Story telling in the class room -for under and post graduates

1. Story Telling In The Class Room
Dr. Padmanabhan Krishnan, PHAG,
SMEC, VIT- Vellore- 632014.

2. To make a blurred picture clearer
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3. Fables, Parables and Allegories
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4. Fables
• A story where the main characters are the
supernatural, animals, birds and insects.
• Examples are Panchatantra and Aesop’s
Fables.
• The Hare and the Tortoise.
• It is normally a short story ( a fable !)
• It teaches a moral or delivers a strong
message at the end.
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5. Parables
• A parable is a short story that tells a moral
or a religious lesson at the end.
• The characters are mostly the
supernatural and humans.
• An example is the story of a woodcutter
and his axe lost in the river. For his
honesty the fairy grants him a golden axe.
• The messages are strong and breed
morality.
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6. Metaphors and Allegories
• A metaphor is a likening in a short phrase
or sentence.
• An allegory stretches it to a story, play or
a picture where the characters symbolize
a particular idea, trait or virtue.
• Examples are George Orwell’s Animal
Farm which is a political allegory on the
Russian Revolution of 1917.
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7. Contents
• Introduction and Definitions
• Basic Philosophy in Story Telling & Teaching
• Evolution of Thoughts and Delivery
• Class Room Story Telling Basics
• Tools and Methodologies
• Bench-marking and Paradigm shifts
• Achieving Excellence and Ranking
• Case Studies
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8. The duty of a teacher is to make
his students think, not just learn
Swami Vivekandanda

9. Vasudaiva Kutumbakam

10. Definitions
• Didactics: An adjective intended for
instruction, instructive, inclined to teach or
lecture others too much.
• Being didactic, a verb.
• Pedagogy: The method, act and practice
of teaching, especially as an academic
subject or theoretical concept
• A pedagogue : A teacher or Instructor
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11. Definitions
• Etymology: Is the study of origin and
history of words
• Epistemology : The theory of knowledge,
especially with regard to its methods,
validity, scope and the distinction between
justified belief and opinion. Knowledge
must be beyond opinion, belief and true as
it requires to be justified.
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12. Definitions
• Ontology: A set of concepts and
categories in a subject area or domain that
shows their properties and relations
between them.
• Division of existing things into an order to
understand them better.
• Data sets, their correlations and
connectivity.
• Structure property correlations !
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13. The Importance of Evolution
• Prepare the course syllabus as an
evolutionary process.
• Go sequentially in the module delivery.
• Do not descend the ladder ! Take the
subject up from a simple to complex path.
• Remember, the simple amoeba evolved
nearly 3.5 Billion years back and we,
homo sapien-sapiens evolved only 3 lac
years back. Evolve the subject.
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14. Evolution Towards Artificial Intelligence
• The path

15. Cart Before The Horse
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16. Virtues that help in story telling
• Subject knowledge, communication skills.
• Should state objectives, methods, results
and summary.
• Should be a loud and clear dynamic model
of creating enthusiasm.
• Link the subject with a student’s prior
experience.
• Ensure interaction of the students with out
distraction ( Ref: Mission 10X by WIPRO)
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17. Virtues that help in story telling
• Should avoid visible mannerisms.
• Based on assessment and feedback,
improve the story telling techniques to suit
slow learners.
• Should maintain cordial teacher student
relationship to get your story across.
• Should inspire and impress the students
• Should be innovative and unbiased.
• Should be a life long learner.
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18. Virtues that help in story telling
• Don’t push your research contributions
side-lining the pioneering references that
go into the course.
• Put your work in a realistic context and
embed it suitably to show case your
contributions to enable collaboration.
• Remember, a mistake that makes you
humble is better than an achievement that
makes you arrogant.
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19. Strategies for enhancing
student motivation
• Challenge yourself before challenging
them.
• Build on strengths first and then address
weakness
• Offer choices, prepare a roadmap.
• Provide a secure environment
• Teach them how to make their tasks
manageable
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20. Strategies for enhancing the
student motivation
• Use rewards & punishments with caution.
• Help students develop an internal locus
control and Avoid power struggles
• Be clear and not ambiguous
• Develop creativity through activities
• Teach them introspection & self evaluation
• Seek their attention & make them
competitive and more perfect. ( Mission 10X by Wipro )
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21. What distinguishes an excellent
teacher or a student from a poor one ?
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22. Tools and Methods
• Interaction Based Activities, Brain
mapping through charts, trees and group
activities.
• Flipped Class room
• Role play and demonstration
• Recalling keywords, Re-cap and feed back
of last class.
• Puzzle solving through maths, scrabbles,
building blocks, Smart Board Games
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23. Tools and Methodologies
• Mnemonics ( Initial letter) to remember
concepts and terminology.
• Quizzing, Rapid fire picture and lucky draw
quizzes
• Multiple Choice Questions
• Experimentation, demonstration and
experiential learning
• Spot the missing label in a diagram
• Deductive and innovative conclusions.
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24. Tools and Methodologies
• Exploded views, sectional diagrams, scale
diagrams
• Animations, videos of a dynamic or kinetic
process with real time & slow motion
speeds for understanding the processes .
• Group projects, embedded lab &
seminars.
• Industry component, visits and expert
lectures. ( Ref: Mission 10 X by Wipro )
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25. Old Bloom’s Taxonomy
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26. New Bloom’s Taxonomy
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27. A word about flipped class room
• It is student or learner centric as against
teacher centric.
• It is a very active way of learning
compared to a passive didactic way.
• Most of the afore mentioned tools can be
used to engage and connect the student
learning to benefit even the slow learners.
• The teacher becomes multifaceted, also
turns into a mediator.
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“ You are rated by
what you
produce, not by
what you
attempt”

