Productive Pedagogies

Week 2 - Engagement Activity 1

Cooking Rice

 

 

Even the simplest of tasks can provide the foundation for a quality learning experience. From cooking rice, to discussing the safe use of microwave ovens, visiting scientific concepts, and the culture and eating habits (perhaps even socioeconomics) of the world! An activity that provides instruction for a simple task (behavioural approach), but overall adopts a very learner-centred, constructivist approach, in which students work together with their teacher to achieve a common goal while sharing individual knowledge, thus socially constructing each student's learning/knowledge through collaboration.