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Week 12: What is learning? How can learning be best effectuated by a teacher?
To commemorate the final week of blogging for Inst 6325, I went back to my answer the first week of class to “What is Learning?” I gave the dictionary definition, which I still think is excellent, and also said the following:
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I've had to reflect a lot this semester, in a variety of classes, what learning is. I guess that by answering the same question over and over, we do reach a more concrete definition that we can then reach for as we design instruction. By figuring out what learning is, we are far more likely to make sure it happens in our lessons.
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Week 10: What is learning? How can it be best effectuated by the teacher?
As I've been in an adult learning class this week, I've realized that the definition of learning varies depending on the age-level of the students. Learning to a small child might be accumulating information, but the older a student gets, the more learning is a process that changes behavior or improves life for the learner.
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Submitted by Jill Mason on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 1:40pm
Week 8: What is learning? How can learning be best effectuated by a teacher?
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