Who is Learning TooWho is Learning Too

Breaking down the wall that inhibits Breaking down the wall that inhibits learninglearning

The aim: Two-way rather than one-way communication

Creating a Learning Environment

Group Activities that validate individual contributions

Lesson Plans or schemes of work that promote the development of SKILLS rather than the acquisition of KNOWLEDGE

Encouraging non-Encouraging non-evaluative rather evaluative rather than evaluative than evaluative judgments: there judgments: there might not might not necessarily be one necessarily be one ‘right’ answer to ‘right’ answer to a question …a question …

Which would certainly confuse Sherlock Holmes

What is “critical thinking?”

CRITICISMS OF THIS APPROACH TO LEARNING:

• Unfocused

• Difficult to Evaluate or to Grade

• Inappropriate to the Subject of Study

• Learners Don’t Learn Anything

Times Higher Educational Times Higher Educational SupplementSupplement, May 13, 2011, May 13, 2011

At least a third and perhaps up to half of all university courses in the UK are loss-making, and many teaching-led universities have departments with no "meaningful existence" that are being kept afloat by profits from other areas.

London Metropolitan University's controversial decision to cut its courses by 70 per cent, closing down departments such as history, philosophy, performing arts and Caribbean studies, as it prepares for the new funding environment.

What About Turkey?What About Turkey?

Firms see a real need for foreignlanguage skills, analytical skills, social, behavioural and communications skills.

World Bank Survey of Turkish Universities, June 2010

Reshaping the Learning AgendaReshaping the Learning Agenda

Learners need to know WHY are doing a particular course or scheme of work, and how it will contribute

to developing their SKILLS

Learning is a Collaborative Process involving Learning is a Collaborative Process involving Educators and Learners AlikeEducators and Learners Alike

Educators (Teachers) need to develop the same skills as their

learners:

•Language Skills

•Social Skills

•Analytical Skills

LEARNING HAPPENS ANYWHERE AT ANY TIME

WE LEARN IN INDIVIDUAL WAYS

The Classroom as a site for SHARING learning experiences, not IMPOSING them

on others

Join Hands, Work Together, Learn Together