Teaching, Learning and What Happens In-between Bill Byers University of Ulster

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Teaching, Learning and What Happens
In-betweenBill ByersUniversity of Ulster
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E-mail address

• w.byers_at_ulster.ac.uk
• byers814_at_btinternet.com

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Teaching and learning are not synonymous we can
teachand teach wellwithout having the students
learn George Bodner (1986)
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LEARNING m(TEACHING) c
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Storing
Storage... sometimes branched, sometimes as
separate fragments
Interpreting Rearranging Comparing Storage Prepara
tion
Events Observations Instructions
Perception Filter
Retrieving
WORKING MEMORY
LONG TERM MEMORY
Feedback loop for Perception Filter
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Storing
Interpreting Rearranging Comparing Storage Prepara
tions
Storage sometimes branched,sometimes as
separate fragments
Events Observations Instructions
Perception Filter
Retrieving
WORKING MEMORY
LONG TERM MEMORY
Feedback loop For Perception Filter
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Assimilation
Teacher
Student
Student
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Rote Memorising
Teacher
Student
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Misconception
Teacher
Student
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Accommodation
Teacher
Student
Student
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BEWARE!

• The Need To Be Always Right
• Insufficient Time On Task
• The Emperors Clothes

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You learn more by getting things wrong than by
getting them rightIts not stupid to get things
wrong. Its only stupid when we dont learn from
our mistakes
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InformationTransfer
KnowledgeConstruction
Teachig
Meaningful Learning
Rote Memorising
FAST
SLOWrds
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TIME ON TASK

• Encouraged by
• Open ended problems
• Case study/role play
• Group work
• Oral/poster presentations
• Student control of process
• relevance

• Discouraged by
• Too much information
• Semesterisation
• Part-time jobs