I am doing a session on marketing for a Heritage Management lecture in a couple of weeks. I have decided to do a activity to develop their own group poster and marketing pitch, I think to promote Lincoln to overseas travellers. They then have to pitch it to me. Imbedding core skills I hope through poster development, costings, pitch etc and encouraging students to learn from each other to develop key core skills and work out strengths.
Have any of you tried out such Dagon's Den type activities before? Can you see any pitfalls I haven't thought of? I only have a very small group so I am hoping to get the students supporting and learning off each other effectively.
I am just concerned that I might not have enough time to do the activity, any time saving ideas? :-)
We actually had to do a Dragon's Den activity for PTLLs. It went well. Like with any group activity, time has to be put aside for collaboration and clear goals, targets and deadlines have to be set to ensure they stay focused as a group.
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ReplyDeleteI found when I used this format for Functional skills it was essential to give the learners a starting point and clear guidance. Some more confident learners were happier to take on the student led parts of the lesson, whereas less confident learners needed more direction.
Great, thanks for the help. The activity went really well. I will definitely do it again, and look at adapting it for FE.
ReplyDeleteThe activity has provided a great template for me to work with, it enabled all the students to target their minimum core skills without realising it. In this case however it worked really well with ICT, one student is not confident but the took the initiative and challenged themselves to develop the poster on computer and improve their skills. With the activity as a whole alongside this really enabled the student to target the core skill of - 'user appropriate techniques to reinforce oral communication, check how well the information is recieved and support understanding of those listening'.
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