LESSON 2B. CREATIVE WAYS OF EFFECTIVE LEARNING
PLAN OF THE PRACTICAL LESSON
-10 minutes
Introduction
Effective learning
The purpose of this paper is to lay out key elements of learning, to define effective learning, and to consider how it may be promoted in classrooms. What is Learning? There have been many definitions of learning: most leave teacher readers disappointed. The following definition draws out key elements, which have individual and social implications for teachers and schools: “Learning … that reflective activity which enables the learner to draw upon previous experience to understand and evaluate the present, so as to shape future action and formulate new knowledge”1 Features highlighted by this definition include: • an active process in which the learner relates new experience to existing meaning, and may accommodate and assimilate new ideas • past, present and future are connected, although a linear connection is not assumed: un-learning and re-learning may be implied • the process is influenced by the use to which learning is to be put: how the learning informs action in future situations is vital. The above definition stands in contrast to prevalent views of learning, which imply that it is a passive process of knowledge acquisition, with predictable and measurable outcomes. Definitions do not cover everything. The above does not specify prior conditions (for example how learners select what to learn, the beliefs which the learner brings) or the context in which learning happens. Indeed, this definition does not refer to other people in the context: teachers, facilitators, peers, etc
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Task 1
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