Tag: learner-centered

SIP 14.6 ‘Queering’ Your Curriculum: Teaching and Learning Beyond the Binary

Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? Often in our attempt to simplify learning, we reduce concepts to either/or, this side/that side, traditional/nontraditional, black/white and other binary constructs. By simplifying complex relations, ideas and thought into two sides, groups or elements that are diametrically opposite, we are using dichotomous or binary thinking. Dichotomous instruction has often …

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SIP 9.13 Self-Directed Learning

Thirsty for a Strong Instructional Practice? The Partnership for 21st-Century Skills, a national advocacy organization that encourages schools, districts and states to infuse technology into education, lists Self-Directed Learning as one of the life and career skills necessary to prepare students for postsecondary education and the workforce. What is Self-Directed Learning? According to Malcolm Knowles, …

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