National College of Ireland Student Orientation
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This document discusses college students today and how they learn. It notes that college students are generally smarter, better educated, more professionally oriented and diverse than in the past. However, they also get less sleep and rely more on the internet than print sources. The document then provides examples of a child's questions about the world and how their understanding changed from seeing the earth as flat to realizing it is round. It describes learning as involving asking questions, investigating through different senses, creating meaning, discussing with others, and reflecting on experiences. Learning is noted as being difficult but an ongoing process of extracting meaning from each present experience.
National College of Ireland Student Orientation
- 1. Becoming a Successful Learner Bertram (Chip) Bruce Library & Information Science U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign NCI Orientation 5 September, 2007
- 2. Inquiry Cycle NCI Orientation 2 5 September, 2007
- 3. College students today o are smarter (James Flynn) o are better educated (Berliner & Biddle; Marable) o more professionally-oriented, older, more female, more non-white, more non-English speaking o get too little sleep (Mary Carskadon) o use the Internet instead of print sources, but trust print more (Leigh Healy) o focus on testing and grades too much NCI Orientation 3 5 September, 2007
- 4. Stephen's questions o Why do cars speed up passing a stop sign? o Why do things far away seem blue? o Why do my eyes water when I stare? o How does your body make tears? o Is the salt in tears the same as the salt on food? o Whats that pipe from the silo to the barn? NCI Orientation 4 5 September, 2007
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- 7. Exercise: How do you learn? Part 1. What shape is the earth? Draw a picture of yourself standing on the earth, as you would have drawn it when you were five years old. NCI Orientation 7 5 September, 2007
- 8. Part 2. How did you learn that? Write three or four phrases describing what led you to that picture of the earth. NCI Orientation 8 5 September, 2007
- 9. Research on learning Child: I can see it. The world is flat. NCI Orientation 9 5 September, 2007
- 10. Adult: No, the world is round. Child: Its round? Oh, a pancake! NCI Orientation 10 5 September, 2007
- 11. Adult: No, no... a ball! Look at this photo of earth from outer space. Child: Oh! Two earths! The round one in space and the flat one we live on. NCI Orientation 11 5 September, 2007
- 12. Learning means to o Ask; find problems o Investigate; combine information from visual, auditory, kinesthetic, verbal sources o Create; active construction of meaning o Discuss; collaborate with others of different backgrounds; think critically o Reflect; build on experience; learn how to learn NCI Orientation 12 5 September, 2007
- 13. ...Difficult o Piaget: disequilibrium o Vygotsky: zone of proximal development o Dewey: felt difficulty NCI Orientation 13 5 September, 2007
- 14. Inquiry and life We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same in the future. This is the only preparation which in the long run amounts to anything. --John Dewey, Experience & Education NCI Orientation 14 5 September, 2007