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it is a framework for technology-based teaching and learning it encompasses the fundamental idea that students must be engaged in activities through interaction with others and worldwide tasks the theory suggests there are three principles of engaged learning with a related collaboration through learning being the first where activities should emphasize team effort which emphasizes on communication management planning and social skill because when students are able to discuss and defend their ideas motivation to learn increases the second principle of engaged learning is create learning using a project based approach in this instance activities should be creative and purposeful when students are given the chance to define organize and complete their own projects they develop a sense of ownership of the project and of their own learning the last principle is donate learning using an authentic focus activity should have a meaningful and realistic focus ideally each project has an outside customer such as a campus group government agency and local business this better prepares students for the workforce in a given field the theory also states that in order for students to be productive they must find lessons meaningful and have a high level of interest in the task as they learn more effectively tend to retain the information when called upon and are able to integrate it into other activities class context the teacher could facilitate learning industry by integrating technology for example allowing students to collaborate using google docs and slideshare to work on presentation and support i see where the ideas of this theory are employed in the same course when we the students are placed into very cool rooms where we collaborate with each other to research on a given topic to present our finding in google doc or slideshare you
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- Terrence Lungstrom, Staff Member
select these levels of engagement in less than five minutes I promise if you watch this scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off you'll notice that even in the midst of a boring lesson none of the students are actually misbehaving they're quiet nobody's tossing spitballs or playing those paper football games or checking their cell phones because while the cell phones back then were the size of a brick remember the Zack Morris phone but most of the students are essentially following the rules they aren't engaged but what are they well some seem to be retreating the few seem to be playing the game of school but nobody is actually committed to the learning well here's where selectees levels of engagement becomes helpful and provides a useful framework for thinking about what it means for students to be genuinely engaged in their learning selectee defines it this way engagement is active it requires the students to be attentive as well as in attendance it requires students to be committed to the task and find some inherent value in what he or she is being asked to do the engaged student not only does the task assigned but also does the task with enthusiasm and diligence in 2002 Philip schlechty developed a framework for thinking about student engagement based on two core ideas of attention and commitment at the bottom you have rebellion which involves diverted attention and no commitment to the task this is the student who seems to be acting out and causing disruptions and as a result they fail to learn from the task next you have retreat ism with no attention and no commitment unlike the rebellion this student in retreat is not actively disrupting the learning but instead seems to be kind of checked out this student is often distracted and emotionally withdrawn from the task and as a result this student learns little or nothing from the task at the next level you have ritual compliance this involves both low attention and low commitment unlike retreat ism a ritually compliant student doesn't completely check out but instead is doing the bare minimum to avoid confrontation this student will learn at a low level and the task will not be retained over time next is strategic compliance often this looks like engagement because the student might be performing at a high level but it's not here the student has high attention on the task but low commitment to what he or she is doing this is the student who is playing the game of school focused on things like grades parental approval rewards and class rank but the learning isn't intrinsically rewarding and as a result this student who will often learn at a high level but fails to retain the learning over time or transfer it to a new content and then finally you have engagement this requires both high attention and high commitment Harris student completely buys in at a strong sense of intrinsic motivation and this includes meaning and choice and challenge this student will continue focusing even when the task gets more complex and challenging and often they're going to choose to learn even when it is ungraded this student will learn at a deep level and a transfer will continue to new context and this is why it's important that we as teachers focus on how to make the subject intrinsically engaging and this happens when we tap into student curiosity and creativity and purpose and when this happens students are more likely to grow into passionate lifelong learners
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- Terrence Lungstrom
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I've studied labor law at Alfred State College in Alfred and I am an expert in computational archaeology. I usually feel envious. My previous job was medical records technician I held this position for 28 years, I love talking about chemistry and art. Huge fan of Rupert Everett I practice golf and collect first day covers.
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