Identify Creative Learning Approaches.

.for a learning Programme

Acknowledging de Bono:
Imagine a ship at sea that is in trouble. The lights keep going out. The engine is faltering. The rudder is unreliable. The first mate is drunk. The crew is very demoralised. The service is appalling. The passengers on the ship are very dissatisfied.

Then a new captain and first mate are flown in by helicopter

Everything changes. Crew morale is lifted Service improves The engine is fixed The rudder is fixed The lights stay on Everything seems fine.

 But the ship is still headed in the wrong direction

New directions driving creative teaching

The movement towards constructivism An appreciation of learning styles ( sensory) An understanding that learners have different information processing styles ( styles for constructing learning) Availability of technology to enable the overall goal of personalization of the learning experience

Benefits of Creative Learning

Greater Learner Independence Learner Centred Active Learning Learner Involvement Learner Motivation Re-inforcement of Learning Learner Autonomy Self-directed Learner

Vintage of the clasical educational model

The Universities of Bologna ( Italy), Paris ( France) and Oxford ( England) were all created about 400 years before Gutenbergs printing press was created. Schools are seen largely as preparation platforms for higher education Is that a good model for a post internet post WTO post mobile phone world?

Saya, the robot teacher launched in Japan

Pupils in Japan have been given lessons by the worlds first robot teacher. The humanoid named Saya is multilingual, can do roll calls and set tasks from text books.

Saya, the robot teacher launched in Japan

She has a latex face, modelled on a university student, controlled by 18 motors to create expressions including happiness, surprise, fear, disgust, sadness and even anger.

Waiting for recognition

Saya will start teaching full-time after passing a trial term at a Tokyo primary. Her creator, science professor Hiroshi Kobayashi, had been working on the robot for 15 years. The original, named Pikarin, had a metal head with exposed wires and levers.

This is it.Saya

Service conditions ?
Salary, tenure and other benefits have yet to be decided, but perhaps a special type of teachers union may well be in the works!

Some other interesting developments

Digital Socrates Future Computers

Future PCs ???

The future Desktop

This pen sort of instrument produces both the monitor as well as the keyboard on flat surfaces from where you can just carry out the normal operations you do on your desktop.

With Bluetooth technology... See the forthcoming computers

within our pockets

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Wearable computers

Smart USB disks: an alternative to laptops

Long years ago we had floppy disks Then came CD-ROM DVD for more storage Universal Serial Bus (USB) stick Sandisk, Transcend, others 16GB for US$ 30

The web is just 5000 days old

100 billion clicks per day 55 trillion links 2 million e-mails per second Uses 5% of the global electricity on the planet Total traffic about 7 Terrabytes per second 246 Hexabytes Storage

What could be happening in the next 5000 days ?

Semantic web Natural language processing Gestures Voice Touch Superior machine intelligence Robots

What makes a teacher great ?

Bill Gates on www.ted.com

Our approach : Ostrich- like

What affects the rest of the world will not impact us We are different

Encouraging constructivism
Learners learn by fitting new information to what they already know Thus prior knowledge, beliefs and attitudes of the learners plays an important role Collaborative learning environments and contexts for team-work must be created The key notion in this new "constructivist theory" is that people learn best by actively constructing their own understanding.

12 Principles of Constructivist teaching

1. "The brain is a parallel processor". It simultaneously processes many different types of information, including thoughts, emotions, and cultural knowledge. Effective teaching employs a variety of learning strategies. 2. "Learning engages the entire physiology". Teachers can't address just the intellect. 3. "The search for meaning is innate". Effective teaching recognizes that meaning is personal and unique, and that students' understandings are based on their own unique experiences.

Constructivist teaching
4. "The search for meaning occurs through 'patterning' ". Effective teaching connects isolated ideas and information with global concepts and themes. 5. "Emotions are critical to patterning". Learning is influenced by emotions, feelings, and attitudes.

6. "The brain processes parts and wholes simultaneously". People have difficulty learning when either parts or wholes are overlooked.
7. "Learning involves both focused attention and peripheral perception". Learning is influenced by the environment, culture, and climate.

Constructivist teaching
8. 9. "Learning always involves conscious and unconscious processes". Students need time to process 'how' as well as 'what' they've learned. "We have at least two different types of memory: a spatial memory system, and a set of systems for rote learning". Teaching that heavily emphasizes rote learning does not promote spatial, experienced learning and can inhibit understanding. "We understand and remember best when facts and skills are embedded in natural, spatial memory". Experiential learning is most effective. "Learning is enhanced by challenge and inhibited by threat". The classroom climate should be challenging but not threatening to students. "Each brain is unique". Teaching must be multifaceted to allow students to express preferences.

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Pedagogies based on constructivism

Learning is accomplished best using a hands-on approach Learners learn by experimentation, and not by being told what will happen. They are left to make their own inferences, discoveries and conclusions. It emphasizes that learning is not an "all or nothing" process but that students learn the new information that is presented to them by building upon knowledge that they already possess. It is therefore a process of continuous improvement.

