Interactive learning is an approach to education that actively engages students through guided social interaction and hands-on activities. It seeks to get students participating in the learning process through techniques like enhanced lectures, flipped classrooms, peer instruction, and team-based learning. These strategies foster collaboration and critical thinking skills. Interactive learning benefits students by sharpening their critical thinking, teaching collaboration skills, and increasing engagement with the material.
Interactive learning is an approach to education that actively engages students through guided social interaction and hands-on activities. It seeks to get students participating in the learning process through techniques like enhanced lectures, flipped classrooms, peer instruction, and team-based learning. These strategies foster collaboration and critical thinking skills. Interactive learning benefits students by sharpening their critical thinking, teaching collaboration skills, and increasing engagement with the material.
Interactive learning is an approach to education that actively engages students through guided social interaction and hands-on activities. It seeks to get students participating in the learning process through techniques like enhanced lectures, flipped classrooms, peer instruction, and team-based learning. These strategies foster collaboration and critical thinking skills. Interactive learning benefits students by sharpening their critical thinking, teaching collaboration skills, and increasing engagement with the material.
• Interactive learning is a hands-on/real life approach to education founded upon building
student engagement through guided social interaction.Carefully designed and structured activities facilitate learning in groups, fostering a challenging but encouraging space for students to wrestle with novel concepts and develop practical skills. • Interactive learning is a technique that seeks to get students actively engaged in the learning process, often through the use of technology. This is in contrast to more passive techniques like the traditional lecture. STRATEGIES FOR INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENHANCE LEARNING This is a broad category that encompasses a range of interactive learning strategies in the classroom. At its simplest, an enhanced lecture can look very similar to a traditional lecture, only with the support of interactive learning tools that allow instructors to ask students frequent questions throughout. FLIPPED CLASSROOM The flipped classroom model gives students first-exposure learning prior to class. Contrary to what many people think, recording lectures for students to watch at home is not the only way to implement flipped learning. The important part is that there is guided learning outside of class –through a videoed lecture, a reading assignment, or some other method PEER INSTRUCTION Collaboration among students is a big part of building an interactive learning environment, and peer instruction is a great way to encourage it. This technique involves instructors lecturing for a short amount of time and, as in enhanced lecture, periodically asking their students questions about the subject matter. TEAM BASED LEARNING Team-based learning is a collaborative strategy designed around modules of instruction taught in a three-step cycle: preparation, in-class readiness assurance testing (taken first individually and then as a team), and an application-focused exercise that the team works to complete during class. TBL is an effective way to build a collaborative learning environment, no matter the class size. INTERACTIVE LEARNING BENEFITS • Interactive learning sharpens critical thinking skills, which are fundamental to the development of analytic reasoning. A child who can explore an open-ended question with imagination and logic is learning how to make decisions, as opposed to just regurgitating memorized information. Also, interactive learning teaches children how to collaborate and work successfully in groups, an indispensible skill as workplaces become more team-based in structure. • ENGAGEMENT • COLLABORATION
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