I came across this article last week and it has caused me to think a lot about on-line learning, moocs, and virtual instruction. How ready are secondary students for this type of environment; especially students with learning disabilities? Almost every day I receive a banner ad on my home page for the company K12 Education. I have never home-schooled my kids and all three are in a school they love and don't intend to leave. A lot of what I love about their current school is that engage in a wide range of hands on projects and emphasize individualized instruction.
This project at Stanford suggests that instead of independent reading or watching a video, students learn best through kinesthetic (tactile) learning. I was been under the impression that we all have our preferred styles (visual, auditory, verbal, kinesthetic). I've always considered myself a visual learner. Is distance learning too distant? Too passive?
In any case, because I am also interested in neuroscience, this article was particularly interesting to me.
"Studying a particular lesson, the Stanford researchers showed that when the order was reversed, students’ performances improved substantially. While the study has broad implications about how best to employ interactive learning technologies, it also focuses specifically on the teaching of neuroscience and underscores the effectiveness of a new interactive tabletop learning environment, called BrainExplorer, which was developed by Stanford GSE researchers to enhance neuroscience instruction."
This project at Stanford suggests that instead of independent reading or watching a video, students learn best through kinesthetic (tactile) learning. I was been under the impression that we all have our preferred styles (visual, auditory, verbal, kinesthetic). I've always considered myself a visual learner. Is distance learning too distant? Too passive?
In any case, because I am also interested in neuroscience, this article was particularly interesting to me.
"Studying a particular lesson, the Stanford researchers showed that when the order was reversed, students’ performances improved substantially. While the study has broad implications about how best to employ interactive learning technologies, it also focuses specifically on the teaching of neuroscience and underscores the effectiveness of a new interactive tabletop learning environment, called BrainExplorer, which was developed by Stanford GSE researchers to enhance neuroscience instruction."
Here is the link to the article by David Plotnikoff if you are interested in reading the whole article:
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/07/before-reading-or-watching-videos-students-should-first-experiment/
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