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Slide 1: Inductive Learning Free powerpoints at http://www.worldofteaching.com
Slide 2: Learning by Discovery  "an approach to instruction through which students interact with their environment-by exploring and manipulating objects, wrestling with questions and controversies, or performing experiments" (Ormrod, 1995, p. 442)
Slide 3: Sandbox theory
Slide 4: Sandbox theory Students learn through active discovery - experimentation, examination and analysis NOT direct instruction
Slide 5: Jerome Bruner we should somehow give to children (students) a respect for their own powers of thinking, for their power to generate good questions, to come up with interesting informed guesses ...
Slide 6: Examples Categorization Surveys Webquests Interviews Experiments Collecting Simulations
Slide 7: Example  Problem based learning “Why can birds fly?” Well designed questions are the key to good “discovery”
Slide 9: How are they different?
Slide 10: What’s the difference?
Slide 11: Knowing RECALL RETAIN REPEAT KCAASE – Bloom’s Taxonomy
Slide 12: Understanding Explain Review Discuss KCAASE – Bloom’s Taxonomy
Slide 13: Learning As…… A process A self – empowering process An active process (Dewey) A self-monitoring process A deep process (Piaget)
Slide 14: Prerequisites
Slide 16: Students need some prior knowledge so they can “discover”. - See Vygotsky. “on the shoulders of giants”
Slide 17: Students need structure. Provide students with organizers and steps to enable “discovery”
Slide 18: Discovery is a collaborative process. Students need to practice working in groups and be comfortable with it.
Slide 19: The teacher “leads” the students with appropriate suggestions and tasks. Subtle persuasion!
Slide 20: All students should actively present findings and share their discovery. Consolidate!
Slide 22: http://eflclassroom.ning.com