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What is learning?

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.

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What is learning?

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  1. What is learning?

  2. “A relatively permanent change in behaviour that results from practice” “A meaning-making process”

  3. Does what you teach translate into what your learners learn?

  4. ATHERTON J S (2009) What is learning? http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/whatlearn.htm

  5. Motivation to learn Maslow’s hierarchy of needs ATHERTON J S (2009) Motivation http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/motivation.htm

  6. Note down examples of: • Questions you ask your learners • The purpose of each of these questions

  7. 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 Surface v deep learning Reece & Walker (2003) Teaching, training and learning

  8. Bloom’s Taxonomy • Classify forms and levels of learning • Identifies three domains of learning • Cognitive (Knowledge) • Affective (Attitude) • Psycho-motor (Skills)

  9. 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

  10. Bloom’s Taxonomy – effective questioning Pair work • Assign the questions to the appropriate level of Bloom’s taxonomy • Review the questions you habitually use

  11. Memory ATHERTON J S (2009) Memory http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/memory.htm

  12. Triggering the memory • 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

  13. Learning cycle (Kolb)

  14. 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

  15. Active learning “Active learning? You must be joking, there’s not time for entertainment with all this content to cover.”

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