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UBC’s World Cafe What is student-centered learning?

World Cafe: What is Student-Centered Learning, Really?

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UBC’s World Cafe

What is student-centered learning?

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facilitators

Jan Johnson: Manager, Facilitation and Process Design

Cindy Underhill: Learning Resource Design Strategist

Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT)

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what we’re aiming for...

A documented collection of your ideas about student centered learning. What does it mean? What do we need in order to

support it?

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how we’ll get there..

Discussion

Sticky notes for ideas

Grouping ideas according to themes/patterns

Collective observations

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student-centered perspective...

“Learning results from what the student does and thinks and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing what the student does to learn.”

- Herbert Simon ( late Prof. Carnegie Mellon University)

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student-centered principles

Active, experiential

Shared power between teacher/student: teacher as guide

Focus on deep learning* and understanding

Learner assumes responsibility for learning

Learner constructs knowledge

Social context important

*intention: to understand (beyond task completion)

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what does it look like?

as a learner

Photo by velcro on Flickr

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or this...

as a teacher

From wasme on Flickr

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or this...

as a teacher

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or this...

as a teacher

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or this...

as a teacher

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or this...

as a teacher

How do you

know?

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or somewhere in between...

as a teacher

From O’Neill and McMahon 2005

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Discussion 1

Talk about:

What happens when an attempt at creating a student centered environment doesn’t work? Impact on teachers? Learners?

Do:

brainstorm ideas on flip chart paper

choose a few key ideas and write on sticky notes

add to wall

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Discussion 2

Talk about:

What are the ingredients for a student centered learning environment that works?  Why are those ingredients important?

Do:

brainstorm ideas on flip chart paper

choose a few key ideas and write on sticky notes

add to wall

change group – one “messenger” stays behind.

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observations

What patterns do you notice?

Are you surprised by anything you see?

Is there anything missing?

Something you would like to move or highlight?

One thing that you will take away from the discussion?

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thank you!

Outcomes assembled on UBCWiki:

http://wiki.ubc.ca/Documentation:World_Cafe