“Do We Have to Tap Dance on a Desk to Get Students’ Attention?”

Educators can use instructional design to “hook” students by contextualizing

advancements in biotechnology, focusing on Anatomy and Physiology Classes, for example, in order to show the relevance of bioscience

workforce skills to highlight new career opportunities.

NSF-ATE Grant #1304010 Bioscience Industry Fellowship Project

Tandeka Boko, MD

Heutagogy (Kenyon & Hase, 2001)

Instructional Event: THE HOOK

• Cognitive research on effective learning by Gagne’ and Briggs

• Activity, Image, Question, Quote or Technology-based Tool that gains the learner’s attention

• Focuses learners on the lesson topics of the day

Polymerase Chain Reaction Article

• Suppose you pick up a journal and read an article on using polymerase chain reactions (PCR) and gel electrophoresis to predict one’s bitter tasting ability.

• If the PCR product made from the gene coding for the bitter taste receptor is assigned (T) for the taster allele and (t) for the non-taster allele,

•What is the likely genotype of the person in the next slide?

What Is Her Most Likely Genotype? (Heredity Lab on Inheritance)

What two basic properties of positive and negative charges did the developer of this model use, in order to give this insulin molecule stability in its 3D conformation (Aspart Insulin)?

Hint #1: Anion ExchangeChromatography Columns

How do Positive and Negative Charges Relate to Nanoscience Biomimicry?

Fruit Fly Foot (Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering)

Geico Hairs on Foot (Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering)

Immunology and Nanocones on Cicada Wings (JSNN)

Concept of a Million Nephrons in the Kidney

Decellularized Kidney (WFIRM) Traditional Textbook Nephron (Wiley)

BIOSCIENCE

INDUSTRY

CAREERS

Take Aways

• 1. Consider Heutagogy (Kenyan and Hase, 2001) as an approach to teaching and learning whereby one strategy is to use Differentiated Instructional Design (Tomlinson, 2013) to facilitate interdependent learning.

• 2. Present the “Hook” Often

• 3. Though one does not have to be immersed in biosciences to present the “hook” in the classroom, becoming a Bioscience Industry Project Fellow saves time, makes the hooks easier to collect and gives one a story to tell.