...Active Learning Strategies 1. Active Learning Strategy: One-Minute Paper Description of Strategy: The active learning strategy of one-minute question or one-minute paper, as described by Faust and Paulson (1998), requires the instructor to briefly pause their lecture, and pose a question to their class. This question should test the most important concept covered during that lecture session, and it can be presented in the midst of the lecture or near the end of the class period. This active learning strategy permits the instructor to determine the effectiveness of their lectures, and, perhaps more importantly, it allows the students an opportunity to retrieve the newly learned information. This form of retrieval practice has been experimentally demonstrated to be one of the most powerful learning techniques (Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Nathan, & Willingham, 2013; Karpicke & Blunt, 2011). ...
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...Multi-Armed Bandits in Active Learning Mojmir Vinkler 21. 11. 2013 Mojmir Vinkler () Multi-Armed Bandits in Active Learning 21. 11. 2013 1 / 12 Multi-armed bandit problem Originally considered by Allied scientists in World War II, it proved so intractable that, according to Peter Whittle, it was proposed the problem be dropped over Germany so that German scientists could also waste their time on it. Mojmir Vinkler () Multi-Armed Bandits in Active Learning 21. 11. 2013 2 / 12 Multi-armed bandit problem Problem statement Gambler faces m slot machines with hidden probabilities of winning µ1 , . . . , µm . Each turn he must decide which arm to pull. His aim is to maximize sum of rewards T rt or alternatively minimize total regret to t=1 always pulling the most profitable arm T ρ = T max µk − k t=1 rt His strategy is called zero-regret if 1 ρ=0 T →∞ T lim Mojmir Vinkler () Multi-Armed Bandits in Active Learning 21. 11. 2013 3 / 12 Exploration vs Exploitation Exploration = search for more profitable arms X Exploitation = collect reward from the most profitable arm Mojmir Vinkler () Multi-Armed Bandits in Active Learning 21. 11. 2013 4 / 12 Strategies Epsilon-greedy strategy The best lever is selected for a proportion 1 − of the trials, and another lever is randomly selected (with uniform probability) for a proportion . Epsilon-first strategy A pure exploration phase is followed by a pure exploitation...
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...Active learning is learning which engages and challenges students thinking using real-life and imaginary situations. Students are encouraged for example through the method of pair work to develop their own thoughts and ideas, to resolve problems by themselves, and to talk to and listen to their peers improving on their listening skills. (Chickering and Gamson1987), suggests that students must do more than just listen. ‘They must read, write, discuss, or be engaged in solving problems. Most important, to be actively involved, students must engage in such higher-order thinking tasks as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Within this context, it is proposed that strategies promoting active learning be defined as instructional activities involving students in doing things and thinking about what they are doing’.Students and their learning needs are at the center of active learning which makes it very effective when introducing this pedagogical approach in any lesson. Some active-learning techniques are easier to use in your class and some are harder when it comes to teaching. Teaching methods are constantly changing with teacher and school introducing new pedagogical approaches to teaching, but time and time again active learning producing a much higher sense of achievement and accomplishment in comparison to the old didactic methods of route learning in school. Teaching is becoming more practical nowadays where students are becoming actively more and more involved in...
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...I decided to write about the battlefield of Brandywine. I choose this topic because is an example of never get confident at war. This battle is mainly about how the British army takes over Philadelphia. The first major point I found interesting was how the Washington army overestimated the British army. The Washington army believed they could take an advantageous position and hoped to force a fight at chads ford. Another interesting point was the formulated plan by the British army. The British army made the Washington army believed they were going to march as if they intended to meet Washington. However the majority of the army march north of Wistar’s Ford and surprised the Washington army. This allowed the British to outwit Washington and his army. Another sub-section that I choose was the battle of Paoli. I choose this sub-section mainly because this battle occurred at midnight after Washington’s defeat at Brandywine. This battle is mainly about the surprise attack made by the British army. I think is interesting how Washington didn’t want to give up and send Wayne‘s Division to get behind the British and, if possible, cut off their baggage train as they crossed the river. Another interesting major point is how even though Wayne was trying to surprise the British instead Wayne was surprised first by the British army. I think this website was informative because explains in good details the events in history. I would use it again in the future when I take the second part...
