I found that I agreed with a great deal of the points throughout this week’s selection of Learning Resources. By first ascertaining in depth examples of self-directed learning, I quickly identified aspects discussed in both my personal and professional practices. By personally relating to this type of learning, it is my opinion I can better enable my students to become self-directed learners. To have a community of learners you must first build a supportive creative thinking environment by knowing the content that you teach and having rich technology based lessons. This type of environment is the perfect environment for self-directed learning as described by Dr. Katherine Cennamo.
In the video presentations Dr. Katherine Cennamo breaks down the characteristics of self-directed learning. She continues by using the acronym GAME that simply states these characteristics such as G for goal. Do you begin a task with a goal in mind? A for assess along the way?
(LAUREATE, 2010a) And so forth. These steps are steps that I do when I try and tackle a new task and when I am teaching my students. I constantly do both formal and informal assessments of my students to keep a check of both their understanding and their interest.
The discussions continued into the area of technology in the classroom and self-directed learning being very beneficial to staying abreast of changes and I agree. By constantly moving forward with learning through trial and error, both myself and my students move forward and show greater growth, which promotes the strengths of the students learning.
A question I was left with is…do more kinesthetic learners tend to lean toward self-directed learning? Just a thought.
Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2010a). [Webcast]. Promoting self-directed learning with technology. Baltimore: Author.
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