thinking learning active learning collaborative learning

Thinking LearningActive Learning Collaborative Learning

“Teachers and students should be able to recognize those aspects of education that facilitate effective thinking, and those that interfere with it” (Smith 125).

Much of Grassian's discussion on active learning seems very applicable to academic libraries, but how could librarians incorporate active learning in public, special, or corporate libraries-- other than having participants follow along on their own computers?  Are there other ways?

-Kiley

"...instead of telling learners what the common features of databases are, you could have them complete exercises that require them to use two or three databases and then ask them to describe the common features of these databases."

2. You list the learning elements you wish the audience to absorb. In this case, you would want them to know that despite their apparent differences, databases have three common functions. You can search, you can display, and you can save, by printing, emailing, or downloading.

3. You figure out how you can get the audience to come up with these learning elements, rather than supplying them yourself. [...]

4. You plan to fill in any missing elements the learners leave out.

-Grassian, 120-121

"One of the theoretical underpinnings of collaborative learning is that someone who’s learning alongside or who has just recently come to understand something is the very best person to scaffold your understanding of that same thing. Rather than someone who passed that way many many years ago, the sage on the stage, it’s the person who’s just barely grappled with an idea who can best scaffold your construction of that same knowledge.”

-Janet Younghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Vcf-p3--w