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The Ignorant Schoolmaster's Toolbox: Participatory Techniques for Democratic Learning

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Wed, 12/05/2007 - 21:42 by matt noyes

A collection of participatory activities I have used in teaching, both at Meiji University and in my English for Activists courses for Labor Now. All activities were created by Matt Noyes, unless otherwise indicated. All content is under a Creative Commons attribution, share-alike, non-commercial license (see footer). (As content is added, I will see how best to organize it into broad categories. In the meantime, it may be easiest to navigate by clicking on the tags.)

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Comments and suggestions are welcome (gratefully received)!

  • Ready for Publication
  • Introduction
  • Games for building dialogue and trust
  • Games for finding themes and problems
  • Games for cooperative learning
  • Games for analysis and investigation
  • Games for strategy and action planning
  • Games for creative thinking and improvisation
  • Games for evaluation and assessment
  • 3x3x3
  • Circle of questions and answers
  • Drawing for the audience
  • Crossed messages
  • Cut Text
  • Describe and Verify
  • Drawings with descriptions
  • One line drawing
  • Favorite/Least Favorite
  • Haka Variations
  • Hey! Shujinko!
  • I Second that (e)motion
  • I'm sorry, I don't understand...
  • Instant Playback
  • Liar, Liar
  • Listening game
  • Love Speech
  • Maria is a teacher
  • Most people would say...
  • My People -- poetry activity
  • Nothing is given: Observation, Knowledge, Deduction
  • One sentence symphony
  • One word to a hundred
  • Open and Close
  • Passive Listening 101
  • Plastic Bag Education
  • Postal workers, 1,2,3, stop!
  • Power up!
  • Questioning into
  • Bad Lip Reading
  • Experience Rendering
  • I already knew that
  • I remember the smell...
  • Me --> You dialogue
  • Reading the air - 空気を読む
  • Sinéctica Corporal
  • Visual Dictation
  • Wealth Inequality - who feels it knows it
  • ideas for revision NOT PUBLIC
  • Remoscope
  • Reverse Google Translation Poetry Slam
  • Run-on story
  • Second thoughts.
  • Silent Story
  • Simon Proposes
  • Six degrees of curiosity
  • So you mean...
  • Something's going right here
  • Sound shiritori
  • Sugoroku Board Game
  • Superpowers
  • Tag cloud
  • Talking to Ourselves
  • That's how I feel.
  • That's my song!
  • The Gift
  • The Interpreter
  • The Mute Button
  • The People's Microphone
  • The boss of your brain
  • Thinking out loud (for someone else)
  • Three Elements
  • Three by Four
  • Time Bomb
  • Um, what is that? (aka alien communication)
  • What do you see?
  • What is ... ?
  • Writing into
  • Yes, twice
  • Some general techniques
  • Reflections and Comments
  • Sources

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