The ‘Learning Cycle is a simple concept at first, but more complex to implement in class. However, we will have a lot of ideas about different activities that we can engage in to help us use all phases of the ‘Learning Cycle’ to help our students learn. Why did I have you do so much with CE as a way to introduce a new subject? How do many of us typically present material like this? Students do a reading, probably in a textbook We review the reading, take questions, explain more of the theory or principle involved while students take notes If time, we give them an application or two to work on in class of the new ideas So, we typically start with AC Then do more AC This engages those students who like to learn from what phase of the ‘Learning Cycle’? Discourages students who like to learn from which phase of the ‘Learning Cycle’? Ignores which phases of the ‘Learning Cycle’? Internalizing learning requires both reflecting upon it and doing something with it [Note: adjust this to Active Experimentation if individual objectives for theme session seem to indicate that this would be more important.] Let’s take a few minutes and see if we can come up with 10 techniques to use to help students develop and use ‘Reflective Observation’ skills Discuss as necessary Post-test Everyone think for a couple of minutes about how we could do a post-test for this theme session, then we will build one as a group. Consider the type of post-test that uses both AC and AE.
The ‘Learning Cycle is a simple concept at first, but more complex to implement in class. However, we will have a lot of ideas about different activities that we can engage in to help us use all phases of the ‘Learning Cycle’ to help our students learn. Why did I have you do so much with CE as a way to introduce a new subject? How do many of us typically present material like this? Students do a reading, probably in a textbook We review the reading, take questions, explain more of the theory or principle involved while students take notes If time, we give them an application or two to work on in class of the new ideas So, we typically start with AC Then do more AC This engages those students who like to learn from what phase of the ‘Learning Cycle’? Discourages students who like to learn from which phase of the ‘Learning Cycle’? Ignores which phases of the ‘Learning Cycle’? Internalizing learning requires both reflecting upon it and doing something with it [Note: adjust this to Active Experimentation if individual objectives for theme session seem to indicate that this would be more important.] Let’s take a few minutes and see if we can come up with 10 techniques to use to help students develop and use ‘Reflective Observation’ skills Discuss as necessary Post-test Everyone think for a couple of minutes about how we could do a post-test for this theme session, then we will build one as a group. Consider the type of post-test that uses both AC and AE.