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"Rather than abstracting ideas in rules that are memorized

and then applied to other canned problems, learning

should be embedded in real life, useful contexts for learners

to practice using those ideas."

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People naturally work together to learn.

People naturally like see know others opinions.

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The old saying says, "To teach is to learn twice." If you want your students to understand what they have accomplished, try to get them to articulate what they have just learned. If a student can teach what he/she learned to a classmate, you can be confident that your student truly understands the material.

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"Humans naturally work together in learning and knowledge-building communities, exploiting each others’ skills and appropriating each others’ knowledge in order to solve problems and perform tasks."

It is human nature for students to learn while working in groups so teachers must give them the opportunity to do so in class.

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-Relate information being taught to real life situations so students can relate to the information better

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Naturally people learn by doing.

People form their first thoughts, by thinking how to.

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-Teahcers do a good job at stripping information from textbooks to make it easier to understand for the class.

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We expect students to do so much

independent work at such a young age...

Why not use more group learning activities/projects?

Students need to learn how to collaborate with each other.

They can see that everyone has different ideas and

that there is more than one way to solve a problem.

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"The students learned to understand the ideas only as algorithmic procedures outside of any context, so they have no idea how to apply the ideas to real-world contexts."

This quote from the article is talking about how a physics course. It is imperative that students understand how what they are learning applies to the real world. Otherwise what is the point?

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Working with others effectively is one of the most difficult yet important skills to learn. To me it is important that students begin to learn this process at a very early age. By creating a classroom environment where students work together to meet learning goals, it is more likely to be a successful classroom in which students can cooperate to encourage each other to meet goals.

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When learners are actively and willfully trying to achieve a cognitive goal (Scardamalia & Bereiter, 1993/1994), they

think and learn more because they are fulfilling an intention.

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Conversation should be encouraged because it is the most natural way of making meaning.

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We take the meaning out of learning when we insist on generalizing it.

Students can learn math and physics through sports instead of some general

algorithm in a textbook. Let them see the effects of gravity on a ball and

how using excess force will make a ball go faster.

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"Before playing sandlot baseball, do kids subject themselves to lectures

and multiple-choice examinations about the theory of games, the aerodynamics of orbs, and vector forces applied to them? No! They start swinging the bat and chasing fly balls, and they negotiate the rules as they play the game."

It is so important for students have a tactile experience while learning and have an active learning experience.

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Students should set goals in their learning and work to reach them. If specific goals are set and met by students, they will understand the importance of goals and how good it feels to complete them!

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Learn the lesson that the activity has taught.

Being confused/puzzled is a good thing; it makes students think.

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Learners working in groups must socially negotiate a common understanding of the task and the methods they will use to accomplish it.

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Technology needs to engage learners in articulating and representing their understanding, not the teacher's.

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Using social media, google docs, and many of the technology tools we have learned about students can learn from each other and share their learning goals. This also makes sure the collaboration is appropriate.

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"When learners are actively and willfully trying to achieve a cognitive goal (Scardamalia & Bereiter, 1993/1994), they think and learn more because they are fulfilling an intention."

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This is to me the most exciting way to learn!

When students are learning by doing, it is the

most likely to successfully stick with them.

Students have such high levels of energy and

it's great to get them up and moving, especially

if they are learning at the same time!

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All human behavior is goal directed.

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Students learn more effectively when they are working together.

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Learning is a natural, adaptive human process.

...humans interact with their environment and manipulate the objects, observing the effects of their interventions and constructing their own interpretations of the phenomena and the results of their manipulations.

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Meaningful learning begins when new experiences provide a discrepancy between what learners observe and what they understand.

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Students don't always need to be lectured about what to do in order to learn something.

They need to get up and actually learn! A good example would be if your class was studying characteristics

of plants, they don't need to see just pictures! They should go on a field trip to a botanical garden or

a greenhouse.

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You can't expect to learn simply by TALKING about doing something all the time, and preparing your students for the "real world". You have to actually go out into the real world and do hands on tasks with them if you want them to be successful.

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Students who are in science classes observe what is going on in their environment. They will begin questioning what they see, and they will want to learn more. This is constructive learning as they decide what they want to learn and build off prior knowledge.

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Using technology (to research or problem solveallows students to think critically and learn intentionally.

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It is essential that students articulate what they have accomplished and reflect on their activity and observations to learn the lessons that the activity was trying to teach.

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-Most lessons taught in schools focus on generalprinciples or theories that may be used to explain phenomena that we experience. How-ever, teachers and professors remove those ideas from their natural contexts in order tobe able to cover the curriculum more efficiently.

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Active learning requires meaningful tasks.

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Humans naturally work together in learning and knowledge-building communities.

Collaboration most often requires conversation among participants.
Conversation should be encouraged because it is the most natural way of making meaning.

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Students should be engaged in their learning at all times.

Getting up, moving around the class, and being hands-on will keep

them engaged.

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Blogging with a topic he/she is interested in.

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Students set up learning goals themselves!

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Baking with an expert!