Teacher's Role in Pedagogies based on constructivism

To not only observe and assess but also engage with the students while they are completing activities, wondering aloud and posing questions to the students for promotion of reasoning.
To intervene when the conflicts arise; however, they simply facilitate the students' resolutions and self-regulation, with an emphasis on the conflict being the students' and that they must figure things out for themselves. To encourage the students to write or draw stories of their own, or by having the students reenact a story that they may know well; both activities encourage the students to conceive themselves as reader and writers.

Connectivism
At its heart, connectivism is the thesis that knowledge is distributed across a network of connections, and therefore that learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those networks.

Some examples of Scientific Creativity:

The periodic Table Models of the atomic structure
The double helix model of the DNA

Moving from a mere lecture to the creation of a learning event

It is not enough that a lecture was taken The learning transactions are more important Did learning take place? Did an interest in more learning take place? Did the learner learn how to learn?

 The answer is creative learning and teaching

Creating the Eureka moments..

Designed to lead to moments of enlightenment in which the cognitive conflicts in the minds of the learner are removed, and he exclaims wow, this is wonderfulI never knew thisisnt it fascinating...etc in a spirit similar to the Eureka moment of Archimedes

Multiple roles of a teacher

must be content expert, a diagnostician, a rescuer, a motivator, a patient communicator, a manager and leader, a student of human behavior.

Learning Styles
Verbal learners Visual learners Auditory learners Kinesthetic learners

The verbal Learner

They learn best with help of written and spoken explanation They have sensitivity to the meaning, sounds of words They enjoy story telling and creative writing They love reading

The verbal Learner..

They are capable of convincing others for their point of view They tend to think in words They do well with written assignments

The visual Learner

They remember best with the help of pictures, diagrams, flow-charts, time lines and demonstrations They enjoy creating visual patterns and need visual stimulation They are day dreamers They have talent for art

The visual Learner

They are more aware of objects, shapes and colours in the environment around them They are good in reading maps They tend to think in images and pictures

The auditory Learner

They enjoy playing instruments They learn easier if things are set to music They are able to discriminate between various sounds They enjoy talking to each other They require explanations of diagrams, graphs or maps

The kinesthetic Learner

They enjoy creative dramatics and dancing They like expressing themselves with movement and bodily actions They use gestures and physical movements to learn and solve problems

The kinesthetic Learner

They take frequent study breaks Though interacting with the space around them, they are able to remember and process the information They have keen sense of body awareness They find it difficult to sit for long periods of time

Learning Strategies for verbal learners

Take class notes on regular basis Learn the information in written form When information is presented in diagrams write out explanations for the information Write out key sentences and phrases to learn new information

Learning Strategies for verbal learners

When a problem involves a sequence of steps, write out in detail how to do each step Try to summarise the information to be learned While revising, always try to write answers or main points

Learning Strategies for visual learners

Use highlighter pens to highlight different kinds of information (colour code) when studying new information in your text-book Make flash cards of vocabulary words and concepts that need to be memorized. Limit the amount of information per card so that your mind can take the mental visual picture of the information

Learning Strategies for visual learners

Try to learn information with the help of diagrams, illustrations and flow charts Make and stick notes containing key words and concepts and place them in highly visible places Use computers to create tables and charts with graphics that help you understand and retain information

Learning Strategies for auditory learners

You learn best when information is presented in auditory oral language format When studying by yourself talk out loud to aid recall Tape record your lectures Create your own audio tapes by reading notebooks and textbook information

Learning Strategies for auditory learners

Reason out by talking out loud to yourself or with your study partner. To learn sequence of steps write them out in sentence form and then read them aloud. You should also read out loud information to be learned while standing in front of the mirror.

Learning Strategies for kinesthetic learners

They benefit from a laboratory setting where they can manipulate materials to learn new information. They learn best when physically engaged in a hands on activity. They should be walking back and forth with text-boks, notebooks or flash cards

Learning Strategies for kinesthetic learners

Participate in field visits to gain first hand information When reviewing new information copy or write key points. This helps to keep your hands busy. Make use of computers to re-inforce learning through the sense of touch.

The 5 fundamental Learning Styles

Apprentice Incidental Discovery Inductive Deductive

Apprentice
A building block approach for presenting concepts in a step by step procedural learning styles Basically needs to be spoon fed

Incidental
Based on events that trigger the learning experience. The events usually occur in a less formal context, and often assume a story format. Learners begin with an event that introduces a concept and provokes questions

Discovery
An inquiry method of learning in which students learn by doing, testing the boundaries of their own knowledge

Inductive
Learners are first introduced to a concept or a target principle using specific examples that pertain to a broader topic area

Deductive
Based on the discernments of trends through the presentation of data, simulations, graphs, charts or other data

Creating an engaged technology-enhanced learning experience

We are moving away from a mere (chalk and talk) and (spray and pray) lecture format to the creation of an interactive learning event

Managing a learning event

A properly managed learning event comprises a series of learning moments

Creative Learning Activities:

Research activities Games Case studies Discussion Debates Simulations Investigations Assignments Projects Group work Other Practical activities

Personalisation of the learning experience

Each such learning moment is unique to each learner and ICT enables its realisation Mindmaps Webquests Memes Mnemonics

Activities for a specific programme:

Identify programme outcomes Matching activities to desired outcomes Applying above approach to activities listed earlier to specific programmes

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