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Forget

80;42%

70;37%

30; 16%

10;5%

Listeningto others

Seingpictures

Speakingourselves

Doingourselves

Keep in ourm em ory

20; 10%

30; 14%

70; 33%

90; 43% Listening to othersSeing pictures

Speaking ourselves

Doing ourselves

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Communicative ApproachStudent centred learning

bymeansofbrainstorming and mind

mapping -Learning styles

Retention

Provideditemshavebeenunderstoodand thusbecomecomprehensible

What weforget

What weremember

BrainstormingandMindmapping

Bothareextremely communicative, oncethestudents real isethat theWHATis

moreimportant thantheHOW.

WHATstandinghereforwhat they sayandthat i t is understoodby theirpeers.

HOW standinghereforwhetherthey say

it in correct, perfect English orsimpleEnglish with mistakes orwithout.

Corrections by the teacherorpeers will

eventually makestudents' utterancesmorec omprehensiblet hus building

students' confidencetocommunicate.

Bothvisual isethought/informationlearnt

before (knowledge), preventinginformation overload/memory overflow.

This in turn frees processing memory andspeeds up producingnewthought/out put.

Ideas visual isedby means of a mindmap

becomepubl ic domainforal lstudents.

Nobody has to 're-invent thewheel ' or

store information short term forf urtherprocessing.

Both accommodat e all three principal learning styles

Auditory learner= learns by listening

andtalking about it.

Visual learner= learns by looking atimages of things andwords (not too many

words)

Kinesthetic learner= learns by doing,

actionand dynamics of movement inimages, gettinghis/her'hands dirty'

ProjectWork/ ProblemSolving

Both introduce the real world into theartificial class room that has been ruled by

the artificial world of a text book publishedin Oxford orCambridge not reflecting our

students' experience/way of l i fefory ears.

Provided that the problem orthe project is

basedonthestudents' knowledgeand/or

experience.

Thereforei t is essential that thestudents

chooset he problem/project they want todo- AND NOTTHETEACHER -

(problems in2008)

Experience in2009has shownso far, that

thechal lengeof doingaproject motivatesthestudents to ventureinto'unknown

terri tory' thus demandingmuchmoreof

themselves thandoingateacher's projectthey might block, because it is not theirs.

How does our brainwork?

Brain

mapping-nerve cells

andsynapses

andflowofinformation

bits. Mindmapping

copies this.

CPU herethesynapses are wires

linking to input anoutput devices

Processing informationInformation input is takenintoprocessingmemory.

Already existing information that is known,

i .e., i t has beenlearnedbefore(information ormet hods of processing

(program)is retrieved from short-, mid-orlong-term memory)[in the computer this

wouldbeafloppy disk, aROMoraharddisk] and transferred into the processing

memory [inthe computer's CPU thiswouldbetheALU

(Algorithmic-Logical-Unit).

Intheprocessingmemory newand'old'informationarematchedandprocessed.

Onceprocessinghas finishedthe

outcomeis storedas output into memoryforfuture use.

Theessentialdi fferencebetweena

computer and a brain is, that the first ismechanic andt helatteris dynamic.

A mechanic device will neverlose

memory, unless there is a hard diskcrash. Inform ation in memory will thus

always befound.

A dynamic devic e like ourbrain will not

always find storedinformation, becausethereis theelement of forgettingdueto

synapses-c onnections beinglost.

To support the brain retrieve informationfasterand speedupprocessingvisual

aids are ideal. These visual aids could beprint, images orbrainst orming and mind

maps.

Repetition also helps to re-build thesynapses-connections. (Honeywell Bull)

Learningstyles - nobody has onelearningstyleonly - we haveamixof themallw ithpredominanceoftheoneor theother.

Auditory learner= learns by listening

andtalking about it.

Visual learner= learns by looking atimages of things andwords (not toomany

words)

Kinesthetic learner= learns by doing,actionand dynamics of movement in

images, gettinghis/her'hands dirty'

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