Teaching 11.124: Enabling Students to Learn Through Experience
MIT 11.124 Introduction to Education: Looking Forward and Looking Back on Education, Fall 2011 View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/11-124F11 ...
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I try to practice what I preach in my class, or practice what I teach in my class, which is that learning happens not from me telling things to students, but from them experiencing things. And I want them to be able to enable that with their own students, and I'm trying to do that in my own class with my students. So, on the first day of class, I might give a lecture for 20 minutes about what the class is about, and that's pretty much it for lecturing for me for the rest of the semester. So, we do a lot of stuff that's discussion-based and activity-based. I do try to have, I don't think constructivism-From my perspective, I'm not a radical constructivist who says, "Everything needs to be learned by the students on their own." But it's a matter of having, figuring ...
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I try to practice what I preach in my class, or practice what I teach in my class, which is that learning happens not from me telling things to students, but from them experiencing things. And I want them to be able to enable that with their own students, and I'm trying to do that in my own class with my students. So, on the first day of class, I might give a lecture for 20 minutes about what the class is about, and that's pretty much it for lecturing for me for the rest of the semester. So, we do a lot of stuff that's discussion-based and activity-based. I do try to have, I don't think constructivism-From my perspective, I'm not a radical constructivist who says, "Everything needs to be learned by the students on their own." But it's a matter of having, figuring ...
