Learning Skills Online | Origin: EL121
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Teaching Skills and Trades Online --> Learning Skills Online
Post what you've learned about this topic and how you intend to apply it. Feel free to post questions and comments too.
You must model what you want your students to produce
demonstrating lifelong learning skills are critical for working in the trade field
I've learned that adding short videos makes your theory a bit more interesting and more engaging.
i plan personally to implement the IDEAL problem solving in my own journey to help students with theirs.
I learned about the importance of modeling what you want students to learn. kb
I found the emphasis on discussion skills particularly interesting. However, I find it challenging to create online activities that encourage students to engage in constructive and deep discussions.
Technical skills are required to be successful, but to be truly successful, one must also practice critical thinking skills and be able to understand not only what they are doing, but why they are doing it.
Collaborative Learning strategies become critical in this environment. I agree with having students conduct short presentations to teach each other.
Reasoning skills are important for students to acquire to improve on decision making, think through problems and propose their own solutions to understand how options can be used in different settings. I find that my high school students are unable to recognize when something is missing or inadequate in a process. It is important for teachers to provide students with opportunities to acquire these skills by not giving them the answers and to let students discover the why and how on their own.
Comment on Carl Petee's post: carl you really pointed out the most relevent dilemma. humans are preprogrammed for confirmation bias in their quest to survive.
Assume our students are modeling our behavior...because they are. And not just our technical skills...but all of our skills.
I learned about the I-D-E-A-L methodical approach for resolving problems based on the IDEAL (Identify, Define, Explore, Act, Look) model. I am going to try this in my next class.
Going though this section has shown me the importance of confidence and posture during the lesson. How you project the information and make eye contact keeps the credibility and the learning at a higher level of acceptance.
After completing this section, some great aspects were presented. I feel that presentation skills, verbal and critical thinking skills are very important for technical learners. Everyone thinks that only hands on teaching methods offer the student the most full experience but this section backs up the facts that other skills are very important in order to be successful.
Students working together and being able to communicate with one another is important.
Role modeling is a great way to show the students how things are done.
It is important to help the student learn presentation skills and feel comfortable when presenting ideas and understand problem solving with groups and themselves.
This easy-to-remember heuristic device represents the 5 steps of this evergreen problem-solving method.
IDEAL problem-solvers
I-dentify the source of the problem,
D-efine its context,
E-xplore solutions strategies,
A-ct on the best solution,
L-ook back and evaluate the process.
It is important for students to participate in the presentations in various ways. The module is informative and provides skills to enhance critical thinking skills and problem solving.
