Day 4

16/6/2017

'Reflective Practice' was introduced in the class. The learning cycle with Plan, Act, Observe, and Reflect points was shown to the group and illustrate how this cycle is apply on driving. 

Then the Kolb's learning cycle was taught to the class. There are four major groups in according to the Kolb's learning cycle: accommodating, assimilating, divergent, and convergent. They are group according to the following four features: doing, feeling, reflective, and thinking.

Next, we learned about three different Learning Theories, which are

• Behaviorism
• Cognitive
• Humanism

There is no single best method in learning. 

We had an activity where we discussed the features of an effective teacher.
Attitudes in a teacher are highly important in effective teaching.

We attend a presentation on Effective visual communication by Dr. Dinil Abeygunawardene. Dr. Dinil presented how the shapes that we used to illustrate our ideas can change the message easily. In addition, the effect of background, contrast, and brightness on conveying the message.

 To be continue...
 

Day 3

2/6/2017

Communication is very important in the class room. Therefore, preparation for the class plays a key role. Training can help to improve your communication in the class. A question was raised 'how do you express your ideas to the students effectively and easily understandable ways?'
Prepare yourself to deliver the content more effectively, update yourself with latest technology, and motivate students are some of the suggestions discussed in the class.

Following topics were discussed during the class.
Learning techniques
Attention span
Passive and active learning
Deep and surface approaches in learning
 
 

Day 1

21st April 2017
 
This is the first day of CTHE2017 class. We were given an introduction about the class by Dr. R.B. Marasinghe. 

The class was divided into seven groups and asked to present our expectations on one of the main topics that is going to be covered in the class. It was a group activity. After we presented our points one by one, Dr. Marasinghe showed some pictures he took while we were doing the group work. 

He mention the key characters in a group: leader, note taker (secretary), and a presenter. He also point out that a person with less interaction (or the idling person) with the group might knows the entire subject matter that group is discussing, does not know anything, does not want to involve (tired or sleepy), or does not want to disturb the flow. There was a question from the class: What if the number of idling people in a group is more than one?.

Editing continue....