Exploratory Learning

Environment

Problems with Assessment

Learning Theories

Pedagogic Principles

Learning Rooms

• Teach with Movies
• Investigations

ELE Contexts

• Advancement
• Belief Systems
• Conflict & Disaster
• Cultural Hertiage
• Environment
• Gender Issues
• Globalization
• History Repeats
• Knowledge is Power
• Natural Resources
• Urbanisation and Waste Management
• Weather Patterns

Contextualized Learning - Units of Work

Assessment for Learning

References

Rubrics

An Exploratory Learning Environment (ELE) facilities and supports learning; students engage in higher level cognitive activities like generating hypotheses and testing them, making generalisations and testing assumptions, finding relevance, making comparisions, classifying and (re)structuring information, discovering inter-relationships, constructing, creating and reaching conclusions following various paths.

 

The context, and/or environment, in which students learn and develop as human beings has a critical impact on the kinds of adults they will become.

 

"To present an adequate notion of learning one must first explain how the individual manages to construct and invent, not merely how he repeats and copies". Piaget

Assessment for Learning

• Assessment for Learning is one of the most important purposes of assessment.

• Assessment should not just monitor students' achievement, it should also advance learning.

Relationship between Assessment and Learning

• Learning is a remarkably social process that occurs as the result of a social framework that fosters learning and not primarily as the result of teaching.

• Students adopt the attitudes and behaviours of the society they inhibit and so are rewarded with a sense of belonging

• When students are empowered to learn by critically linking academic knowledge and other forms of knowledge residing in their community,

• They become equal partners in the assessment process enabling them to be agents of change thereby increasing their own market capital and sustainable future

• ELE assessment allows us to focus students' learning on critical thinking skills whose validation comes from students' own evaluation, rather than from an abstract source of authority