Description

The instructor inserts intentional mistakes into their teaching materials (such as misspellings in their presentations) or their speech to:

• Check learners’ depth of knowledge.
• Make memorable teaching moments.
• Keep learners critically engaged.

Advantages

• Keeps learners on their toes during the lesson, especially during the boring sections.
• Can turn learning into a game if you let the learners know to look out for the mistakes in advance. You could also offer a reward to the individual who identifies the error.
• Can lead to critical discussions about common mistakes that learners make in a topic.

Disadvantages

• You may risk having learners believe you had made the mistakes intentionally.
• Learners may believe the mistakes are truths and end up believing untrue things.

Implementation

1. Create intentional spelling and grammatical errors.
2. Mispronounce a term and see if learners realize it.
3. Flip a couple of words in a sentence and see if anyone realizes.