1. Learner-centered Classrooms
Chapter 2
Learner-centered Classrooms

2. What Is a Learning Environment?
How would you define a “learning environment”?
“spaces where a person or group of people interact with tools, materials, and resources in their development of knowledge and skills.” (Jonassen, 2000)
How might/does an environment affect student learning?
The context in which learning is established and supported
It affects they manner with which a learning unit is designed
Must consider limitations and potential value of available tools
How have learning environments changed?
Historically, classrooms = instructivist approach
Recent movements towards learner-centered

3. Learner-centered Psychological Principles
Construction of knowledge
Metacognition (“Thinking about thinking”)
Role of prior knowledge
Motivational and emotional influences on learning
Other influences on learning (developmental, social, individual, etc)
Nature of the teaching & learning process
Engaging, Interactive, Facilitative, Instructionally Appropriate, and authentic
Role of immersive and non-immersive technology

4. Resources Hand-held Computers in Education Handhelds in the Classroom
Handhelds in the Classroom
Learner-Centered Psychological Principles
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