2. OVERVIEW OF THE PRESENTATION
We will discuss
• what is active learning
• why use active learning
• What are active learning
strategies
• role of teacher in active learning
3. WHAT IS ACTIVE LEARNING?
• There are various definitions by
researchers and educators to describe
active learning
• Let’s first discuss what definitions we
have for active learning...
4. TWO BASIC ASSUMPTIONS
1) that learning is by nature an
active endeavor, and
2) that different people learn in
different ways
5. PUTTING IT SIMPLY…
• What I hear, I forget (Lecture approach)
• What I see, I remember (Demonstration)
• What I do, I understand (hands-on/ learner
center)
6. MODIFIED BY SILBERMAN (1996)
• What I hear, I forget.
• What I hear and see, I remember a
little.
• What I hear, see, and ask questions
about or discuss with someone else, I
begin to understand.
• What I hear, see, discuss, and do, I
acquire knowledge and skill.
• What I teach another, I master
7. WHAT IS ACTIVE LEARNING?
• Learning in which students, “by acting
on objects and interacting with other
people, ideas, and events, construct
new understanding”
(Luckner & Nadler, 1997, p13)
• “Learning is conceived of as
something a learner does, not
something that is done to a learner.”
(Johnson, Johnson, & Smith, 1991, p7)
8. GOAL OF ACTIVE LEARNING
Students will:
• construct their own knowledge about
a subject area
• discover relationships that exist
among items of information
• organize subject matter themselves
so that it is meaningful
9. WHY ACTIVE LEARNING?
• Simply, it is a more effective learning
approach and one that is more long-
term
• Learning in the information age
demands students to develop a
process for encountering new
information
• “The transmission model of teaching
fails to prepare individuals for the
future”
10. COMPARE/CONTRAST
Passive Learning
• poorer retention
• lower-order thinking
• teacher-centred: same
info/same pace
• lower attention-level
• student isolation
• emphasis on memorization
Active Learning
• better retention
• higher-order thinking
• student-centred: prior
knowledge and pacing
• greater student
attention
- students involved
• encourages
collaboration
• emphasis on process
11. WHAT ARE SOME ACTIVE LEARNING
TECHNIQUES/ STRATEGIES?
12. • Questioning answering
• Story telling
• Rhymes
• Role play
• Picture discussion
• Riddles
• Jokes
• Quiz
• Games
• Drawings
• Webs
• Projects
• Panel discussions
• Field Trips
• Guest Speaker
