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Learning Preferences

Prepared by RZP for RRCWinter, 2014CAE - CI

Reflect

See

Create

Hear

Discuss

Photos courtesy of RZP and ClipArtImages courtesy of ClipArt

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Learning AidsReflection

Mind Maps

Mnemonics

Podcasts

Discussion

Presentation based on readings of the following authors among others (Dec.2013):Dr. Jerome S. Bruner: http://www.goodreads.com/author/list/426909.Jerome_S_Bruner Dr. Richard M. Felder: http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Papers/Education_Papers.htmlDr. Dr. Olenka Bilash : http://www.educ.ualberta.ca/staff/olenka.bilash/best%20of%20bilash/bloomstaxonomy.html UNESCO (Paris IBE): http://www.ibe.unesco.org/publications/ThinkersPdf/vygotske.pdf

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Processes

PerceptionSensation

Motivation

Transportinginformation from outside

Interpretingselected informationto create meaning

Sources of reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Bruner http://www.simplypsychology.org/bruner.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_psychology

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ModalityPerception

Sensation

Motivation

Transporting

Interpreting

Memory

Retaining

StylesActive/reflective

Sensing/intuitive

Visual/verbal

Sequential/globalSource for learning styles information:http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.htmlhttp://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSpage.html Courtesy of Dr. Richard M. Felder (email from December 29, 2013 re: Learning Styles Inventory)

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ModalitiesSensory channels: visual, auditory, kinesthetic/tactile

SensingIntuitiveVisual VerbalSequentialGlobalActiveReflective

SightHearingTasteSmellTouch MovementBalanceTemperature

Senses Styles

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Modes of Representation

IconicVisual/spatial

EnactiveKinesthetic

Lear

ning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Brunerhttp://www.instructionaldesign.org/theories/constructivist.htmlhttp://bruners-stages.wikispaces.com/Bruner's+Stages+of+Representation

SymbolicSymbolic/abstract

Action-based

Image-based

Language-based

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Instructional Scaffolding

Adequate support to promote learning

Instruction organized as in Bloom’s understanding of knowledge acquisitionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructional_scaffolding http://www.toolsofthemind.org/philosophy/scaffolding/http://www.simplypsychology.org/Zone-of-Proximal-Development.html http://www.simplypsychology.org/bruner.html

Support is

removed

Support

is tailored

Strategies

Mastery

ModelingCoaching

Questions

Mind maps

Videos

outlines Podcasts

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Spiraling Curriculum

Each subject or skillis revisited in intervals

At a more sophisticatedlevel each time

Bruner, J. (1960). The Process of Education. Cambridge, MA: The President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeReference: http://gearup.ous.edu/sites/default/files/Research-Briefs/ResearchBriefSpiralCurriculum.pdf Image: https://www.google.ca/search?q=spiraling+clipart&espv

Reinforcing

Revisiting Layering

Contextualizing

Reconstructing

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Learning

Styles

Autonom

ous

strategie

sActive/reflectiveSensing/intuitiveSequential/globalVisual/verbal

QuestionsDiagramsMnemonicsTeamwork

References: http://www.ku-crl.org/sim/brochures/LSoverview.pdf Dr. Anna Uhl Chamot: http://www.pearsonlongman.com/primaryplace/pdf/teaching-learning-strategies.pdfChamot et al: http://www.nclrc.org/guides/HED/pdfs/full.pdf

Motivation

Attitude Aptitude

Knowledge Preference

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Learning Preferences

Prepared by RZP for RRCWinter, 2014CAE - CI

Reflection

Mind Maps

Mnemonics

Podcasts

Discussion

Thank you!

Presentation based on readings of the following authors among others (Dec.2013):Dr. Jerome S. Bruner: http://www.goodreads.com/author/list/426909.Jerome_S_Bruner Dr. Richard M. Felder: http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Papers/Education_Papers.htmlDr. Dr. Olenka Bilash : http://www.educ.ualberta.ca/staff/olenka.bilash/best%20of%20bilash/bloomstaxonomy.html UNESCO (Paris IBE): http://www.ibe.unesco.org/publications/ThinkersPdf/vygotske.pdf