Aprendizaje activo. Serie sobre cómo aprender a aprender mejor ¿Qué es el aprendizaje activo? El aprendizaje activo es un aprendizaje consciente, activo y basado en la experiencia. El aprendizaje activo consiste en la utilización de un conjunto de métodos experimentales más eficaces e interesantes. Con el aprendizaje activo los estudiantes asumen una mayor responsabilidad sobre su propia educación. Ello resulta especialmente importante en un entorno de enseñanza a distancia, en que es probable que ni el profesor ni los alumnos se conozcan entre sí.
Para comenzar: definir el contenido (qué vamos a estudiar) y establecer los objetivos (qué vamos a aprender). Se pueden implementar estas tareas iniciales de una forma individual: La escucha activa: La escucha activa es una escucha intencional, que se concentra en el hablante, ya sea en una clase, en una conversación privada o en un grupo. Observar/ver: Observar las imágenes, fotografías, gráficos y mapas (como por ejemplo, la pirámide de aprendizaje a continuación). Active Learning Leads to Higher Grades and Fewer Failing Students in Science, Math, and Engineering | Science Blogs. Image Credit: velkr0 / Flickr Think back to when you learned how to ride a bike. You probably didn’t master this skill by listening to a series of riveting lectures on bike riding. Instead, you tried it out for yourself, made mistakes, fell down a few times, picked yourself back up, and tried again. When mastering an activity, there’s no substitute for the interaction and feedback that comes from practice.
What if classroom learning was a little more active? Would university instruction be more effective if students spent some of their class time on active forms of learning like activities, discussions, or group work, instead of spending all of their class time listening? A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences addressed this question by conducting the largest and most comprehensive review of the effect of active learning on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education.
Before you study something quantitatively, you have to define it. 1. 2. Education for Life and Work. The Computer as a Tool for Learning through Reflection. Technical Report No. 376., 1986-Mar. Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. Author Affiliations Edited* by Bruce Alberts, University of California, San Francisco, CA, and approved April 15, 2014 (received for review October 8, 2013) Significance The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has called for a 33% increase in the number of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) bachelor’s degrees completed per year and recommended adoption of empirically validated teaching practices as critical to achieving that goal.
The studies analyzed here document that active learning leads to increases in examination performance that would raise average grades by a half a letter, and that failure rates under traditional lecturing increase by 55% over the rates observed under active learning. The analysis supports theory claiming that calls to increase the number of students receiving STEM degrees could be answered, at least in part, by abandoning traditional lecturing in favor of active learning.
Abstract Footnotes. What Is Active Learning? Defining "active learning" is a bit problematic. The term means different thing to different people, while for some the very concept is redundant since it is impossible to learn anything passively. Certainly this is true, but it doesn't get us very far toward understanding active learning and how it can be applied in college classrooms. We might think of active learning as an approach to instruction in which students engage the material they study through reading, writing, talking, listening, and reflecting. Active learning stands in contrast to "standard" modes of instruction in which teachers do most of the talking and students are passive. Think of the difference between a jar that's filled and a lamp that's lit. In the former case, liquid is poured into an empty vessel–an apt metaphor for the traditional educational paradigm in which students sit passively in a classroom and absorb the knowledge transmitted by an expert.
Basic Elements of Active Learning Talking and Listening Writing. Stem Cell Flash Mob. Bio Flash Mob at MIT. Cell cakes.