Situated learning

everything I undertake, whether it be academics, athletics, extracurriculars, leadership, or service. While I am a high-achieving student, I prefer to be sought as a scholar-one for whom knowledge is about more than test scores and grades, and for whom learning is an appetite rather than a means to an end. To me, education is the key to success; therefore, my passion for education is connected with my desire to help others. As a result, I decided to partake in math tutoring…

the experience of project-based learning of Taiwanese EFL students. Results from this quasi-experimental study indicated that project-based learning incorporated with the aspect of digital storytelling engaged students more than the conventional project-based learning activities such as assigning tasks and presenting results. In addition, this innovative approach also enhanced EFL students’ learning motivation, problem-solving ability as well as achievement of learning. Reyes, Pich and García…

to incorporate computer base learning into the lesson plans. Computer base learning would be able to give students who are motivated to keep up with their pace. Students could go and measure their ability to read and write in a certain point of view. The computer technology can afford several different representations of information including text, diagrams, and graphs, among others. CBLEs that use multiple representations of information are a type of multimedia learning environment (Mayer,…

The structure of a teacher’s classroom is crucial to determining the type of learning environment that the teacher wants to have. For my students’ desks, my preference is rows and columns. The reason that I choose rows and columns is that I have seen clusters in action during my filed experience during this semester. The students in my field placement are unfortunately off task more often than not, because they are in groups the entire time that they are in school, causing more disruptions in…

Research Question: How can technology be used in education to increase students’ learning and experience? Tentative Thesis: Technology is the best advancement in education in the 21st century. Works Cited Bissell, Ahrash N. "Architecture and Impact of an Open, Online, Remixable, and Multimedia Rich Algebra 1 Course." Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks 16.5 (2012): 49 59. ERIC. Web. 26 Mar. 2016. Ahrash Bissell in “Architecture and Impact of an Open, Online Remixable, and Multimedia Rich…

learned the trip would be useful for students’ learning in the future, particularly for Social Studies and History students. Teachers play an important role in ensuring the field trip to run smoothly and meaningful for their learning experience, one by providing students with good reading materials and risk assessment beforehand. This reflective essay will talk about my experience and how Kg Ayer field trip would be useful for my students’ learning in the future. Risk assessment form is one of…

There are a lot of reasons why I decided to come back to school to become a teacher, but one of the largest is that I have always enjoyed learning. I think there is something magical about watching the moment when the effort put towards understanding finally comes together and an idea just clicks for a student. I realize this is not all that teaching is, there are many times where you might not feel like what you’re doing isn’t really having an impact but seeing the moments of understanding do…

expand our own knowledge or just self work with the professor analysing how someone's understandings to it is. The improvements on writing a good Rhetorical Analysis is ranging to a good path. From not knowing what a Rhetorical Analysis paper is to learning how to write one is a journey of various class lectures. Now when dealing with a certain paper especially Rhetorical Analysis papers there are…

create meaningful learning situations by focusing on children as active learners. According to Carr, a social view of learning and teaching is difficult to combine with assessment limited to individual skills irrespective of the context, as learning is more than personal knowledge. This view is connected to Bruner , Rogoff , Vygosky and Wertsch cited in Grindheim et al (2010 p.77) who combine individual development to participation in social practices in cultural and situated contexts. Children…

scribbling or drawing, which reflect the image of literacy created by children in order to provide us with insights into their personal experiences of literacy, that is, what sense they have constructed of the complex world of literacy in which they are situated (Kendrick & McKay, 2009). Children’s drawing is a tool used by children in order to visually show and reveal scripts and literacy narratives which demonstrate children’s perceptions and interpretations of their social interactions and…