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Learner Centered Teaching: Teaching in The Absence of Learning Is Just Talking
Learner Centered Teaching: Teaching in The Absence of Learning Is Just Talking
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2.Learning almost
always happens
outside the
classroom.
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Seven Keys to Facilitating Students’
Learning in College
3. Giving students some choices and control
over their learning will result in them actively
engaging in their own learning.
Seven Keys to Facilitating Students’
Learning in College
5. Assessments that
are not cumulative
in design tell us little
about what students
have learned.
( Robert Bjork, UCLA, Memories and
Metamemories, 1998)
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Seven Keys to Facilitating Students’
Learning in College
6.Students have 12
or more years of
neural networks
for how “school”
and “learning” are
supposed to be.
Changing these
beliefs will not
happen over night. .
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Seven Keys to Facilitating Students’
Learning in College
7. We teach much
more than just the
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learning is a
social/emotional
process as well.
(John Bransford, How People Learn,
2000)
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What do we mean when we say
someone has learned?
Learning is a
change in the
neuro-patterns
of the brain
(Ratey, 2002)
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Definition of Learning
Robert Bjork, UCLA, Memory and Metamemory
The ability to use information after
significant periods of disuse
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The Brain and Learning
“Use it or lose it” Is
the corollary:
Major Elements
1. Engaging students in first hand learning.