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...would start working on my homework for a little while. Then I would stop doing my work for a hour or thirty minutes. Sometimes I can probably just give up on what I am doing. If I don’t understand school work, insurance paperwork, car payments information, etc. Active Learning is problem solving that promote analysis and evaluation of class content. Passive Learning is learning without a direct attempt. My first active learning strategy is to give students a list of key points to watch for each chapter that we go over in class. Because when we have that information, we can be better prepared for what to expect for a quiz or the final exam. When studying this information on our own time. We can remember information from each section of our textbook. When we a classroom discussion on each chapter, we can have answer to any question that is giving out by the teacher in class. The next strategy is for us as students to read different parts of a chapter of own choosing. I think that is better to do this during a class session. Where we can ask the teacher about the chapter that we read. Another option would be for to ask classmates what are their opinion or answers to the chapter. I believe that is the best active learning strategy to try in class or at home with family members. The final strategy involves making context clues before making own questions for each chapter. Context clues will help us make a final decision on what could be our final answer. The questions would be...
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...listeners. According to international research, passive learning has disadvantages mainly because students do not engage in the lesson. The study introduces a new model for higher education called TBAL: Technology-Based Active Learning. It intends to face the challenge of transfer to active learning, using mobile devices in face-to-face courses. Following a research undertaken at the Neri Bloomfield School of Design and Education (n = 67), the new model was found to be very successful. Students, who participated in the research, reported that courses based on TBAL principles, improved their learning process, were very experiential and had a significant contribution for better participation, collaboration and teamwork. The TBAL model was found to be applicable to courses based on text reading, in particular, but it may be also suitable for quantitative courses, subject to appropriate adjustments. Full Text * TranslateFull text * Turn on search term navigation Headnote Abstract In many institutions of higher education worldwide, faculty members manage lessons based on information transfer whereas their students become passive listeners. According to international research, passive learning has disadvantages mainly because students do not engage in the lesson. The study introduces a new model for higher education called TBAL: Technology-Based Active Learning. It intends to face the challenge of transfer to active learning, using mobile devices in face-to-face courses. Following...
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...Understanding how students learn and incorporating theories that best accommodate that learning is an important part of successful curriculum design and instruction. As teachers, we want to ensure our instruction is designed so that every student we teach is equally capable of learning the material presented. As educators, it is vital that we follow the advice of Grant Wiggins, who states in What’s My Job? Defining the Role of the Classroom Teacher (2010) that teachers should practice “the core obligations of successful learning: cause successful learning, cause greater interest, and make students feel competent and confident.” (15) Understanding and incorporating learning theories with which the teacher is most comfortable, and can best accommodate student learning, helps build successful curriculum design and instruction. I am a strong advocate of students learning by doing and often incorporate Bruner’s Discovery Learning theory into my curriculum planning and instruction. Today’s students are geared towards autonomy due to their deep immersion in the world of technology. My role of teacher has become one of modeler/facilitator versus direct step-by-step instruction. Bruner’s Discovery Theory, according to the Learning Theories Knowledgebase (April, 2011), enables students to “draw on his or her own past experience and existing knowledge to discover facts and relationships and new truths to be learned by interacting with the world by exploring…or performing experiments...
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...demographics change, information technology has become the criteria for successful performance both in the area of school and in academic life. Therefore, it has created the need of integrating technology into the area of education. One of the factors of technology is the use of multimedia. And one of the most popular tools of multimedia software used of technology in education is PowerPoint presentation. Fisher (2003) defines power point briefly as follows: “PowerPoint is a type of presentation software that allows one to show colored text and images with simple animation and sound. PowerPoint is just one of many types of presentation software.” PowerPoint can be a highly effective tool to aid learning, but if not used carefully, may instead disengage students and actually hinder learning. This study examines whether PPT improves students development of confidence. The aim of this study is to give the effects of the PPT usage in the first Year College of Education students major in English. Background of the study One of the techniques in improving the students’ to meet the academic needs and helps them...
