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Designing Self Directed Learning
ProjectsDr. Bernard Bullwww.cuw.eduwww.etale.org@bdean1000
“Capable People”
“The world is no place for the inflexible, the unprepared,
and the ostrich with head in sand, and this applies to organizations as well as
individuals.”
http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~steve/pr/Heutagogy.html
Self-directed Learning“...the individual takes the initiative and
the responsibility for what occurs. Individuals select, manage, and assess
their own learning activities...”
http://selfdirectedlearning.com/
Self-directed Learning“Broadly, as a process in which
individuals take the initiative with or without the help of other[s], to diagnose their learning needs,
formulate learning goals, identify resources for learning, select and
implement learning strategies, and evaluate learning outcomes.” –
Malcolm Knowles, 1975
Self-directed Learning“Self-directed learning is any increase in knowledge, skill, accomplishment or
personal development that an individual selects and brings about by
his or her own efforts, using any method, in any circumstances, at any
time.” – Maurice Gibbons
4H Self-Determined Project
1. Decide what you want to do for your project.
2. Develop a plan for how to do it.3. Determine what help you need to
do each part.4. Design a means
of documenting your progress.5. Disseminate (share) what you did
and what you learned along the way.
http://etale.org/main/2013/09/15/5-simple-steps-to-developing-a-self-determined-learning-plan/
John Milton Gregory 1888The Seven Laws of Teaching
1. A teacher must be one who knows the lesson or truth to be taught.2. A learner is one who attends with interest to the lesson given.3. The language used as a medium between teacher and learner must be common to both.4. The lesson to be learned must be explicable in the terms of truth already known by the learner.5. Teaching is arousing and using the pupil’s mind to form in it a desired conception or thought.
John Milton Gregory 1888The Seven Laws of Teaching
6. Learning is thinking into one’s own under standing a new idea or truth. re-knowing, and re-producing of the knowledge taught.7. The test and proof of teaching done — the finishing and fastening process — must be a re-viewing, re-thinking, re-knowing, and re-producing of the knowledge taught.
2. A self-directed learner asks great
questions, establishes the
desired learning goal & attends to
pursuing & achieving that goal.
The Law of the Lesson
3. The self-directed learner discovers the
languages & discourses necessary to reach the desired
learning goal.
The Law of Language
4. The self-directed learner builds brain
bridges between what she already
knows and can do & what she aspires to
know and do.
The Law of Bridges
5. The self-directed learner aspires to
learn how to motivate herself &
what motivates her.
The Law of Self-Knolwedge
7. The self-directed learner establishes authentic feedback
loops that help monitor progress.
The Law of Feedback
1. What do I need/want to learn?2. Who/what will be my teachers?3. How will I use what I already
know/have to learn it?4. How will I know when I’ve
learned it?5. How will I monitor my
progress?6. How will I stay motivated?7. How will I make it deep and
lasting?
Designing Self Directed Learning
ProjectsDr. Bernard Bullwww.cuw.eduwww.etale.org@bdean1000