Session 2

Session 2
这个星期学到的重点：
Self-directed learning & collaborative learning

Self-directed learning (SDL)
•refers to any increase in knowledge, skill, accomplishment, or personal development that an individual selects and brings about by his or her own efforts using any method in any circumstances at any time.
(Gibbons, 2002:2)

Collaborative learning
• refers to the social process whereby students learn through interacting with others.
•It entails social construction of knowledge
–To socially construct knowledge is to form an argument through talk (Nussbaum, 2008)
•Perform inquiry and solve problems together
•Propose ideas/theories
•Support and evaluate claims with evidences
•Offer multiple perspectives, rise-above etc
•Build on one another’s ideas


How teachers promote studnts' self-directed learning

•Teach students to set their own goals and the skills/processes related to goal setting, making plans and initiating actions.
•Design opportunities for students to:
– articulate their roles during their learning process
–rationalise their decisions on what is to be learnt, when and how it should be learnt, and how it should be evaluated
–reflect on what they did and revise their attempted work