These claims and arguments manifested the urgent need to new entrance; which prompted the stakeholders to search new approaches that combine the properties of both, the traditional learning and e-learning and, to overcome the deficiencies of both at the same time. The way therefore, was paved to the emergence of "Blended Learning" as a new approach blending all forms of traditional learning with the different varieties of e-learning creating an innovative teaching-learning methodology. A new innovation
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Lesson 17: Assessment in a Constructivist, Technology-Supported Learning Lesson 17: Assessment in a Constructivist, Technology-Supported Learning SUMMARY: WHAT IS ASSESSMENT? It is the process of making some evaluation; the act of assessing. WHAT IS CONSTRUCTIVIST THEORY? Constructivist theory is a theory to explain on how knowledge is constructed in the human being when information comes into contact with existing knowledge that has been developed by experiences. Constructivism
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convergence of technologies has provided the infrastructure for significant change in our society and education in general. Our society has become increasingly centred around the management and manipulation of knowledge (Smart, 1992; Wresch, 1996). In educational contexts, the changes brought by the introduction of information technology have variously been perceived as either: a great good (Hill, 1999), a virilent evil (Brabazon, 2002), or neither (Shields, 2000). Regardless of its relative value, all authors
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Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology Many students are being left behind by an educational system that some people believe is in crisis. Improving educational outcomes will require efforts on many fronts, but a central premise of this monograph is that one part of a solution involves helping students to better regulate their learning through the use of effective learning techniques. Fortunately, cognitive and educational psychologists have been developing and evaluating
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it was a teacher-centred learning process. Now, it was transformed to OBE or Outcomes-Based Education. It was introduced in the Philippines last July 2012 by the CHED or Commission on Higher Education. OBE has become a focal point for critics of educational reform all across the world. It calls for a shift in that paradigm (model, pattern), from content to process in which a child is called upon to demonstrate what he knows and can do against standards established by the traditional education system
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Read/write learner finds it easy to share information with others from a written source, preferring to convey information from a printed or written verbiage rather than from diagram. This type of learner is at greatest advantage over others as most educational and instructional teaching is delivered in this
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spectrum within the Abbotsford School District as a special education assistant. It is fascinating to me that there are so many different branches within the disorder, and how every single person is entirely unique. My purpose of this presentation is to debate if peer interaction, and integration to classrooms is a good idea. Slide 2: Aims and Intentions Page. Slide 3: First, we are going to start off with “What is ASD?” According to Medline Plus 2018 definition, Autism Spectrum Disorder “is a neurological
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Standards for Career and Technology Education Teachers. This article provides a proposed constructivist pedagogy for the Vocational Technology studies. Though I do not consider myself to be a strict- constructivist teacher, when I compared my educational philosophy to this proposed pedagogy, I realized how much the study of constructivist theory and practice had influenced my beliefs and methods of instruction. As a future Technology Education educator, I applied these constructivist principles
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Britain is a multicultural nation and has one of the best educational systems in the world. Over the decades education had developed widely in UK, and is provided and available to every child very near to his doorstep (Walford, 1990). Even more importance is given to its educational system in the 21st century. Thus, in the last two decades there has been vast growth in the numbers of students, faculty members and educational facilities (Peters & Reed, 2001). Inequality of opportunity
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models, posters, flowcharts, slides, videos that will help the learner input the information and then output the information by drawing the picture or recalling visual images on an examination. Aural Learners prefer learning through discussions, debates, arguments, presentations, lectures, tape recording, interesting examples, stories, jokes etc. These aural means can help the learner recall information for examinations because thinking of discussions and conversations
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