Teaching, Learning, and Active Engagement

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Teaching, Learning, and Active Engagement

• Why is active engagement so important for
  learning?

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How Do Students Learn 1?

• They learn by actively participating
• Observing, speaking, writing, listening,
  thinking, drawing, doing
• They must be engaged to learn
• Learning is enhanced when students see potential
  implications, applications, and benefits to
  others
• Learning builds on current understanding

How People Learn (NRC, 1999)
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Learning Styles

• How does the person prefer to process
  information?
• Actively through engagement in physical
  activity or discussion
• Reflectively through introspection
• Questionnaire - Barbara Soloman Richard
  Felder
• http//www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.ht
  ml
• Thanks to Robyn Dunbar and Marcelo
  Clerici-Arias, Stanford University Center for
  Teaching and Learning

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Your Learning Styles

• Active Reflective

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Learning Styles

• What type of information does the person
  preferentially perceive?
• Sensory sights, sounds, physical sensations,
  data
• Intuitive memories, ideas, models, abstract

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Your Learning Styles

• Sensory Intuitive

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Learning Styles

• Through which modality is sensory information
  most effectively perceived?
• Visual pictures, diagrams, graphs,
  demonstrations, field trips
• Verbal sounds, written and spoken words,
  formulas

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Your Learning Styles

• Visual Verbal

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Learning Styles

• How does the person progress toward
  understanding?
• Sequentially in logical progression of small
  incremental steps
• Globally in large jumps, holistically

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Your Learning Styles

• Sequential Global

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How Do Students Learn 2?

• Different people are most comfortable learning in
  different ways
• Multiple representations enhance the learning of
  all students

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Context for Morning Sessions

• Active engagement is important for learning
• Students have different learning styles
• Expand your toolbox of teaching strategies
• Most students most students
• passive active