1B-3 Activity 4B Minimally Invasive Education

The minimally invasion education piece advocates that children will learn once exposed to stimuli for the learning and will even assist their peers with their learning. Of significance to me is the aspect of cooperative learning where children work with their peers to accomplish tasks. In doing this type of learning, the weak students will learn from the strong ones and the strong students will be able to add to their knowledge. The collaborative environment encourages students to share the process of constructing ideas instead of working alone on tasks.

As far as ICT is concerned, students are able to learn to use the computer and internet on their own even if they are from diverse backgrounds.  The implications for classroom teachers are endless, but it can be said that once teachers carefully plan what will be done in the classroom combined with the students experiences, the students will be able to construct their own learning and will enjoy learning at the same time.

1B-3 Activity 4A Spontaneous Learning

Spontaneous Learning is one aspect of student learning that we as teachers need to build upon in the classroom.  Students are continuously learning from their experiences and the activities that they do and the skills that they employ in using the computer are no exception.  Students always seem to have a fascination for computers and this fascination would lead them to explore, investigate, experiment and use the computers for a number of tasks although they have not had formal training in its use. It is important that as teachers we decide what needs to be learnt, how it should be learnt and at what stage of the child's development it should be done. Spontaneous learning and scientific learning should be the two sides of the same coin.