Today has been a day of unlearning, learning and relearning. I started the day thinking that Learning Environment (LE) is basically nothing more than classroom layouts, enhancing the physical environment around the learner, making sure it is conducive for learning. As such, just before I came, I wondered why it takes a week to learn all these!
As the day continued, i realised how much I need to unlearn what I thought I knew about the learning environment. LE encompasses not only the physical arena, it includes the e-world too! It is surprising to know that I need to assess, improve and manage the e-learning environment too. The classroom has gone global! I never saw blogging as a platform through which learning can take place. To me, it's simply a place where people share their personal journals in lieu of their dairy or PDA. So, today I learned to blog and start my very own personal blog on the web!
Going deeper, LE affects the Person, Personal Needs and Human behaviour. The challenge for instructors is to do the best we can to influence the learning environment so that learning can take place. To fully engage a learner, the instructor must take new initiatives to meet new learning demands. Learning takes place when the environment is Learning-centred, Knowledge-centred and Assessment-centred. I discover that we cannot have assessment for everything. We need to know the objectives: assessment "for learning" (improve) or "of learning" (proof).
New vocabs that I learned today:
As the day continued, i realised how much I need to unlearn what I thought I knew about the learning environment. LE encompasses not only the physical arena, it includes the e-world too! It is surprising to know that I need to assess, improve and manage the e-learning environment too. The classroom has gone global! I never saw blogging as a platform through which learning can take place. To me, it's simply a place where people share their personal journals in lieu of their dairy or PDA. So, today I learned to blog and start my very own personal blog on the web!
Going deeper, LE affects the Person, Personal Needs and Human behaviour. The challenge for instructors is to do the best we can to influence the learning environment so that learning can take place. To fully engage a learner, the instructor must take new initiatives to meet new learning demands. Learning takes place when the environment is Learning-centred, Knowledge-centred and Assessment-centred. I discover that we cannot have assessment for everything. We need to know the objectives: assessment "for learning" (improve) or "of learning" (proof).
New vocabs that I learned today:
- Paired Verbal Fluency
- Think Pair Share
- Think Pair Square
The above are methods that I can use in my training sessions. While I may have employed some of these methods during my own training sessions, I didn't know they had such fanciful names ;-p
A self discovery moment was when I was doing the Management profile in the learning environment. I was profiled as having a Commanding style and prefers to be in control when it comes to the learning environment. I need to learn how to develop strategies that would help me approach potential problems that may emerge as a result of my management profile.
Looking ahead, it is obvious there is so much that I do not know about LE. Today's overview had given me a foretaste of what's to come in the days ahead. I am excited. Let the learning begin!
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