The following are websites or articles that are resources for the learning process:
1. Brain Boosters For Your Kids - http://www.brain-based-learning.com/forteachers.htm
This website is geared for parents and teachers, but has good practical tips or ideas for all levels of learning for kids. It calls their methods “brain based learning”. There are links for articles and tips to help the children learn and classes to take and even get college credits for taking them. There is also a newsletter you can subscribe to with helpful ideas as well. There is even a link to contact Dr. wagner, the author and creator this website. One of the things I appreciate is that it also provides strategies for ADHD learners which is something that kids and adults struggle with.
The following is a sample of part of one of the articles that you can read online and it connects with the materials we have been reading in our class:
A Brain-based Learning Strategy that Works: 10 Ways to Improve Reading, Writing, and Just about Anything Else(for kids and for you too) http://www.brain-based-learning.com/articlemidlinecross.htm
Teachers emphasized rote memorization and copying. Laterlistening to lectures and taking notes. Some of us did prettywell with that method. Especially those of us who are left-braindominant. We even went on to college.Others, often very smart children, didn’t do so well. Theirbrains simply worked in a different way. Maybe they were right-brain dominant. Maybe they learned more efficiently usingkinesthetic skills.Researchers have recently discovered that whole-brain learning orbrain-based learning is not only a more efficient way of learningbut helps more kids learn.One the many features of brain-based learning involves usingboth the right side and the left side of the brain. Although noneof our kids is just left brain or just right brain, most of themhave a dominance. Few of us use both sides of our brain equally.
MaryJo Wagner, Ph.D.The Learning Doctor"Helping You Help Kids Learn"Sign up for the Brain Boosters newsletter to help your kids learnfaster and easier and at http://www.brainboostersforyourkids.com/
2. Using a Problem-Based Learning Approach to Teach an Intelligent Systems Course
By: Cheong, France. Journal of Information Technology Education, v7 p47-60 2008. (EJ807698)
This article is a study of problem-based learning (PBL) and not “problem-solving” learning. Typical “problem-solving” is when a student hears a lecture and then given a set of questions based on the information given. According to this article, the students are “expected to find the solutions to these questions based on the information given.” PBL focuses on the process “in which the learner actively constructs knowledge.” PBL is learning when the students are required to learn while they are trying to solve the problem that is presented to them. It is more about the process than it is where the instructor has the knowledge and dispense it. In this model, the instructor monitors the learning and is not concerned with a single right answer but with how the students “analyze the problem, gather information and generate and evaluate possible solutions.”
In this article, there are charts and helpful tips and methods to set up and follow this theory. It also includes ideas how to assess student work and to implement PBL. It coincides with our readings by showing how to establish meaning to the learning process and provide evidence of long term memory retention and retrieval.
3. Educational Psychology--Theory, Research, and Teaching: A 25-Year Retrospective
By: McInerney, Dennis M.. Educational Psychology, v25 n6 p585-599 Dec 2005. (EJ720952)
The title more than speaks for itself. This is an all inclusive look at educational psychology for the past two and half decades. This in-depth review is for those who are just learning about all the learning theories or wanting to catch up on past and recent changes. There are other theories in this review that we have not read about as well. Without being redundant and citing many concepts we have examined, this is still a good article to keep handy for the learning theories.
This website is geared for parents and teachers, but has good practical tips or ideas for all levels of learning for kids. It calls their methods “brain based learning”. There are links for articles and tips to help the children learn and classes to take and even get college credits for taking them. There is also a newsletter you can subscribe to with helpful ideas as well. There is even a link to contact Dr. wagner, the author and creator this website. One of the things I appreciate is that it also provides strategies for ADHD learners which is something that kids and adults struggle with.
The following is a sample of part of one of the articles that you can read online and it connects with the materials we have been reading in our class:
A Brain-based Learning Strategy that Works: 10 Ways to Improve Reading, Writing, and Just about Anything Else(for kids and for you too) http://www.brain-based-learning.com/articlemidlinecross.htm
Teachers emphasized rote memorization and copying. Laterlistening to lectures and taking notes. Some of us did prettywell with that method. Especially those of us who are left-braindominant. We even went on to college.Others, often very smart children, didn’t do so well. Theirbrains simply worked in a different way. Maybe they were right-brain dominant. Maybe they learned more efficiently usingkinesthetic skills.Researchers have recently discovered that whole-brain learning orbrain-based learning is not only a more efficient way of learningbut helps more kids learn.One the many features of brain-based learning involves usingboth the right side and the left side of the brain. Although noneof our kids is just left brain or just right brain, most of themhave a dominance. Few of us use both sides of our brain equally.
MaryJo Wagner, Ph.D.The Learning Doctor"Helping You Help Kids Learn"Sign up for the Brain Boosters newsletter to help your kids learnfaster and easier and at http://www.brainboostersforyourkids.com/
2. Using a Problem-Based Learning Approach to Teach an Intelligent Systems Course
By: Cheong, France. Journal of Information Technology Education, v7 p47-60 2008. (EJ807698)
This article is a study of problem-based learning (PBL) and not “problem-solving” learning. Typical “problem-solving” is when a student hears a lecture and then given a set of questions based on the information given. According to this article, the students are “expected to find the solutions to these questions based on the information given.” PBL focuses on the process “in which the learner actively constructs knowledge.” PBL is learning when the students are required to learn while they are trying to solve the problem that is presented to them. It is more about the process than it is where the instructor has the knowledge and dispense it. In this model, the instructor monitors the learning and is not concerned with a single right answer but with how the students “analyze the problem, gather information and generate and evaluate possible solutions.”
In this article, there are charts and helpful tips and methods to set up and follow this theory. It also includes ideas how to assess student work and to implement PBL. It coincides with our readings by showing how to establish meaning to the learning process and provide evidence of long term memory retention and retrieval.
3. Educational Psychology--Theory, Research, and Teaching: A 25-Year Retrospective
By: McInerney, Dennis M.. Educational Psychology, v25 n6 p585-599 Dec 2005. (EJ720952)
The title more than speaks for itself. This is an all inclusive look at educational psychology for the past two and half decades. This in-depth review is for those who are just learning about all the learning theories or wanting to catch up on past and recent changes. There are other theories in this review that we have not read about as well. Without being redundant and citing many concepts we have examined, this is still a good article to keep handy for the learning theories.
