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How to Learn (Almost) Anything
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As the digital revolution brings with it radical changes in how and what we learn, people must continue to learn all the time. New technologies make possible new approaches to learning, new contexts for learning, new tools to support learning, and new ideas of what can be learned. This course will explore these new opportunities for learning with a special focus on what can be learned through immersive, hands-on activities. Students will participate in (and reflect on) a variety of learning situations, and will use Media Lab technologies to develop new workshops, iteratively run and refine the workshops, and analyze how and what the workshop participants learn.

Subject:
Education
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
MIT
Provider Set:
MIT OpenCourseWare
Author:
Mikhak, Bakhtiar
Resnick, Mitchel
Date Added:
02/01/2001
Using Learning Assistants in Oral Assessments
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Undergraduate Learning Assistants -- prepared to work productively with students -- have been used to facilitate ungraded, voluntary oral assessments offered prior to exams. Oral assessments last one hour, and are offered prior to the three course exams. Orals are geared to improve student understanding and allow instructors to work with students on an individual basis to address misunderstandings. Students attend oral assessments in groups of 5-6 and work at a board to answer scripted, conceptual questions. The facilitator asks the initial scripted questions as well as follow-up probing questions and encourages students to work together.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Economics
Mathematics
Social Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Assessment
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Starting Point (SERC)
Author:
Mary Nelson
Stephine Chasteen
Date Added:
08/28/2012
Using Learning Assistants in Recitation Tutorials
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Undergraduate Learning Assistants can be used to supplement the instructor and/or Teaching Assistant during recitations. They may help facilitate productive group work on tutorial activities designed to help students develop conceptual understanding and problem-solving skills. In this example, we describe the use of Learning Assistants to support tutorials within recitation in two introductory science courses physics and chemistry.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Chemistry
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Starting Point (SERC)
Author:
Laurie Langdon
Noah Finkelstein
Stephanie Chasteen
Steven Pollock
Date Added:
08/28/2012
Using Learning Assistants to Support Peer Instruction with Classroom Response Systems ("Clickers")
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Learning Assistants are used to facilitate student discussion in peer instruction during clicker questions (i.e., classroom response systems), by asking Socratic questions, emphasizing reasoning, and probing student thinking.

Subject:
Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
Biology
Chemistry
Ecology
Environmental Science
Geoscience
Life Science
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Starting Point (SERC)
Author:
Douglas Duncan
Jennifer Knight
Stephanie Chasteen
Steven J. Pollock
Date Added:
08/28/2012
Using PhET Simulations in a Large Lecture Class: The Photoelectric Effect
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This activity provides a complete curriculum for teaching the photoelectric effect using the PhET Photoelectric Effect simulation in a large-lecture modern physics course. It includes links to powerpoint slides for two to three 50-minute lectures using Peer Instruction with clickers, and one homework assignment suitable for an online homework system. Research has demonstrated that students in classes using this curriculum have a better understanding of the photoelectric effect than students in classes using traditional instruction supplemented by a computerized tutor.

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Simulation
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Starting Point (SERC)
Author:
Sam McKagan
Date Added:
08/28/2012
Various Group Activities Using Learning Assistants
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Undergraduate Learning Assistants have been used to facilitate group work in a variety of ways, such as in-lecture tutorials and worksheets, group work in required recitations, and group work in optional co-seminars. This page describes some of these various ways that Learning Assistants can be used to help make a course more interactive.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Astronomy
Biology
Chemistry
Life Science
Mathematics
Physical Science
Physics
Space Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Starting Point (SERC)
Author:
Amy Palmer
Douglas Duncan
Jennifer Knight
Laurie Langdon
Michelle Smith
Seth Hornstein
Stephanie Chasteen
Date Added:
08/28/2012