The key concepts in the goals for students are self-directed learning and collaborative learning.
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What is Self-Directed Learning (SDL)? |
Self-directed learning (SDL) involves initiating personally challenging activities and developing personal knowledge and skills to pursue the challenges successfully (Gibbons, 2002).
For students engaged in self-directed learning, there will be:
- Ownership of Learning
- Management and Monitoring of Own Learning
- Extension of Own Learning
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What are some indicators of SDL? |
Students who are self-directed learners might display some of the following behaviours:
Construct 1: Ownership of Learning
1. Student sets learning targets for himself/herself.
Construct 2: Management and Monitoring of Own Learning
2. Student knows which parts of the lessons he/she does not understand.
3. Student asks questions when he/she is not sure about the lessons.
4. Student looks for more information to help him/her understand the lessons better.
5. Student makes a list of what he/she needs to do for his/her learning.
6. Student completes his/her schoolwork on time.
7. Student tries to understand where he/she went wrong in his/her schoolwork.
8. Student tries different ways to solve problems on his/her own.
Construct 3: Extension of Own Learning
9. Student uses what he/she learns in class after his/her lessons.
10. Student finds out more than what his/her teachers teach him/her in school.
11. Student uses the computer to
- go online to ask people outside his/her school for ideas on his/her lessons;
- become better at a skill that he/she is interested in e.g. learn a language; and/or
- get ideas from different websites and people to learn more about a topic.
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How can ICT be used to encourage such SDL behaviour(s) in students? Need ideas? 
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What is Collaborative Learning (CoL)? |
Collaborative learning (CoL) is where students work in pairs or groups to solve a problem or to achieve a common learning objective (Barkley et al., 2005).
For students engaged in collaborative learning, there will be:
- Effective Group Processes
- Individual and Group Accountability of Learning
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What are some indicators of CoL? |
Students who engage in collaborative learning might display some of the following behaviours:
Construct 1: Effective Group Processes
1. When a student works in a group,
- he/she listens carefully to ideas from his/her group members;
- he/she asks questions to better understand his/her group members’ ideas;
- he/she shares ideas with his/her group members;
- everyone agrees on what everyone must do;
- everyone discusses how they will do the group work;
- he/she completes the work that he/she needs to do;
- he/she uses computing tools (e.g. discussion forums, MSN Messenger, wikis) to discuss with his/her group members on what needs to be done for their project;
- he/she uses computing tools (e.g. discussion forums, MSN Messenger, wikis) to work with his/her group members to complete a project;
- he/she uses computing tools (e.g. discussion forums, MSN Messenger, wikis) to gather information for their project from people outside his/her school; and/or
- he/she uses computing tools (e.g. discussion forums, MSN Messenger, wikis) to share his/her thoughts with his/her group members on how they can work better together.
Construct 2: Individual and Group Accountability of Learning
2. When a student works in a group,
- he/she tries to help his/her group members to complete the group’s work; and/or
- he/she uses computing tools (e.g. discussion forums, MSN Messenger, wikis) to check if his/her group members have completed their work.
3. At the end of a project, the group discusses how well they have worked together and how they could have worked better together.
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How can ICT be used to encourage such CoL behaviour(s) in students? | |
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