Week 3: Learning Science Principles by

Learning Principle 5: What Motivates Students to Learn?

a02300037 — 2024-05-22 20:01:31 UTC

I found this principle really interesting because it involves a focus on how a student understands learning and their own mind.

Rather than just trying to help them master content, working on motivation allows a teacher to encourage self confidence and goal-setting skills.

Prof. KM: Woot! Group #4

a02231780 — 2024-05-23 16:33:54 UTC

Professor K-If for some reason it isn't posting your name, please add it in the comments or start your post off with your name! There's been some issues in other Padlets... because that's the reality of tech, right?!? LOL!

Learning Science Principle 3: How do students solve problems?

kayehamiltonenby — 2024-05-23 19:23:54 UTC

For students to understand problem-solving, they must understand what they're doing wrong in homework assignments. If I grade their sewing projects and just take off a couple of points without telling them why they don't know how to improve their sewing skill for the future. But explaining to them what part of their sewing project they did wrong, explaining to them that their minds aren't straight enough or that they did this technique incorrectly, and including a video or an explanation of how to do that technique correctly will help them learn how to problem solve on their next project.

Learning Principle 2: How do students learn and retain new information.

kaydeedeto07 — 2024-05-24 02:02:10 UTC

I found this principle interesting because a lot of the time, we get frustrated when a student just isn't remembering what we went over yesterday. We've went through it time and time again, but you're still lost? What am I doing wrong?

I liked that part of the lesson was that, while we need to incorporate continual practice for students to grasp a skill long term, drill and kill is not always the best way to help them retain information, and it won't get students over a plateau. One important part of retaining information is that we need a base for the new information. We need to think of the base knowledge that a student is going to need to be able to comprehend the concept we are teaching. Another way to help students retain information would be to give them a song, story, or mnemonic that would help them to hold onto that knowledge. When I was in elementary school, we were just supposed to memorize our multiplication facts. It wasn't until I started working in an elementary where we use songs to help students with their facts that I knew every fact off the top of my head. The drill and kill didn't work for me, but the songs years later did!

Learning Science Principle 6: What are common misconceptions about how students think and learn?

a02394090 — 2024-05-27 03:15:32 UTC

With this principle I really found this interesting how they talk about multitasking and how the expectation are that they can do it because they say that it helps their brain be more active while in reality they can’t and it tells you that it more effectively that single-tasking is more helpful on students for them to understand the topic and keep the conversation going if there put in a group discussion. And other thing that was interesting was most believe that learning happen when the students are passively engaged or receiving information but in reality an active engagement and critical thinking help students learn in a deep understanding and students learn better while discussing with their peers- Jaime