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...and outdoors, I look for hazards in the area where the children will be playing, learning, and exploring. Before entering students should know the proper rules and procedures ahead of time in case of an emergency. Which means procedures and rules should be practiced at least once a week for a month or until there is no need for assistance. Staff should be fully trained and well equipped given an emergency during any time. Even if no assistance is needed supervision is always required, as well as supplies, materials, and equipment at hand or is known to be in a close range. To keep everyone healthy indoors and outdoors, I make sure sanitary procedures are stated and present. When entering or exiting an area students, staff, and classroom equipment should be well sanitized daily. For example hand washing before and after eating along with when children are playing indoors and outdoors. Staff should sanitize before and after dealing with each child to prevent the transferring of germs. Rest and nutrition are also a very important role in a child’s everyday life. Students should be immediately tended to when dealing with allergy emergencies no matter how severe. Naps are required in a child care center, children should have a chance to rest during the day specifically children ages new born to five. To ensure I create an active learning environment indoors and outdoors, I keep activities active and very communicative. I like for the kids to experience something new every day...
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...In this assignment, I will reflect on my teaching section I am going to use Gibbs (1988) Reflective cycle. This model is a recognised framework for my reflection. Gibbs (1988) consists of six stages to complete one cycle which is able to improve my teaching section continuously and learning from the experience for better practice in the future. The cycle starts with a description of the situation, next is to analysis of the feelings, third is an evaluation of the experience, fourth stage is an analysis to make sense of the experience, fifth stage is a conclusion of what else could I have done and final stage is an action plan to prepare if the situation arose again. (Source :Gibbs 1988) Gustaffsson and Fagerberg (2004) emphasizes on the advantages that could be gained from reflection mainly among registered nurses or RNs. They examine the questions on the implications of nurses’ reflections, the subject matter of their reflection and how they are able to deal with their reflection and how they improve their professional approach through reflection. The authors describe the experiences of the nurses and their reflection in relation to the nursing situations to understand how the nurses use reflection in their daily work. I am going to use the same approach to analyse my teaching section and improve where I have lacked to achieve required standards. Baird and Winter (2005) gave some rationale why reflection is required in the practice. They state that a reflect is to generate...
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...Active Directory Scenario: The small business that you created new domain controllers for now wants you to develop a backup and recovery plan for Active Directory. You also need to develop a monitoring scheme to ensure the new Active Directory environment remains available. Explain this backup and recovery plan along with the tools needed to monitor the active directory environment. Submission Requirements: Submit your response in a 1-2 page Microsoft Word document through the Questa Learning Plan. Evaluation Criteria: Your instructor will use the following points for evaluating your performance in this assessment: * Did you discuss a backup strategy or Active Directory? * Did you discuss a recovery plan for Active Directory? * Did you discuss a monitoring scheme for Active Directory? Windows Server Backup provides several Group Policy settings that give you some limited control over how backups work on your servers. With these backup policies, you can mitigate some of the risks associated with people performing unauthorized backups to obtain access to unauthorized data. The options include: Allow Only System Backup If this is set, Windows Server Backup can only back up critical system volumes. It cannot perform volume backups. Disallow Locally Attached Storage as Backup Target When enabled, this setting does not allow backups to locally attached drives. You can only back up to a network share. Disallow Network as Backup Target This setting does not...
