BRUCE BYL LEARNING EXPERIENTIAL
"It’s helped me grow. It really has, just on all levels, professionally and personally.” – ABBY GUDITH, BUSINESS STUDENT
DISCOVERY
V
oices in headphones clamped over Kami Azevedo’s pink hair whisper in the 20-year-old’s ears that she’s been chosen. She’s special. She’s the one.
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING Flips classroom scripts, advances across campus
Suddenly, the flattery stops. The voices’ solicitous tone ends. Now through the headphones, the voices tell the NMC psychology student she’s wrong, bad and dirty, adding in obscenities for good measure. Positive or negative, sometimes not even intelligible, the recorded voices distract Azevedo (above) from the questions her class partner’s asking simultaneously. Other student pairs call the hearingvoices experience frustrating, confusing, even scary. Reaching those conclusions themselves is the whole point of the simulation, which students underwent to experience the abnormal psychology they were studying. “They’ll remember that a lot longer than seeing a (video) clip or hearing me talk about it,” said social sciences instructor Lisa Blackford.
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SUMMER 2018 | VOLUME 2 | ISSUE 2
