Methods of Study
Methods of Study (hereinafter, the Lectio) is the second lesson part of the Educational Methods lesson that introduces its participants to educational methods and related topics.
This lesson belongs to the Introduction to Education session of the CNM Cyber Orientation. The Orientation is the second stage of the WorldOpp Pipeline.
Content
The predecessor lectio is Training Targets.
Key terms
- Educational method. An established procedure for one's education. These procedures are usually based on observation and direct experience. They can be grouped in several categories: narrated instruction, practical instruction, cognitive research, experiential learning, or any combination of those.
- Learning activity. Something that a learner does or is offered to do for his or her learning.
- Learning sequence. Any sequence of learning activities or educational objectives that any human-learning theory or one's intuition suggests.
Script
- An educational method refers to any established procedure for one's education. These procedures are usually based on observation and direct experience. They can fit several categories such as learning content delivery, practical instruction, cognitive research, experiential learning. Any learning tends to use some combination of those.
- Imagine that you are learning to speak another language. Most likely, you get some syntax concepts and vocabulary words through learning content delivery. Practical instruction would be needed to work on your pronunciation. However, you will never speak another language fluently unless you start researching it, finding patterns, and try in various conditions and under various circumstances.
- Educational methods are usually made up of some learning activities organized with some learning sequences.
- A learning activity can be defined as something that a learner does or is offered to do for his or her learning.
- Learning sequences are chains of learning activities or educational objectives that some human-learning theory or one's intuition suggests.
Learning Contents is the successor lectio.
Questions
Lectio quiz
- The answer is recorded for the lectio completion purpose:
- Is the concept of educational method explained well? --Yes/No/I'm not sure/Let me think/Let's move on
