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Understanding SDL and COL
Self-Directed Learning (SDL)
Students who are self-directed learners might display some of the following behaviours
Construct 1: Ownership of Learning
Construct 2: Management and Monitoring of Own Learning
Construct 3: Extension of Own Learning
Students who are self-directed learners might display some of the following behaviours
Construct 1: Ownership of Learning
- Student sets learning targets for himself/herself
Construct 2: Management and Monitoring of Own Learning
- Student knows which parts of the lessons he/she does not understand
- Student asks questions when he/she is not sure about the lessons
- Student looks for more information to help him/her understand the lessons better
- Student makes a list of what he/she needs to do for his/her learning
- Student completes his/her schoolwork on time
- Student tries to understand where he/she went wrong in his/her schoolwork
- Student tries different ways to solve problems on his/her own
Construct 3: Extension of Own Learning
- Student uses what he/she learns in class after his/her lessons
- Student finds out more than what his/her teachers teach him/her in school
- Student uses the computer to go online to ask people outside his/her school for ideas on his/her lessons
- become better at a skill that he/she is interested in e.g. learn a language
- get ideas from different websites and people to learn more about a topic
Collaborative Learning (CoL)
For Students
Collaborative learning (CoL) is where students work in pairs or groups to solve a problem or to achieve a common learning objective (Barkley et al., 2005).
Construct 1: Effective Group Processes
When a student works in a group, he / she
For Students
Collaborative learning (CoL) is where students work in pairs or groups to solve a problem or to achieve a common learning objective (Barkley et al., 2005).
Construct 1: Effective Group Processes
When a student works in a group, he / she
- listens carefully to ideas from his/her group members
- questions to better understand his/her group members’ ideas
- shares ideas with his/her group members
- agrees on what everyone must do
- discusses how they will do the group work
- completes the work that he/she needs to do
- uses computing tools (e.g. discussion forums, MSN Messenger, wikis) to
- discuss with his/her group members on what needs to be done for their project
- work with his/her group members to complete a project
- gather information for their project from people outside his/her school
- share his/her thoughts with his/her group members on how they can work better together
Activity 3
- for upper primary teachers primary teachersmar |