NEW LEARNING
In the last post, we talked about
how literacy has changed over these years, what kinds of literacy are, and why
we must know this literacy in order to know how to carry out our teach
properly.
However, learning processes have also changed from traditional learning,
looking for new ways to develop new learning processes focussed on experiences
and emotions, which help to reach a long and scaffolding learning.
Pedagogical learning, also called Didactic Learning, was the first type
of learning which was developed by the teacher’s years ago. In this type of
learning, the teacher is the one who always speaks, and the students only
listen what the teacher is saying. It´s a question-answer learning process
where the students build knowledge using processes like memorizing and
repeating. Finally, the teacher is understood like the authority, and the
students are just passive learners.
On the other hand, New Learning, it’s the new learning process every
teacher uses these days to achieve good results in their student's academic and
personal development.
The architecture of this New Learning is so complicated. It is formed by
three pieces, the physical, the knowledge, and the communication.
The physical architecture explains the importance of how we build our
class, how we structure the desks, the chairs... also the importance of
decorating the class walls and the aisle between desks.
The knowledge architecture is focused on what the students know, what
are their previous knowledge, what are their interests, and the use of
scaffolding learning.
The communication architecture is focused on the relationships between
students and teachers, and also between students and students. As well as to
reach good learning, it is used also a part of the traditional methods, like
reading or writing, others like speaking and listening.
So, New Learning allows students to have lots of interactions between
them, and teachers build student´s scaffolding knowledge with all the students
interactions. It is used some new techniques of communications such as
dialogue, which make students have an active role and being more participative.
Finally, if we want to be good teachers, we must keep in mind the
pyramid of knowledge retention rates. Because it allows us to truly understand
which are the best teaching methods.
We can organize this pyramid in two different classifications, the
passive teaching methods, and the active teaching methods. The passive teaching
methods is composed by lecture, reading, audio-visual and demonstration processes.
The active teaching methods is composed by learn by doing, discussion in group,
and teach others what you have learnt.
In brief, all what I have said will be resumed in a pyramid graphic,
where you will be able to see with more accuracy what’s are the numbers of percentage.
