Attachment:
Cone of Learning Activity
FCS FLASH ISSUE Number
97: February 03, 2009
February 6: Cajon: CCCECE Winter
Institute:
Technology in Our Teaching
February 20: Rocklin: CCCECE
Winter Institute:
Technology in Our Teaching
February 21: San Diego:
ID Student Career Camp :
Hosted by CLCID and NKBAD
March 6: Downey:
Student Design Event :
"Persuasive Presentations and
Communications for the Design
Professional"
March 6: Sacramento:
CDE/ECE Faculty Initiative
Project
March 13-14: San Francisco:
Interior Design Student Career
Forum at the San Francisco
Design Center
March 15-19: Las Vegas: Joint
Conference
National Council on
Aging/American Society on Aging
March 20: Pasadena:
CDE/ECE Faculty Initiative
Project
March 26-28: Sacramento:
CAEYC Conference California
Association for the Education of
Young Children
April 3: Novato:
CDE/ECE Faculty Initiative
Project
April 17: Downey:
Save the Date! 2009 Culinary
Arts and Hospitality Competition
April 22-24: Lake Arrowhead:
2009 Workforce Leaders Institute
April 24: San Diego:
CDE/ECE Faculty Initiative
Project
September 25-26: Sacramento: CSA
Western Region, 2009 Symposium “
Costume in the American West”
Call For Papers
What's Up with FCS?
Cynthia Schlesinger with
the VA's Greater LA Healthcare,
writes about how we focus on
comfort, function, and style
as we age. Read what Dana Wu
Wassmer, Cosumnes River College,
has to say about the ultimate
step in
weight loss: bariatric or
gastric bypass surgery. Alan
Guttman's
contribution
is timely as he
focuses on how the State of
California's fiscal crisis is
affecting the Child Development
Division. Fashion and Interior
Design faculty and students need
to register ASAP
for the March 6
Student Design Event
- it
was planned based on faculty
requests for this topic.
Finally, Mira Costa College is
accepting applications for
Director/Instructor
for
their Child Development Center.
FCS FLASH: Cone of Learning
According
to neuroscience, "
Teach and you retain more …
listen and you lose more ...
it's that simple."
When students sit in class and
listen to a lecture, they use
only 3% of their brains and feel
disengaged. If you stir up the
environment so that students can
teach the person next to them
something they just learned,
they will use 90% of their brain
and be totally engaged. The “
Cone of Learning ”
illustration shows that the more
involved the learner is in the
learning process, the more
he/she learns and remembers.
Because today's students will be
expected to learn and relearn on
their jobs, teaching them “how
to learn” becomes more important
than “what to learn”. Today's
activity focuses on helping
students identify the ways they
learn best, and what they can do
to learn better and faster.
Do
This:
-
Question
students about how
they like to learn ...
if your boss tells you to
learn a new software program
what is the first thing you
do?
-
Explain
that there are
specific strategies we can
use to learn better and
faster. (You may choose to
show this video.)
-
Distribute
the “Cone of
Learning” exercise,
attached, and give students
a few minutes to complete
it.
- Have students
share
their responses. Read
the sentence starters and
ask different students to
complete them.
-
Ask
students why they think you
wanted them to explain their
interpretations of the
Chinese Proverb, the last
activity.
FYI: We're
preparing students for jobs that
don't yet exist, using
technologies that haven't yet
been invented.
Richard Riley, Former Secretary
of Education
This newsletter was brought to
you by a grant from the
California Community College
Chancellor's Office Family and
Consumer Science Collaborative
Grant (#08-0160).
Please contact Joann Driggers (
jdriggers@mtsac.edu ) with
any questions.
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