Developing Learning Activities | Origin: ED204
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Tomorrow's Learning Environment Today --> Developing Learning Activities
Post what you've learned about this topic and how you intend to apply it. Feel free to post questions and comments too.
This module reinforced the importance of transformational learning, where students reflect on their beliefs, values, and assumptions. I’ve learned that instructors must be active facilitators—building trust, asking critical questions, and guiding reflection—to truly support student growth.
An instructor-learner-centered approach is more effective than a purely learner-centered one because it fosters meaningful relationships and deeper engagement.
I plan to apply this by creating assignments that encourage self-reflection, promoting open dialogue, and building a supportive environment where students feel safe to explore and grow.
This module taught me the value of active and constructivist learning environments that engage students through real-world problems, social interaction, and student choice. I learned how important it is to consider learners’ prior knowledge and to create interdisciplinary, student-centered experiences that promote deeper understanding and motivation.
I plan to apply these principles by designing lessons that are relevant and interactive, encouraging collaboration, offering students choices in their learning, and using ongoing assessment to support growth. My goal is to create a more engaging, meaningful, and reflective learning environment.
When students get to learn in ways that match how they think and engage—like hands-on activities, real-world projects, and working with others—they feel more connected, motivated, and successful in their learning journey.
This module listed challenges of creating an active learning environment. I intend to be mindful of these challenges when working with my students and planning lessons. I intend to be mindful of the challenges of the time it takes to create the content, providing a variety of learning methods, and continually taking into consideration the time and effort it takes to assess my students all while working to increase engagement and action in the class.
Traditionally, our attention as educators has been primarily on the subject matter we teach. Nevertheless, the ways in which we communicate this content are just as crucial. By utilizing the variety of communication tools introduced in this module, I can significantly improve my students' learning outcomes.
We use reflection a lot with our nursing students. We teach them one way of doing things and when they have clinicals on the floor, they may see RNs doing things very different from how we taught them or even doing exactly what we told students not to do. Reflection is important in putting together the why of why we teach them an evidenced based practice method and why this really is best practice. It is important for students to think about how what they are learning applies to (or maybe doesn't apply) to the real world.
Constructivist Learning is problem based learning. Not passive pedagogical learning.
I like how this portion mentioned the learning environment... how it plays a huge part in helping the students' relationships with their learning abilities.
It is important to move past the instructor-centered approach to teaching and put the cognitive load on the students for more meaningful learning.
We already do incorporate this in the classroom through guided group discussion, and then enactment of real life case studies in healthcare.
I like the idea of constructivist approach to apply in clinical setting- posing real problems in which students can work ( real patients and real medical condition ) and help students to identify, pursue and reflect own learning goals and strategies.
I agree, real life experiences and the stories I tell pertaining to what my students are learning definately enhance the learning process and makes it fun.
It is important to take the real life experience students have into consideration.
Real world experiences really enhance the learning process.
collaberative learning requires relinquishing some classroom control
some have experiences in the working world. Share your experiences with them and compliment the ones that share their experences with the class.
Learning about terms is good but I'm ready for some hands on discussion of the ideas disscussed here.
As an instructor I need to be flexible and adapt my lessons to my students abilities and learning styles. It is important to vary the technique while maintaining my expectations and standards to be taught, but will have better student success if they are connected to the material and able to develop their own thoughts to the material.
I need to incorporate more case students and rigorous activities to allow the students to increase their role in the learning process.
