A.+Professional+wiki

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This is the Stoke School, Techie Brekkie wiki.

 This wiki is designed with Professional & Technical Learning Sessions in mind.  Plese feel free to use it to help add ideas to your teaching.

 This is a professional wiki, and while I (Andrew) have started it, it would be appreciated if you could add to (edit) the wiki as a collaboration. I'd be interested to see how it will look 2 years from now.  (11-11-09).

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= Andragogy =

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(Redirected from [|Androgogy]) ** Andragogy consists of learning strategies focused on adults. It is often interpreted as the process of engaging adult learners with the structure of learning experience. Originally used by [|Alexander Kapp] (a German educator) in 1833, andragogy was developed into a theory of [|adult education] ** ** by the [|American] educator [|Malcolm Knowles]. Knowles asserted that andragogy (Greek: "man-leading") should be distinguished from the more commonly used **// [|pedagogy] (Greek: "child-leading"). Knowles' theory can be stated with six assumptions related to [|motivation] of adult learning: [|[1] [|[] // <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">The term has been used by some to allow discussion of contrast between self-directed and 'taught' education.[|[3] media type="custom" key="6436035" =**media type="custom" key="6325035".**= <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;"> Got free time :-) ??? Click the link below and have a read.
 * 1) Adults need to know the reason for learning something (Need to Know)
 * 2) [|Experience] (including [|error]) provides the basis for learning activities (Foundation).
 * 3) Adults need to be responsible for their decisions on education; involvement in the [|planning] and [|evaluation] of their instruction (Self-concept).
 * 4) Adults are most interested in learning subjects having immediate [|relevance] to their work and/or personal lives (Readiness).
 * 5) Adult learning is [|problem]-centered rather than content-oriented (Orientation).
 * 6) Adults respond better to internal versus external motivators (Motivation).

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