QUESTIONS TO PROMOTE SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING

Emilio ValdiviaAET/531

05/19/2014Dr. Sean Spear

INTRODUCTION

• Self-Directed Learners• Questions for Adult Learners about course

and questions to encourage in depth responses. • An analysis questioning techniques. • Current system of questioning.• Problem-based learning.• Summary of questioning techniques. • How assignment promotes self-directed

learning.

QUESTIONS ABOUT COURSE

Five Basic Questions

• What is self-directed learning?

• What are Web 2.0 tools?• What are Social

Networking sites? • What are Information

feeds?• What are Virtual

Collaborative Sites?

Five Rewritten Questions

• How can self-directed learning help students and instructors?

• How can Web 2.0 technologies enhance learning?

• What social networking sites are useful for instructors and students to share information?

• How can information feeds build collaboration skills for students?

• How can virtual sites help the instructor and students to communicate?

AN ANALYSIS OF QUESTIONING TECHNIQUES TO SUPPORT LEARNING

• Ask important questions in chat room or on a discussion board. • Ask questions that require higher order thinking skills. • Challenge students to explain viewpoints. • Pose questions that are open-ended. • Questions help students to become engaged.

CHALLENGES INHERENT IN THE CURRENT SYSTEM OF QUESTIONING

• Questions lead students to offer personal opinions.

• Questions lead to life experiences.

• Challenge for instructor includes obtaining thinking skills from students.

• Questions should require students to do research to obtain information.

• Questions should challenge students to quote scholarly authors.

CONNECT QUESTIONING TO PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING

• Identify topics.• Map out concepts.• Meet state standards.• Generate outcomes

and objectives. • Design problematic

scenarios. • Formulate strategies. • Use problematic

scenarios.

SUMMARY WHY SOUND QUESTIONING TECHNIQUES SUPPORT INDEPENDENT LEARNING

• Student participation occurs as questions are widely distributed.• High level cognitive questions help to stimulate

learning.• Student understanding increases.• Student thinking is stimulated, directed, and

extended.• feedback and appropriate reinforcement occur.• Critical thinking abilities are developed. • Student creativity.

HOW THIS ASSIGNMENT PROMOTES SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING

• Assignment helps students to become engaged.

• Adults need to take responsibility of learning.

• Assignment encourages students to become critical thinkers.

• Student shares his or her in depth knowledge about self-directed learning.

• Student is motivated to complete assignment.

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

• Knowles, M.S., Holton, E.F., & Swanson, R.A. (2005). The adult learner: the definitive classic in adult education and human resource development (6th ed.). Amsterdam ; Boston: Elesvier.• Bellanca, J., & Brandt, R. (2010). 21st century

skills: Rethinking how students learn. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.