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