2. “Knowledge is experience, everything else is just information.” We are surrounded by information artefacts – books, web-pages, hand-outs – but experience??? You can’t buy it, can’t swap it, can’t steal it, can’t down-load it, can’t plagiarise it. Experience belongs to YOU. Experience is PERSONAL. Learning is PERSONAL.
6. You change the inside of your head.BTW - there are no shortcuts.
7. Teaching Iteration Process Of “Transmission” Product (Knowledge, expertise, etc) Product (Interpretation, understanding, application of knowledge Person: Academic Professional Person: (The learner, their history & hinterland) Process (learning styles & preferences Interaction Learning Locating the Scholarship of Teaching (McNay & Culwick 2001)
17. Learning takes place through the active behaviour of the student: it is what he does that he learns, not what the teacher does. (R.W Tyler)
18. Constructivism – Learning is personal Each of us constructs – makes sense of – our own version of reality – our personal knowledge. Constructivism is the dominant “ism” in Education today It’s a creative process. It’s active – it isn’t passive.
19. Constructivism – Learning is personal Each of us constructs – makes sense of – our own version of reality – our personal knowledge. This explains why Educators (us!) want to achieve more active learning and self-directed learning with our students. It explains why harnessing students’ creativity is so effective in HE. It also explains why assessment is important, as a corrective check on wrong (constructed) learning.
