1. An Approach to Independent Learning Ana Coelho – Agrupamento Cardoso Lopes – Amadora [email_address] Fernando Rui Campos – Agrupamento Cardoso Lopes – Amadora [email_address] Alzira Gorjão - Agrupamento Cardoso Lopes – Amadora [email_address] Dária Ferreira - Escola Básica de Santo António – Funchal [email_address] Comenius Meeting Funchal, 11 Feb. 2008
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Editor's Notes
interactive process: learner/teacher – the method asks for different pedagogical strategies – began in the 90ties, names like P. Candy, Biggs...
Depending on each own special abilities and interests, on each age group and class – some school subjects lead to certain activities, others to another type of actvs
They have to get used to see their own evolution in this process – usually they are very correct and realistic when they are doing their self-evaluation, even the youngsters
Not few, nor a lot of information, but a balanced one, allowing students to have the desire of knowing more about the subject – give them the appropriatte tools to do it
I see that with my blog’s class, for instance. They begin doing their work asking a lot of support at the beginning and in the 2nd year they are much more autonomous
Our job is finding the correct methods and activities for them to experience that in a dayly basis
All this lead to the ICT methods we have worked on – individually, HotPot, in group work, WebQst... And the ideal educational platform to make this available to our students is Moodle, bc it’s free, secure and easy to acess and function
Classroom, physical space arrangement– class routines - number of pupils – very different backgrounds – lack of means – “closed” timetables – staff used and comfortable in its own habits / our work not being valued by the society in general IN THIS PROJECT we must use all the pedagogical strategies we possibly find to develop our students’ abilities to be autonomous and responsable for their knowledge process