ICT for Meaningful Learning

So as to be prepared for the lesson, I did a little reading up about SDL and CL before class last Friday. I thought I had a clear understanding of what SDL and CL is. Well, in theory, at least.

Then came Friday and I stepped into class. I learnt then that reading about something is one thing. Experiencing it is a totally different story. I paired up with Charmian for the THINK-PAIR-SHARE activities where we shared what we know about SDL and CL and tried to fill up the gaps in our knowledge.

Basically, Self-Directed Learning occurs when one decides what he wants to learn, how he wants to learn it, what are his learning goals and outcomes, what he needs to learn what he wants to learn and then evaluating his experiences. In other words, a self-directed learner takes ownership of his own learning.

In Collaborative Learning, a group of people with the same learning goals will come together to pool their knowledge and solve the problem.

For our group assignment, come this September 18, I teamed up with Serene, Charmian and Yani. We will then have to put SDL and CL into practice as we will decide on what we want to do and how to do it and we will share our knowledge and experiences to execute this assignment well.

SDL and CL seems to be a good teaching techniques for me to implement when I get posted out to schools later.

I believe that one will retain information and remember better the things that they experienced for themselves and I think that SDL and CL will be able to fulfil just that.

xoxo,
|.eikha.|