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 I have found stories to be a very effective method of teaching.  Stories allow us to look at things form a new angle and think from different perspectives as we put ourselves in the non-threatening shoes of a character rather that our own. This makes them great for encouraging analysis and eventually personal application.  During the past school year I used stories often as a method of teaching.  I taught the New Testament and its many parables.  It is interesting the different meaning that can be found in a parable among students based on their situation.

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Case-Based Learning is, perhaps, the learning theory that resonates the most with how I feel I learn myself.  The idea that learners can learn well through stories, or cases, told just in time makes sense to me.  I don't  usually spend time reading reference material or watching a video tutorial if it doesn't immediately affect my situation or something I'm trying to do.  I suspect that students are the same way.  They don't want to sit through something if they don't see the point, and they won't likely see the point unless they are facing a problem they can't otherwise solve.

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Each week we are asked to share what our definition of learning is.  Most weeks mine has been tweeked a little bit.  But this week, I don't think it has changed much.  My defintion of learning is: Anything that betters a person's life, and my opinions on who affects learning is: the teachers, parents, but mainly the students. 

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Learning is not memorizing some theories or formulas but operating knowledge you didn’t know before. Learning could be easy when you find right method and you are under correct instructions, learning could become more difficult when you are lack of motivation or you meet a bad teacher.

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If learning is understanding the world around us then learning by storytelling only makes sense. I taught my kids to ride a bike using stories about how I leaned to ride a bike and how they first learned to ride a tricycle.  So it is important for educators to be able to explain educational facts in the form of stories to help facilitate learning. This can be tough when you are trying to teach chemical equations or science facts. But a teacher today needs to be a edutainer if they are going to reach our students and storytelling is a necessary tool to do that.