Technology Integration 101 – Generative or Active Learning Method of Teaching …
engages learners in activities that provide them with opportunities to mentally play with information and create a personal understanding of the subject matter being learned.
Definition / Attributes Generative or Active Learning Method of Teaching
This is a hands-on – minds-on teaching and learning approach that engages learners actively in the learning process to generate knowledge by forming mental connections between concepts. The two types of generative or active activities include: (1) activities in which learners generate organizational relationships (titles, headings, questions, objectives, summaries, graphs, tables, and main ideas) and (2) activities in which learners generate integrated relationships between what the they see, hear, or read and memory (demonstrations, metaphors, analogies, examples, pictures, applications, interpretations, paraphrases, inferences).
How can the technology-based support . . . Generative or Active Learning Method of Teaching?
– Site elements provide students with images, animated models, demonstrations, or applications that enable them to draw relationships between new concepts and prerequisite information.
– Site elements can function to trigger discussion about concepts.
– Organized Sites can provide students with web-based simulations that they can manipulate to learn concepts.
– Organized Sites can provide students with real-time databases they can use to interpret, make inferences, or predictions.
– Network elements can function to promote inquiry and discussion about the relationship between ideas and concepts.
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