Hands on learning
I find that as a librarian that hands on learning helps students learn citation ruled extremely well. First, however, I must teach them the rules and I use PowerPoints coupled with lecture on the topic.
Hi Michael:
In fact, most pedogogy philosophies support this same idea - most adult learners learn best by doing activities in a hand's on way. Additionally, it becomes a challenge to the instructor to think of activities for more conceptual topics.
Regards, Barry
in my class i like to say you read you see you do it. wash, rinse, repeat... we talk about it you see me demo it then you get to try it.
I feel tha hands on learning allows the stuedent to take what they been taught and apply it alot of students learn best this way..
Hi Jenny:
Hands on learning and real world examples are a great way to drive home understanding about a topic. This is especially true when dealing with career oriented classes.
Regards, Barry
Hi Nolan:
Hands on learning and real world examples are a great way to drive home understanding about a topic. This is especially true when dealing with career oriented classes.
Regards, Barry
Hi Terri:
Hands on learning and real world examples are a great way to drive home understanding about a topic. This is especially true when dealing with career oriented classes.
Regards, Barry
Hi Nuance:
Real world examples are a great way to drive home understanding about a topic. This is especially true when dealing with career oriented classes.
Regards, Barry
Hi Beverly:
This is a great way to get the students involved in the discussion, definitely a fun way of making the class more robust.
Regards, Barry
Hi Hiliana:
If using PPT, one general, all-purpose guideline to remember about using power-point is this – don’t read the slides to the students. Unless you’re deliberately trying to make a point, reading slides is the quickest way to have students tune out during the lesson.
Instead, it’s better to cover the main points on the slide, and have the students refer to the notes on their own.
Regards, Barry
I feel that is a great idea because hands on experience really help in many learning situations.
I think that having a guided exercise is one of the best ways to teach students and get the information to the students. So much of what we teach is foreign to the students and we can lose them if they don't understand or gasp the concept right away. By having a guided exercise, I would think an instructor could better demonstrate what to do and better answer questions that come up. It also allows other students to think critically and they can also help guide students along the way.
I agree that having students actually work hands-on with a task takes it to another level of learning. I'm also a librarian, and one of the topics always covered in instruction sessions is searching library databases. Often, students will give me blank stares when I'm attempting to explain good search techniques. But when I have students do a guided exercise, they seem to get much more out of it.
I agree that hands on learning is very effective. Having taught legal citation, students would have a difficult time truly understanding the concepts without a significant amount of hands on exercises and utilizing the library and citation tools.
Hi Pamela:
Most vocational course are centered on teaching practical skills that lead to better jobs for the graduates. Atheletes do drills, musician practice, so it it makes sense that for perefection of a skill, there needs to be ample practice time.
Regards, Barry
i believe in hands on as well because some students learn better in that sense
AS A COSMETOLOGY INSTRUCTOR HANDS ON IS A MUST ,I CAN DEMONSTRATE UNTIL THE COWS COME HOME, BUT IF THEY CAN NOT TRY IT THEIR SELF, THE LEARNING IS NOT COMPLETE. I ALSO USE POWER POINT, AND THEN I HAVE ONE DOLL HEAD IN A COMPLETED STYLE, I DEMO ON ANOTHER THEN WE PRACTICE PRACTICE, PRACTICE.
I teach many course involved in Medical Assisting, but most students say the "light bulb" moment happens when they actual do the task we spoke of.. Hands on completes the cycle for most of my students.
For some people, hands-on instructions is the only way to go. I teach massage and the more hands-on they get, the more it sinks in. My students seem to be drawn to the massage program, because they know it will be more hands-on.
Power point lectures plus other review resources can be used on the regular bases, but practical and observation techniques are the ones I find the most useful when explainning an specific subject
