Transcript PowerPoint - Jisc Moodle Archive

What is learning?
“A relatively permanent
change in behaviour that
results from practice”
“A meaning-making process”
Does what you teach
translate into what your
learners learn?
ATHERTON J S (2009) What is learning?
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/whatlearn.htm
Motivation to learn
Maslow’s hierarchy
of needs
ATHERTON J S (2009) Motivation
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/motivation.htm
Note down examples of:
• Questions you ask your learners
• The purpose of each of these
questions
Surface v deep learning
• Recall/reproduce
facts
• Aim to pass exams
• No reflection
• No concept of
overall patterns or
themes
• Relate concepts to
existing knowledge
and everyday life
• Organise and
restructure new
knowledge
• Challenge new
concepts
• Determine what is
significant
Reece & Walker (2003) Teaching, training and learning
Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Classify forms and levels of learning
• Identifies three domains of learning
– Cognitive (Knowledge)
– Affective (Attitude)
– Psycho-motor (Skills)
Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Include lower and higher level tasks
• Staying with tasks at the bottom the
taxonomy can lead to surface learning
• The full spectrum of the taxonomy
could appear at every academic level
Bloom’s Taxonomy – effective
questioning
Pair work
• Assign the questions to the appropriate
level of Bloom’s taxonomy
• Review the questions you habitually use
Memory
ATHERTON J S (2009) Memory
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/memory.htm
Triggering the memory
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4.
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Unusual info
Organised info
Make associations e.g. verbal, visual
Review during and after
Create multisensory memories
Rose & Nicholl (1998) Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century
Learning cycle (Kolb)
Concrete
Experience
Active
Experimentation
Reflective
Observation
Abstract
Conceptualisation
Learning by doing / experiential
learning
• Simulations, real-life problem-solving
tasks, use of props and arterfacts
• They stimulate high-level thinking skills
i.e. reasoning, enquiry, creative thinking,
evaluation
Active learning
“Active learning? You must be
joking, there’s not time for
entertainment with all this
content to cover.”