Educational Psychology / Unit 10 EDP 0926 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Active Learning
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The idea
Active learning means students doing things and thinking about what they are doing, often in groups and aimed at higher-order thinking; it rests on constructivism and Vygotsky's sociocultural theory, with metacognition as the link.
In practice
Students predict what a pendulum will do, test it and explain the gap.
Where people slip
Activity alone is not active learning; the thinking about the activity is.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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