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Does offering students a choice in assignments lead to greater engagement?
How do we allow for inquiry while still ensuring learning (the proficiency of standards)?
What are the most effective practices for facilitating diverse youth leadership in schools?
Do digital learning materials improve student achievement or motivation?
Following are some videos which i bookmarked and like to share about the first question in this article about CHOICE. ie Does offering students a choice in assignments lead to greater engagement ?
Do we really need to coursify things which we may have natural inclination to learn, Killing the intrinsic M with something extrinsic.
Or a certificate(signifier) will lead to Looking-glass self, Makes me think systematically like a philosopher or Social Scientist. https://t.co/vnmfOtAMuU
In the discussion of education and its purpose there are often two predominant paradigms; The Human Capital Theory and The Signaling Theory.
Human capital theory claims that education will stimulate social mobility and raises wages by increasing productivity.
The signalling perspective on education suggests that education causes social mobility because it signifies the competence to the employers or other decision makers. It suggests that the asymmetric information in job market causes the decision maker to look for most trustworthy attributes of the job seeker. That is why getting into a top college sends an stronger positive signal.
What’s intriguing to me about this is, while the signaling power of certification is very evident, could it negatively affect real learning( not learning for the achievement of grades).
Will it negatively impact the individuals learning motivation in the post credential life when there are no extrinsic motivation of a certification is available.
There is phenomena called Motivation crowding out in psychology, which suggest that providing extrinsic incentives for certain kinds of behavior, such as promising monetary rewards for accomplishing some task,. can sometimes undermine intrinsic motivation for performing that behavior.
Edward Deci(creator ofSelf Determination Theory), researcher at the University of Rochester, found that people given a financial incentive were now less interested in solving puzzles on their own time. Although these people had earlier been just as eager as those in the other group, offering an external incentive seemed to kill their internal drive.
They previously thought of the puzzle as something they really enjoy and like to do, but after introducing extrinsic rewards they do it in order to get money, and they think of the task as an instrument to get money and not an activity that has value in its own right.
Contrast Thinking is a very effective learning method, It involves thinking with clarity, relativity, distinction and focus. Instead of learning one idea we will learn two ideas reinforcing each other. Viz A Pack of binaries.#Learning#Skill
Even when we were infants, comparative thinking is one of our first and most natural forms of thought. This is why the strategy of comparison comes easy for us as a learning method.
Comparison and Contrast methods engage students in outlining, differentiating, and distinguishing information.
By using comparison students will be able to identify similarities and differences between two or more items to understand how they are alike, equal, or analogous to each other. There are also connected strategies to comparative thinking Viz classifying, creating analogies, and creating metaphors.
This also demonstrates the benefit of MCQ testing as a powerful way of learning. Learners attempting to retrieve learn not only why the correct alternative is correct but also why the other alternatives are incorrect.(Bjork Study)
This idea seems to me as a very good reason why we need to design learning environment which encourages trying failing and correcting mistakes without any punishment associated with it.(Eg, Low–stakes testing).
This is the idea behind low stake testing. It involves the frequent use of evaluation instruments that have little impact on a student’s course grade.
There are no down side to failing in same environments.
Hyper-correction of high-confidence errors in the classroom : Does this means people with natural propensity to be more confident and outgoing has advantage in learning.https://t.co/1DEK9EMob6pic.twitter.com/YkH47eL6C9