This document discusses different types of learning environments, including learner-centered, knowledge-centered, assessment-centered, and community-centered environments. A learner-centered environment focuses on students' prior knowledge and makes lessons relevant to their lives. A knowledge-centered environment focuses on teaching core concepts and organizing lessons to maximize understanding. Assessment-centered environments use formative and summative assessments to improve teaching and measure learning. Community-centered environments foster collaboration and lifelong learning by creating a classroom community.
2. A learning environment is a diverse platform where users
engage and interact to learn new skills.
While learners can learn in an array of settings, the term
refers to the more preferred and accurate alternative to
the traditional classroom.
3. 1. Careful attention to the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and beliefs
that learners bring to the educational setting.
2. Teaching practices were “culturally responsive, appropriate,
compatible, and relevant”.
3. A learner-centered classroom seeks to avoid the dilemma of
undiscovered thinking by:
Presenting students with subject-related problems or challenges
Soliciting their thoughts and ideas about how to solve the problem
Asking them to explain the reasons behind their thinking
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5. 1. Intersect with learner-centered environments when instruction
begins with a concern for students’ initial preconceptions about the
subject matter.
2. Focus on the kinds of information and activities that help students
develop an understanding of disciplines.
3. An instructor who wants to create a knowledge-centered learning
environment throughout a course will need to answer three main
questions about the course’s content:
What will be taught?
How will it be taught?
How will it be organized?
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7. The key principles of assessment are that they should provide
opportunities for feedback and revision and that what is assessed
must be congruent with one’s learning goals.
Formative assessment involves the use of assessments (usually
administered in the context of the classroom) as sources of feedback
to improve teaching and learning.
Summative assessment measures what students have learned at the
end of some set of learning activities.
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9. Refer to several aspects of community, including the classroom as a
community, the school as a community, and the degree to which
students, teachers, and administers feel connected to the larger
community of homes, businesses, states, the nation, and even the
world.
The foundation of a community-centered learning environment is
the fostering of explicit values or norms that promote lifelong
learning. An example would be students feeling confident to ask
questions and not being afraid to say, “I don’t know.”
10. Bransford, Vye, and Bateman (2002) note several likely positive
outcomes for students in classrooms with strong communities. These
students:
Are willing to allow theirs peers to see that they do not know
everything
Improve their abilities to solve complex problems
Focus their learning goals on mastering the content rather than on
learning the material for the sake of a good grade
