Final Portfolio Project
Facilitation, Transfer Strategies, and Learning Style Report
Revisit the results of your learning style inventory completed at the start of the course. What learning theories support your preferred learning style?
As I review my results and reflect of my Learning Style Inventory, I understand that creating auditory learning activities embedded into text and graphics helps me with learning transfer. For my project, I've added auditory segments to the lesson to help a learner similar to myself learn more effectively.
As a solitary learner, I enjoy pre-work for the reflective opportunities it provides me before I come to the discussion board to exchange ideas. I set up pre-work for my lesson so learners would have an opportunity to think about the class before jumping into it. Also, I like to use reflective practice to continue my thinking and learning after the class has concluded. For this reason, I posed a question with the PowerPoint and as well as in video form to help learners like me extend their learning.
I've also set up discussion groups so district managers can ask question and clarify instructions with their Regional Manager. Since I typically interact with my instructor via email, I set this up to model what works for my learning style.
Theorists that impact my teaching and Learning include:
Knowles - Androgogy
Vygotsky - Social Cognitive Development
Kolb - Experimental Learning
Bandura - Social Learning
Solomon & Perkins - High Road/Low Road Transfer
This is blurry. The 6 cirles to the left at the top, are the learning theorists.
What instructional and facilitation strategies in the online environment would aid learning transfer for someone with this preferred style of learning?
Instructional and facilitation strategies that work for me include embedded audio, plus the introduction of new tools to try out. I was introduced to the visual tool, a concept map, in this course and have used it to create additional assignments with the tool. Effective facilitation strategies include thought provoking questioning that demands reflection. I've added a final question to my lesson that's very thought provoking.
Using your preferred learning style to help define the target audience’s learning preference, prepare a short learning experience/lesson that integrates these strategies. Research specific tools or techniques that aid learning transfer. Integrate one or more of these tools/techniques into your lesson.
I've integrated many tools into my project with a focus on key tools that help me learn. After the initial pre-work, I'm often a very collaborate learner. To address that learning need, I'm delivering my final project in a blog. I've also asked a number of friends, family members, colleagues and classmates to follow it. This creates a true collaborate and constructivist learning experience!
How do you learn? Which learning theories support your preferred style?
Learning Style: Auditory and Solitary
I’ve taken a number of learning style surveys for various classes at CSU Global and always enjoy reflecting on the contradictions that my combination of auditory, solitary and constructivist learning styles brings to me as a person and as a learner. When I preparing for a job interview, I often list the 5 adjectives that describe me as a person and I always have to figure out how to spin contradiction in a positive way. It is truly the hallmark of my personality.
The 30% of the class work at CSU Global that is collaborate and discussion based is very important to me, as it gives me the opportunity to expand my current view on the topic I’m studying. As a solitary, auditory learner, I read, watch video and reflect on the subject I’m learning and then need a group to help me expand my thinking on the topic. The group helps me consider different points of view and really refine my opinions.
According to learning-styles-online, I prefer to learn alone using self-study. When I spend time with an instructor or a teacher, I often only clarify information I haven’t be able to clarify for myself. I also need to make sure I ask questions like: “What’s in this for me?” “Why does this matter?”, “How can I use this idea?” I also need to be aware of my inner thoughts and feeling towards various topics because these thoughts have more of an impact on my motivation and ability to learn than they do in other learning styles. (1)
Constructivism most closely aligns with my learning style as it stresses the personal meaning of the learning experience and that new information must be related to existing information for the learner to retain and use it. Some constructivist instructional principles include:
1. Anchor all learning activities to a larger task or problem.
2. Support the learner in developing ownership for the overall problem or test.
3. Design an authentic task.
4. Give learner ownership of the process used to develop a situation.
5. Design the learning environment to support and challenge the learner’s thinking.
6. Encourage testing ideas against alternative views and alternative contexts.
7. Provide opportunity for and support reflection on both the content learned and the learning process.
8. Design the task and the learning environment to reflect the complexity of the environment in which learners should be able to function at the end of the learning. (2)
The discussion board provides a venue for me to test my ideas and obtain alternative views. As an auditory learner, I translate the written discussions into a verbal dialogue. The reflection piece is also verbal as I turn the process into a verbal dialogue in my head.
Instructional and facilitation strategies that work for me include embedded audio, plus the introduction of new tools to try out. I was introduced to the visual tool, a concept map, in this course and have used it to create additional assignments with the tool. Effective facilitation strategies include thought provoking questioning that demands reflection. I've added a final question to my lesson that's very thought provoking.
Using your preferred learning style to help define the target audience’s learning preference, prepare a short learning experience/lesson that integrates these strategies. Research specific tools or techniques that aid learning transfer. Integrate one or more of these tools/techniques into your lesson.
I've integrated many tools into my project with a focus on key tools that help me learn. After the initial pre-work, I'm often a very collaborate learner. To address that learning need, I'm delivering my final project in a blog. I've also asked a number of friends, family members, colleagues and classmates to follow it. This creates a true collaborate and constructivist learning experience!
How do you learn? Which learning theories support your preferred style?
Learning Style: Auditory and Solitary
I’ve taken a number of learning style surveys for various classes at CSU Global and always enjoy reflecting on the contradictions that my combination of auditory, solitary and constructivist learning styles brings to me as a person and as a learner. When I preparing for a job interview, I often list the 5 adjectives that describe me as a person and I always have to figure out how to spin contradiction in a positive way. It is truly the hallmark of my personality.
The 30% of the class work at CSU Global that is collaborate and discussion based is very important to me, as it gives me the opportunity to expand my current view on the topic I’m studying. As a solitary, auditory learner, I read, watch video and reflect on the subject I’m learning and then need a group to help me expand my thinking on the topic. The group helps me consider different points of view and really refine my opinions.
According to learning-styles-online, I prefer to learn alone using self-study. When I spend time with an instructor or a teacher, I often only clarify information I haven’t be able to clarify for myself. I also need to make sure I ask questions like: “What’s in this for me?” “Why does this matter?”, “How can I use this idea?” I also need to be aware of my inner thoughts and feeling towards various topics because these thoughts have more of an impact on my motivation and ability to learn than they do in other learning styles. (1)
Constructivism most closely aligns with my learning style as it stresses the personal meaning of the learning experience and that new information must be related to existing information for the learner to retain and use it. Some constructivist instructional principles include:
1. Anchor all learning activities to a larger task or problem.
2. Support the learner in developing ownership for the overall problem or test.
3. Design an authentic task.
4. Give learner ownership of the process used to develop a situation.
5. Design the learning environment to support and challenge the learner’s thinking.
6. Encourage testing ideas against alternative views and alternative contexts.
7. Provide opportunity for and support reflection on both the content learned and the learning process.
8. Design the task and the learning environment to reflect the complexity of the environment in which learners should be able to function at the end of the learning. (2)
The discussion board provides a venue for me to test my ideas and obtain alternative views. As an auditory learner, I translate the written discussions into a verbal dialogue. The reflection piece is also verbal as I turn the process into a verbal dialogue in my head.
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