Motivational Learning Jaron Ekers EXP105: Personal Dimensions of Education Prof. Katherine Myers January 25‚ 2013 Contexts that Motivate Learning. Motivational learning can be broken into four contexts. Those contexts are: Practical‚ Personal‚ Experiential‚ and Idealistic. The practical context of learning would be learning something because you know in advance it will benefit you. The personal context of learning would be learning something
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LEARNING DISABILITIES Learning disabilities‚ or learning disorders‚ are an umbrella term for a wide variety of learning problems. A learning disability is not a problem with intelligence or motivation. Kids with learning disabilities aren’t lazy or dumb. In fact‚ most are just as smart as everyone else. Their brains are simply wired differently. The most common types of learning disabilities involve problems with reading‚ writing‚ math‚ reasoning‚ listening and speaking. These are heterogeneous
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Learning style is the way human beings take in new and/or difficult information‚ how they process‚ store and retrieve it. (Prashnig‚ B: Debating Learning Styles) Having studied a small number of learning styles I will evaluate my own personal learning style and how I can use this through the next three years of my life at Bucks New University. I will look at the most popular theories in use today and their value in today’s world. The theory of individual learning styles began in the 1970’s and
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Learning Styles Essay There are many learning styles‚ but social attracts me the best because my better grades reflect off learning verbally. Verbal communication helps me as long as its not a lecture‚ but a group discussion. Learning new styles with pictures or diagrams is a another style I enjoy as long as we talk about the picture/diagram. I can understand long lectures if the teacher has the outline of the notes on the board as he talks about the lesson. My english high school instructor’s
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Planning For Assessment in Learning Assignment Arts education encourages individual‚ creative responses and needs an appropriate assessment methodology that genuinely reflects the expressive and creative dimensions of art. The aesthetic qualities and understandings that learners’ bring to their work are a valued and important dimension of the art experience (Ross‚ et al 1983: p10). The conception of a fair valid‚ reliable and inclusive assessment tool was motivated by my own reflective teaching
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things; other people learn by reading about things; others learn by listening to people talk about things. Which of these methods of learning is best for you? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice. | Deadline: | NO 22‚ 2012 | Methods of learning are a major concern for students‚ pupils and their parents. Some people believe that they prefer learning by listening to people talk about things as well as reading about things. While others claim that doing things is the best way for
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The Process of Learning Think back to the time you were just a little kid learning to read and write: have you ever thought about how difficult this was? Well‚ imagine not being able to learn these skills not because you were mentally incapable but because the law prohibited you from learning. This is exactly what happened to Frederick Douglass. Many times we take these skills for granted even though others have struggled with barriers we are not faced with today. Although Frederick Douglass took
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ill look at how my role as a mentor can facilitate learning and promote effective assessment in practice and also explore my role to support the students who are failing. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC 2008a)‚ defines “the role of a mentor as someone who facilitates learning‚ supervises and assesses learners in practice setting.” The mentor is a key support to students in practice‚ this is where students apply their knowledge‚ learn key skills and achieve the required competence for registration
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Date Name Position Company Address State Postcode ACS Project Report Form Australian Computer Society Skills Assessment 1 July 2012 The ACS Project Report Form is required for all Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) Applications Information about the Areas of Knowledge After studying the ACS Key Areas of Knowledge document‚ tick those areas of knowledge that you believe you have learned from your experience. Please Note: None of the areas are mandatory. Applicants will
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Reflection on my learning styles Learning styles are the different ways people learn and how they approach information. Everyone learn in their own specific way‚ although we all share some similarities in the way we learn‚ be it patterns‚ technique‚ preferences etc. One theorist called David Kolb published his learning styles in 1984. Kolb created a four stage learning style called ’The experiential learning style’. This includes: Concrete Experience (doing/having an experience)‚ Reflective Observation
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