Enriching Our Education: Taking Learning to a "Live Classroom"
Major
Biology Teaching
Department
Biological Sciences
Degree
Undergraduate
Mentor
David Coleman
Mentor Department
History
Recommended Citation
Kelley, Claire M. and Wood, Morgan A., "Enriching Our Education: Taking Learning to a "Live Classroom"" (2015). University Presentation Showcase Event. 4.
https://encompass.eku.edu/swps/2015/undergraduate/4
Abstract
The Eastern Kentucky University Honors Program’s annual “Sidewalk U.” experience allows students to enact big plans for service learning while exploring various issues of cultural diversity that are vital to the areas that we study. The spring 2015 iteration of this course took us to South Carolina’s Lowcountry, where we studied “Inequality and American Society.” Our poster illuminates the learning strategies and service-learning activities employed in our course, including our discoveries when we conducted a City as Text© exercise on Hilton Head Island, as well as our interactions with the Gullah/Geechee community and the region’s numerous Latino and Haitian migrant worker camps. An active spirit of service learning infused all of our activities, culminating in a service outreach at a Hilton Head Island soup kitchen on our final day. We will explore our own experiences within the course. In addition, we will discuss how we feel other honors programs would benefit from a live classroom model.
Presentation format
Poster
Poster Number
44
Enriching Our Education: Taking Learning to a "Live Classroom"
The Eastern Kentucky University Honors Program’s annual “Sidewalk U.” experience allows students to enact big plans for service learning while exploring various issues of cultural diversity that are vital to the areas that we study. The spring 2015 iteration of this course took us to South Carolina’s Lowcountry, where we studied “Inequality and American Society.” Our poster illuminates the learning strategies and service-learning activities employed in our course, including our discoveries when we conducted a City as Text© exercise on Hilton Head Island, as well as our interactions with the Gullah/Geechee community and the region’s numerous Latino and Haitian migrant worker camps. An active spirit of service learning infused all of our activities, culminating in a service outreach at a Hilton Head Island soup kitchen on our final day. We will explore our own experiences within the course. In addition, we will discuss how we feel other honors programs would benefit from a live classroom model.
