasizing the course's focus on understanding and managing one's own thinking and learning process.