Psed 2
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Learning by doing means learning from one's own actions and experiences rather than just watching, reading, or listening. It involves direct sensory contact with the results of one's own actions. The teacher finds that John Dewey's theory of learning by doing helps their young students learn best through hands-on experiences. While time-consuming to prepare activities, it drives student attention and participation in lessons, helping the teacher achieve their objectives. However, it requires patience to control eager students and plenty of materials.
Psed 2
- 1. PSED 2 Learning by doing means learning from experiences resulting directly from one¡¯s own actions, as contrasted with learning from watching others perform, reading others¡¯ instructions or descriptions, or listening to others¡¯ instructions or lectures. Of course, watching, reading, and listening are actions, but they are not the kinds of doing referred to as learning by doing because they yield direct experience with demonstrations or de- scriptions of actions rather than with actions the learner actually performs. In classical psychology and its hangers-on (e.g., Robinson, 1930), ¡°direct experience¡± meant mental contact with mental phenomena by introspection; but in the present context, it means sensory contact with the results of doing. As a teacher with young learners particularly with the ages three to eight years old, the learners I have tend to learn best through experiencing things. The theory of John Dewey¡¯s Learning by doing helps me in accomplishing my objectives of the lesson. Because they love to learn by doing it, it drives them to be more attentive in the lesson that I am having. This theory helps me as a teacher in developing the skills that I wanted to see in and after the lesson. Using Dewey¡¯s theory adds more participation and response I wanted to my learners. They tend to be more active in the teaching and learning process rather than just listening and watching me in the discussion. In this kind of approach, it gives me confidence in achieving my goals but there are also some issues to be addressed. Using this theory requires much time in giving them hands-on activities. It requires me lots of time in preparing activities for the learners. It requires lots of materials to be used and patience in controlling all my
- 2. learners in every activity. With the learners that I have, they are very eager to participate in all hands-on activities that we are having. Controlling the eagerness of kids needs more patience to us teachers. John Dewey¡¯s theory gives us more help in achieving our objectives but requires us to be more creative and resourceful in making activities that our learners needed in order to learn. It might be time consuming in preparing the needed activities and materials needed, but at the end of the day, your goals in making these activities will be seen and accomplish.