{"id":62808,"date":"2018-03-03T10:06:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T15:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=62808"},"modified":"2018-03-03T10:24:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T15:24:28","slug":"reflections-on-deeper-thinking-about-active-learning-weimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/03\/03\/reflections-on-deeper-thinking-about-active-learning-weimer\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on “Deeper Thinking about Active Learning” [Weimer]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deeper Thinking about Active Learning<\/strong> <\/a>— from facultyfocus.com by Maryellen Weimer<\/p>\n

Excerpts (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I keep worrying that we\u2019re missing the boat with active learning. Here\u2019s why. First, active learning isn\u2019t about activity for the sake of activity. I fear we\u2019ve gotten too fixated on the activity and aren\u2019t as focused as we should be on the learning. We\u2019re still obsessed with collecting teaching techniques\u2014all those strategies, gimmicks, approaches, and things we can do to get students engaged. But what kind of engagement does the activity promote? Does it pique student interest, make them think, result in learning, and cultivate a desire to know more? Or is it more about keeping basically bored students busy?
\n…
\nTeaching techniques are an essential part of any active learning endeavor. But they aren\u2019t the center or the most important part of student learning experiences. Techniques provide the framework, the structure, the context. What really matters is what we put in the structure\u2014what students are thinking about and sharing when they\u2019re pairing.<\/strong>
\n<\/span>…
\nLarry recommends selecting things that confront students with their ignorance\u2014<\/span>so they see clearly what they don\u2019t know, can\u2019t understand, don\u2019t see the reason for, or can\u2019t make work. When you\u2019ve got an artifact in front of you, there\u2019s motivation to deal with it.<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Think for a moment of what happens when you give most any of those millennial students a new electronic device. Usually, without the instructions and no attention to technique, they start playing with it to see how it works. Do they mess up and make mistakes? Do they give up or worry about looking stupid? Does active learning in our courses look anything like this?<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

From DSC:<\/span><\/em>
\nThis article reminds me of a great conversation that I had with an elderly gentleman a few months ago. He’s still involved with instructional design, after several decades of related work experiences. <\/span>He said to me that learners need to truly ***engage<\/em>*** with the content to make it meaningful to them<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n

And then I read a quote from Robert Greenleaf’s book, On Becoming a Servant Leader<\/em> (p. 304), that said:<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing is meaningful to me until it is related to my own experience.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deeper Thinking about Active Learning — from facultyfocus.com by Maryellen Weimer Excerpts (emphasis DSC): I keep worrying that we\u2019re missing the boat with active learning. Here\u2019s why. First, active learning isn\u2019t about activity for the sake of activity. I fear we\u2019ve gotten too fixated on the activity and aren\u2019t as focused as we should be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[472,322,394,127,115,302,260,72,141,3,419,119,102,7,79,173,50,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-active-learning","category-adjunct-faculty","category-attention","category-collaboration","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-content-development-aggregation-repositories","category-daniel-s-christian","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-instructional-design","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-liberal-arts","category-pedagogy","category-teaching-learning","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62808"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62813,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62808\/revisions\/62813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}