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Explore how students teaching fellow classmates computer skills enhances learning outcomes. Engage in learner-centered teaching approaches for better skill acquisition and collaboration. Discover the benefits beyond skill acquisition through student-led teaching activities.
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Students Teaching Each Other Why it works!
Learner-Centered Learning • An activity, in which students each teach their fellow students a specific computer skill. • Everyone learns the skill better, while also achieving the Learning Outcomes of the course.
Layne Bishop Teaching his fellow classmates how to complete a CountIF Function in Microsoft Excel
Learner-Centered Teaching Maryellen Weimer – Author of Learner-Center Teaching Five characteristics of learner-centered teaching • Engages students in the hard, messy work of learning. • Teaching includes explicit skill instruction. • Encourages students to reflect on what they are learning and how they are learning it. • Teaching motivates students by giving them some control over learning processes. • Teaching encourages collaboration.
One Characteristic: “Engage students in the hard, messy work of learning.” • Select a skill from four lists of MOS Skills • Learn how to complete the skill • Prepare a file to use in teaching classmates • Provide file to teacher – Uploaded into Canvas • Assignment Instructions and Rubric
Added Benefits (Besides Learning the Skill) • “The more students discover the less the teacher has to cover” • Different voice • “Getting to know you” – my collaboration with individual students • “Getting to know each other” – learning names and interests • New methods to complete tasks • Repetition of skills