Post on 01-Dec-2014
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Active Learning
What Is Active Learning?
Active Learning is student centered.
Students interact with lesson content via inquiry and exploration.
The classroom teacher facilitates, as students generate their own learning.
Why Active Learning?
Students retain more lesson content.
Students stay engaged.
Students become independent learners by taking ownership
of the process.
Students develop their social skills
by working collaboratively.
Active learning addresses many
different learning styles.
Active Learning Places Emphasis on
Critical Thinking Skills
Analysis Synthesis EvaluationApplication
of knowledge
Ways To Incorporate Active Learning in the Classroom
Think-pair-share Writing activities Brainstorming
Games Debates Small Group Activities
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Using Technology and the Internet
to Foster Active Learning
• Use of the Internet forces active learning.
• The Internet breaks down the barriers between school and the real world.
• Use of technology supports independent inquiry by allowing student access to many different data sources and media.
"People cannot learn by having information pressed into their brains.
Knowledge has to be sucked into the brain, not pushed in. First, one
must create a state of mind that craves knowledge, interest and
wonder. You can teach only by creating an urge to know.”
- Victor Weisskopf