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Michelle Krill

Learning with 'e's: Digital age learning - 0 views

  • a shift of emphasis from andragogy to self-determined learning would be beneficial because just like pedagogy, andragogy still holds connotations of teacher control
Michelle Krill

Eric Mazur on new interactive teaching techniques | Harvard Magazine Mar-Apr 2012 - 0 views

  • Interactive learning triples students’ gains in knowledge as measured by the kinds of conceptual tests that had once deflated Mazur’s spirits, and by many other assessments as well. It has other salutary effects, like erasing the gender gap between male and female undergraduates.
  • For his part, Mazur has collected reams of data on his students’ results. (He says most scholars, even scientists, rely on anecdotal evidence instead.) End-of-semester course evaluations he dismisses as nothing more than “popularity contests” that ought to be abolished. “There is zero correlation between course evaluations and the amount learned,” he says. “Award-winning teachers with the highest evaluations can produce the same results as teachers who are getting fired.”
  • Active learners take new information and apply it, rather than merely taking note of it.
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  • From cognitive science, we hear that learning is a process of moving information from short-term to long-term memory; assessment research has proven that active learning does that best.”
  • Websites and laptops have been around for years now, but we haven’t fully thought through how to integrate them with teaching so as to conceive of courses differently.”
  • It starts from his view of education as a two-step process: information transfer, and then making sense of and assimilating that information. “
  • Taking active learning seriously means revamping the entire teaching/learning enterprise—even turning it inside out or upside down. For example, active learning overthrows the “transfer of information” model of instruction, which casts the student as a dry sponge who passively absorbs facts and ideas from a teacher.
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Michelle Krill

Constructivism is a theory of learning that has roots in both philosophy and psychology - 0 views

  • 7.  Teachers serve primarily as guides and facilitators of learning, not instructors.  The role of the teacher in the learning process has often been a major factor in the apparent division between cognitive constructivism and social/radical constructivism.  Teachers, in the cognitive constructivist perspective, are usually portrayed as instructors who "transmit knowledge."  The teacher instructs, while the learner learns.  In actuality, in the cognitive constructivist perspective, the role of the teacher is to create experiences in which the students will participate that will lead to appropriate processing and knowledge acquisition.  Consequently, cognitive constructivism supports the teacher as a guide or facilitator to the extent that the teacher is guiding or facilitating relevant processing.  Contrarily, since social and radical constructivism eschew any direct knowledge of reality, there is no factual knowledge to transmit and the only role for the teacher is to guide students to an awareness of their experiences and socially agreed-upon meanings.  This teacher as guide metaphor indicates that the teacher is to motivate, provide examples, discuss, facilitate, support, and challenge, but not to attempt to act as a knowledge conduit.
  • constructivism is a theory of knowledge acquisition, not a theory of pedagogy;
Michelle Krill

Putting students in charge to close the achievement gap | The Hechinger Report - 0 views

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    "Educators, researchers, and policymakers at the state and national level are keeping close tabs on Pittsfield, which has become an incubator for a critical experiment in school reform. The goal: a stronger connection between academic learning and the kind of real-world experience that advocates say can translate into postsecondary success."
Michelle Krill

5 Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Unmotivated Students | Cult of Pedagogy - 0 views

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    If we know what works to motivate students, why are so many students still unmotivated? These five questions will help you determine if your practice is really
Michelle Krill

100 Videos and Counting: Lessons From a Flipped Classroom | Edutopia - 0 views

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    " it's a mistake to become overly invested in your video's "wow factor" at the expense of instructional integrity. "
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