5.2 How do I create a session from the DIY Learn modules?
There is no set approach for delivering the content in a session. The structure of your session – what you teach, the materials that you use – is likely to depend on a range of factors in your local context or setting.
However, the DIY Learn team believes that you will have the most success in using the materials if you do the following:
- Base each training session on one module at a time. You could create a workshop from two or three training sessions, divided up with food and comfort breaks.
- Make sure you are completely familiar with the material in the module and have an understanding of how it fits into the process of innovation as a whole before the session.
- Consider what you want students to focus on during the training session and what you may want students to work on outside the session (either before or afterwards).
- Take sections of the core content and turn them into short talks lasting approximately 10–15 minutes. You probably need three or four of these short talks for a two-hour session. These will work best if there is an activity or exercise between each talk that will keep students engaged.
- Adapt the activities and exercises provided, and/or your own activity ideas, to relate topics to your location/context and to the students’ own experiences. Incorporate these between your short talks on the core content.
- If you have the facilities, you could produce accompanying PowerPoint slides that you can put up on a screen, or give students handouts. Alternatively, make a list of the key ideas and concepts that you can write on a board and talk through in the class.
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