NJY Thrive Reflection

In Sadlers (1989) seminar work, effective feedback requires are three conditions: (1) a standard or exemplar for learners to aim towards, (2) a comparison of their own work with the standard or exemplar first by producing their own initial work, and (3) the engagement of work to close the gap (in term of skills or knowledge).  I had given them exemplars of what good design looks like to make the comparison and aim towards but did not record my (1) "exemplars" progress and (2) leveraged their prior knowledge.  The examplar progress is as important as the exemplar outcome. While the purpose of the random lines technique is to let students imagine an interesting shape out of random lines, there is a particular way expert and novice will draw these random lines and imagine a shape out of these random line. That is, the so-called random line is not exactly random. Thus, the importance of showing the expert progress.  However, having demonstrated expert progress is not enough, ...

From the book by Learning Theories: An Educational Perspective by Schunk (2012) 6th edition, there are three main schools of thought about learning - Behaviorism, Cognitivism and Constructivism. To what extent. Behaviourism - are we still adopting it in the 21 Century? The relevant focus is training our sensory responses in terms of learning by providing the right condition to do so. Yes, We are still doing it and there is nothing wrong with it, as far as what I know. Below are two examples of "behaviourism" explained as conditioning theories of learning.  Conditioning theories  explain learning in terms of environmental events while not denying the existence of mental phenomena but deems it  not necessary  to explain learning.  (1) O and N level results analysis in 2022 - how do we explain learning "The afternoon one-to-one consultation continue to maintain good results in coursework performance." Assumption: Our students have yet to be able to think for themse...