Elevating Student Potential: Creating Digital Video to Teach Neurotransmission

摘要: Students today have unprecedented access to technology, the Internet, and social media. Their nearly ubiquitous use of these platforms is well documented. Given that today’s students may be primed learn using a different medium, incorporating various technological elements into classroom in manner compatible with traditional approaches teaching becomes challenge. We recently designed implemented strategy capitalized on this knowledge. their first neuroscience course were required create 3–5 minute digital video video-making freeware available any Mac or PC. They used images, text, animation, as downloaded music describe fundamental process neurotransmission it applies topic choice. In comparison taught other more demonstrate neurotransmission, we observed who took part project exhibited better understanding neurological at multiple levels, defined by Bloom’s revised taxonomy. This was true even had no aspirations pursuing Neuroscience career, thus suggesting there an overall increased level student engagement regardless personal career interests. The utility our approach validated both direct indirect assessments. Importantly, particular difficult concepts offers high degree flexibility allowing potentially incorporated upper-level course.