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...NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Learner: Barry C. Archie THIS FORM MUST BE COMPLETELY FILLED IN Please Follow These Procedures: If requested by your mentor, use an assignment cover sheet as the first page of the word processor file. The assignment header should include the Learner’s last name, first initial, course code, dash, and assignment number (DoeJXXX0000-1) justified to the left and the page number justified to the right. Keep a Photocopy or Electronic Copy of Your Assignments: You may need to re-submit assignments if your mentor has indicated that you may or must do so. Academic Integrity: All work submitted in each course must be the Learner’s own. This includes all assignments, exams, term papers, and other projects required by the faculty mentor. The known submission of another person’s work represented as that of the Learner’s without properly citing the source of the work will be considered plagiarism and will result in an unsatisfactory grade for the work submitted or for the entire course, and may result in academic dismissal. || CT7001|Christopher Stabile| || The Role of the Teacher Practitioner|ArchieBCT7001-4| || Faculty Use Only Personal Capacities Barry C. Archie Northcentral University Reflective Practice requires possession of specific skill-sets in order to increase pedagogical efficiency. York-Barr, Sommers, Ghere...
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...Active Directory Benefits The biggest difference between these two server operating systems and Windows NT is the addition of Active Directory. Although there is a bit of a learning curve associated with implementing an Active Directory environment, the benefits of doing so far outweigh the negatives. A better representation of the network Centralization sums up my primary reason for implementing Active Directory. The Active Directory structure makes it possible for you to achieve truly centralized management of users, regardless of how big your client’s network has become. If you've worked with Windows NT before, you know that in Windows NT a domain is a completely independent entity. While it's possible to create a trust relationship between domains that exist on a common network, the domains are never truly integrated with each other because there is no higher authority that manages the domains. Seeing through the forest The situation is different with Active Directory. Whereas the domain level was the highest level of abstraction in Windows NT, the highest level of abstraction in Windows 2000 and 2003 Server is the forest, which is basically a collection of domains. Microsoft chose to call this unit a forest because you can place domains into the forest, and you can place entire trees of domains into it. A domain tree consists of a parent, child, grandchildren, and great grandchildren domains. You can have as many layers of subdomains within a domain tree as is necessary...
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...listening it could definitely have positive outcomes on where I want to be in my career. The main strategy of effective listening that I think I need to personally work on would be “Mindful” (Wood p 160). In my work situation being mindful would be me learning to in our group meeting situations to let people speak all the way through even if they are totally off topic, not to try and dominate the talk stage. At work I would also want to work on my “active listening skills” (wood p160) which I know is hard work but it will force me to ask questions and let the other person know I am interested in what they are saying and I am actually taking it in. It would also force me to ask questions because I know myself personally, if I am not actively listen my mind wanders on to other things and I won’t ask questions and I won’t retain a word that was said. These same techniques can help me in my personal life as well because a lot of times my husband will have important information that he needs to discuss with me, and to be honest with you I would really only use my selective listening because I am so tired from what has been going on all day that I am not being fully attentive. So in my personal life I would also work on mindfulness and active listening skills. In my personal life I will work on clearing my head and focusing on what my husband is saying and I will work on responding appropriately so that he knows that I am listening because right now he...
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...The Art of Listening www.humanikaconsulting.com Learning outcomes • Explain what we mean by listening skills • Identify why listening skills are important, from an employability perspective • Identify key reasons why we often fail to listen effectively • Adopt simple listening techniques to ensure that you listen effectively Introduction • Almost 45% of time we spend in listening. • An essential management and leadership skill. • A process of receiving, interpreting and reacting to a message. • Difference between listening & hearing Why Be A Good Listener? Needs of the Customer… • To be recognized and remembered • To feel valued • To feel appreciated • To feel respected • To feel understood • To feel comfortable about a want or need Traits of a Good Listener • • • • • Being non-evaluative Paraphrasing Reflecting implications Reflecting hidden feelings Inviting further contributions • Responding non-verbally Percentage of Communication Mode of Communication Writing Reading Speaking Listening Formal Years of Training 12 years 6-8 years 1-2 years 0-few hours Percentage of Time Used 9% 16 % 30% 45% Listening is the most powerful form of acknowledgment …a way of saying, “You are important.” Listening builds stronger relationships …creates a desire to cooperate among people because they feel accepted and acknowledged. Listening promotes being heard …”Seek first to understand, then be understood.” - Stephen Covey Listening creates...
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