Murthy's Paradigm:
on Education & Training through
on Education & Training through
Fun & Entertainment
Dance, Music, Drama, Comedy & Emotion Filled Ambiances
for all ages subjects using
dance, drama, music, animation, video games & make believe games
Education and Training becomes effective, efficient and impacting when the learners mind is at an elevated and excited state of the mind and body as in entertainment which is fun filled, which also lowers any inhibitions and fear in the learner. I will cover the brain activity aspects in the learner during fun and entertainment, as well as memory impressions, in a separate document. I have already written on video games based education applicable to age ranges from almost birth to over hundred years. I will provide references to my previous documents, articles and research papers for the benefit of readers to this document.
I will discuss specific examples and describe a variety of fun and entertainment approaches to make the learning and training different subjects, so that the readers and practitioners of education and entertainment can quickly adopt and adapt my paradigms and techniques in specific science, technology, business, economics, finance, history, literature, art, athletics and even sports.
Microbiology
My paradigm of education and training through fun, entertainment and games is applicable to the subject of Microbiology. I will discuss the application to teaching and learning different aspects of proteins as one specific example.
Proteins
Proteins are made up of amino acids, connected to each other via peptide bonds in specific series of links in specific orders, and in folded or curled pattern to give the specific properties of the protein.
The are twenty types of amino acids, with a common part of the molecular structure to all twenty amino acids and additional twenty specific and different part of the molecules called the R part of the molecule.
Amino Acids Dance Drama
Using Dance to Teach the Structure of the Amino Acids
Dance is a very effective entertainment medium to teach structure of the amino acids and the twenty varieties.
The students would be wearing different colored and patterned costumes and other paraphernalia like caps, hats, ornaments, colored bands and scarfs, plus may hold / carry colored and patterned bands in their two hands. LED lighting with ability to blink in different timing patterns could also be used to embellish the student costumes and paraphernalia.
Amino acids are made up of molecules containing different atoms in molecular bonds between the atoms. In the amino acids, the atoms are nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Different students will take the roles of these atoms with unique identifying colors of costumes for the different atoms. The bonds could the students holding each others hands to form the molecular bonds, while batons also could serve similar functions and purposes. To signify and represent the covalent bonding between the atoms, when a common electron is shared between the atoms, quickly zipping through the waist belt string of lit LEDs circling around the two students will act as the teaching tool of the covalent bonding. The LED colors in the waist belt strings and the timing patterns zippling patterns could differentiate the bonds between any two pair of atoms, as well as between the molecules.
While entering the stage the students enter as separate atoms with their paraphernalia and LEDs not yet lit. The nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen and the carbon atoms enter stage and even may wear caps or hats with respective letters like N, O, H and C clearly and dominantly visible to spectators. The letter representing the atoms may also be on the chest and back of the student atoms. The student atoms may even carry in their hands the respective properties like number of protons, electrons and neutrons, plus atomic properties. The student atoms may loudly announce the properties of their atom representation. Music and lyrics could embellish the different atomic properties. Announcements by an MCs (Masters of Ceremony), the director or other announcers could make the announcements to welcome the different atoms. Multiple numbers of student atoms are required for each category of the atoms, as the amino acids contain multiple hydrogens, oxygens and carbons. For example, all oxygens walk into the stage, while ceremonial quality and pomp announcements with music and unique walkin plus dance movements, that will not only make the grand entrances gloryful and also help the student and parent spectators enjoy all aspects of the event. The fun, entertainment and pomp also especially help the student learners remember the concepts better. The spectators could clap, stand up, cheer and make noises that helps further imprint in their mind the concepts and different properties of atoms, molecules, molecular bonds and in the example all about amino acids.
The Different Molecular Bonds
After the grand entrances, the different student atoms stand in atom specific areas of the stage, where big signs could be used for the areas. The student atoms, one at a time, come to the center of the stage to demonstrate the different unique bonds between the atoms to form molecules, and in this specific example of the drama of amino acids, the two atom bonds of the OH bonds the NH, as examples. All combinations are played out, with all different atoms walk or dance to the center and repeat, or show different variations.
In the next phase, the student atoms and bonded student molecules for the general structure are formed , that may be repeated few times.
The 20 Amino Acids
Further phases of the Amino Acids Dance Drama include the formation of all the 20 amino acids with continuing fun, entertainment and pomp, with full spectator participation.
The Protein Structure
The four types of protein structure are demonstrated in the following phases of the dance drama, always combined with music and spectator cheering, prompted and encouraged by the cheer leaders and announcers. The amino acid chains forming the proteins, their folding patterns will be very important to be demonstrated and repeated by folding and unfolding to make sure the spectator students understand all the molecular biochemistry concepts of amino acids and proteins, in this example, are understood driving into the indelible memories of the spectator students.
Summarization Phase
A summarization of the molecular biology concepts in this dance drama would be pertinent and valuable to student spectators, with salient aspects of the whole dance drama quickly repeated when the cheer leaders make sure that the summary slogans are repeated with applause by the student spectators.
Test and Quiz Phase of the Molecular Biology
In the final phase, some test configurations and formations are done, when the student spectators have to provide the answers to correctly identify either with multiple choice quizzes or tests or let the student spectators answers with no prompting of the answer choices.
Photo Opportunities
Photo opportunities would be valuable for the dancers on the stage, cheerleaders, announcers, director and producer, along with interested student spectators and their family members.
Videography
I would strongly advise and recommend using professional videographers, for later watching and being featured on Youtube, Vimeo and also educational websites for all who could not attend to see ion demand.
Application to other Subjects and Disciplines
I will describe similar dance - music - drama approach to other subjects like physics, chemistry, mathematics, technology, arts, history, law, medicine, healthcare, nanotechnology, software, IT, computers, electrical and electronics engineering, other engineering subjects, geography, economics, finance, accounting, business, marketing, banking, sales, corporate governance, politics, philosophy, psychology and all subjects A to Z.
Dr. KRS Murthy
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References for additional study
http://www.genscript.com/amino_acid_structure.html
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