1. Lunch & Learn Workshop Friday, March 26 - GEDDES - Developing Experiential Strategies

2. There is no magic to it! It is simply doing something in the theater of the mind, BUT it is even more than that … The key element to experiential learning is that of trial and error. This is to say, I give the student a concept, they TRY the concept, they get FEEDBACK, they REFORMULATE … and try again, reformulate and try it again, reformulate and try again …

3. HANDOUT

4. Udvar Hazy School of Business A current work-in-process to have Experiential Learning threaded into the CULTURE of the School of Business!

5. EXAMPLE: Cognitive Processes Objective: Exercise a full range of thinking skills as tools for processing information to address acquisitive, adaptive, and inventive tasks. Strategy: Orchestrate assignments to address and reinforce a full range of cognitive processes, using debriefing techniques to help students understand what they are doing. Making it Personal: MKTG 4100, Marketing Strategies

6. Go Deeper! I KNOW what you are saying: “We do this all the time…” Remember: There is no magic to it! [Remember how much smarter Mom and Dad get year after year? They probably don’t know how to connect the dots effectively – SO, when YOU do, the paradygm shifts in a BIG way! This is one of the powerful outcomes to Experiential Learning]

7. “Experiential” is that the STUDENT is experiencing it! ------- They are not just giving knowledge back and repeating abstractions. They are experiencing things that affect them deep down in their heart – and things that can be found and applied in the real world. It can be an exercise in a group, and it can be an exercise simply in their mind. The key ingredient is that they have to experience it. They have to feel it. They have to grasp the magic of actually seeing a solution, and that it comes from … THEM.

8. Let’s add to the GROUP example: Simple experiential learning question Why would ANYONE buy a Prius?

9. MORE EXAMPLES Impersonal Search Capabilities Learning Journals Field Trips DECA – the Incubator for Experiential Learning! POWERFUL EXAMPLES OF OUTCOMES

10. SUMMARIZE Again, there is no magic to experiential learning. ------ Experiential learning is where people actually experience it in the theater of their mind, which I encourage. They are actually doing it. They're not just getting concepts and spitting back these concepts. ------- We're trying to infuse Experiential Learning throughout the curriculum.