29. Excellence in Teaching
From Diffuse Learning
to Conceptual Learning
Team D
Dr. A. Revathi
Dr. Ruby Das
Dr. Susmita Ghosh
Dr. Anupama Singh
Jan 10, 2020

30. Need of Transformation
in Present Scenario
LTPI – imbibe students with industrial perspective
Role of Faculty : Supervisor, Resource Provider,
Assessor, Counsellor, Experimenter,
Collaborator, Curator
Present Scenario of HEIs in India
LTP/ LP – Lack in innovative
practices L T P
L T P I

31. What do we want to achieve?
• Concept and Practices
• Real operational industrial challenges
• Value added application oriented learning
• Experiential learning, collaborative approach
• Rote learner to problem solver
• Bridging gap between industry and academia
• Enrich students with courses on :
Real time problem solving
Foundation Applications

32. Cambridge Model-Student Outcomes

33. Storytelling for Accreditation and Ranking
• Accreditation for NAAC, ABET and IET, more in
the offing !
• Records and documenting your approach,
methodology, tools employed, improvements,
achievements and feedback.
• Ranking frameworks like NIRF, QS, THE and the
like.
• Proven storytelling success records as
benchmarks for ranking exercises.
• Repeatability and reproducibilty !

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Case Study 1
Nature and Mathematics

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The Human Brain
Neo cortex
Visual Maths, FEM, SVG, Mathematics of Graphics, Lyrical Music, Quantitative
Pattern Recognition, Modular Assembly are all Demanding on both the sides !

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Division and multiplication
• We learn division from Mitosis and
meiosis, cell division and duplication!

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Order of Equations in Nature
• The first from Classical Physics is the fundamental law of energy
radiation known as Wien's law.It is based on wavelengths to the fifth
power. This means energy as photons is based on wavelengths to
the fifth power!
Atomic and nuclear emitted energy has a proven fifth power basis;
just as the 5SPACE formula has.
• After Einstein failed in his attempt to unify Gravity with
Electromagnetism,
Kaluza & Klein [K&K] proved that if space-time had a fifth dimension
in which Charge was the angular momentum in that fifth dimension.
Gravity and Electromagnetism could indeed be unified with General
Relativity
• More equations in a separate page

38. Laws of Nature
• Mass= Volume X ρ ( Density)
• Heat Generated in a circuit= I 2 R, Current
squared X Resistance.
• Gravitation has a square rule !
• Area of a Circle = πr2, square rule !
• Quadratic polynomials , Lagrange !
• Volume = r 3 , cube of side or a X b X c
• Mechanical power of swimming ꭃ the cube of
velocity !
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39. Laws of Nature
• Hermite polynomials solve beams !
• Stefan- Boltzman : Energy radiated per unit area
is fourth power of Temperature.
• Step work: Work need to transition from one
stance of limb to another increases with fourth
power of step length.
• Cylinder flow: Steady flow around a buoyant
finite cylinder within a rapidly rotating core has a
component proportional to the inverse fifth
power;
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40. Laws of Nature
• ……rotating rapidly at right angles to the
earth's gravity and containing a rigid
cylindrical float is found under the assumption
of small viscosity.
• Lightning from cumulonimbus clouds :
Lightning power goes up with the 5th power
of the cloud size. The 5th power of the cold-
cloud depth is proportional to the stored static
electric energy and to the charging rate in the
convective cloud.
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41. Laws of Nature
• According to Brahm's law (sometimes
called Airy's law), the maximum mass of
objects that may be moved away by a river
is proportional to the sixth power of the
river flow speed.
• Van der Waals forces : Van der Waals
forces are proportional to the inverse
seventh power of distance, so they act
only over short distances.
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42. Laws of Nature
• Corrosion in river flow: Corrosion of iron
and steels by acid river water is
proportional to 7.5th power of the flow
velocity.
• Jet noise: Lighthill's eighth power law
states that the acoustic power generated
by a jet engine is proportional to the eighth
power of the jet speed.

43. Laws of Nature
• Carbon flow from ocean: Flow of carbon from
the upper ocean to the atmosphere is
proportional to the ninth power of the mass of
carbon in the upper ocean.
• Stellar carbon cycle reaction rate: In energy-
generation reactions for fusion in stellar interiors
in which hydrogen is converted into carbon, the
reaction rate is proportional to anything from
Temperature 13 in hot massive stars to T20 in
stars like the Sun. In red super giants it can be
up to T 40 .
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Exponential Behaviour
Like in sound attenuation with
unattenuated initial value Ao,
attenuation coefficient (k) and
distance or depth (t)

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Visual Mathematics
Cartesian equation:
y4 - x4 + a y2 + b x2 = 0
Polar equation (Special case):
r = √[(25 - 24tan2(θ))/(1 - tan2(θ))]
Polar equation:
r2 = a2θ
Parametric Cartesian equation:
x = a sin(nt + c), y = b sin(t)

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Visual Mathematics
Cartesian equation:
y(x2 + a2) = a3
or parametrically:
x = at, y = a/(1 + t2)
Polar equation:
r = a sin(kθ)
Cartesian equation:
y = x cot(πx/2a)
Polar equation:
r = 2aθ/(πsin(θ))
Lived during 1719-1799 in
Bolgna, before Karl Fredrich
Gauss who Lived during 1777-1855.

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Visual Mathematics
Polar equation:
r = a/θ
Polar equation:
rp = ap cos(pθ)
A point-based
representation of the
mathematical surface:

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49. Thank You and Questions
Please
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