Effective learning structures presentation

(The Taxonomy of Significant Learning. n.d.)
(Using Course Structures, n.d.)

Effective Learning Structures
Dr. Glenn H. Dakin Ed. D. MBA/EB

©Copyright Dr. Glenn H. Dakin Ed. D. MBA/EB

Learning Structures

(Habits of Mind, n.d.)

 Addressing Student Learning Structures
 How Does External Locus of Control Effect Learning Structures?
 Do Teaching Styles Influence Learning Structures?
 Does the Pygmalion Effect Influence Learning Habits?
 Is Training Different from Education?
 The Influence of External Stimulation!

 How Can We Help Students Improve Learning Structure?


External & Internal Locus of Control
External Locus of Control:
Individuals conditioned by external locus of control characteristics relate the events
and situations, success or failures to factors not related to them (Kutanİs, Mescİ &
Övdür, 2011).
Students conditioned with external locus of control characteristics view change as a
danger. They believe they do not have control of the forces affecting their lives. They
often are passive learners. They resist change as they justify decisions on external
events (Kutanİs, Mescİ, & Övdür, 2011).

Internal Locus of Control:
Individuals with internal locus of control characteristics believe that they can monitor
situations with their own fate. They have a strong belief in themselves and abilities
(Kutanİs, Mescİ & Övdür, 2011).
Students conditioned with internal locus of control characteristics believe in control
over their fate. This prevents them from being suspicious of change since they feel
responsible for their own actions (Kutanİs, Mescİ & Övdür, 2011).


External Locus of Control and Learning Structure
 External locus of control conditioning often and unknowingly may control
a student’s learning habits influenced by family or work demands.
 This type of learner justifies learning habit decisions by external events.
 These individuals are often conditioned with a task oriented approach to
checked things off the list which includes learning.
 They may not realize how conditional influence can affect learning.
 They may accomplish tasks from a list approach without really engaging
content to reconstruct understanding. They often approach learning with
using a multitasking tactic.


 Multitasking significantly reduces the capacity to engage the subject
content for knowledge retention affecting learning outcome success.
 Students may assume distance learning convenience provides a method
for learning through effective multitasking.

 Students significantly condition by multitasking are those that may be
most influenced by external locus of control and instant gratification.
 Implications of reactive external locus of control conditioning can have
exacerbating influences on student learning success.

 Students completing work through grade anticipation supported by culture
conditioned consumerism and entitlement are often not engaged with
learning subject content as learning takes a back seat to task completion.


 Subjective course conditioning may result in students establishing
patterns for how the course operates to get the best grade.
 After two or three online courses have been completed, a student may
assume that the involvement and engagement behavior is the same for all
courses.
 Students taking subjective learning courses which require reading a text
and writing an essay become conditioned to approach every course in the
same manner.
 Students conditioned in this manner assume the method will work for all
courses.
 When the student enrolls in a performance based course that requires
critical thinking and learning a process, they are often frustrated unaware
of the need to change the approach.

@Copyright Dr. Glenn H. Dakin Ed. D. MBA/EB

(Which is your Locus of Control?, n.d.)

The Sage on the Stage Style and Learning Structure
 Sage on the Stage:
 The instructor is the central figure, the "sage on the stage”.
 The instructor is the expert with subject knowledge.
 Students may use memorization or attempt to understand information with limited
interaction motivated by the extrinsic grade.
 Students are challenged to demonstrate understanding through exams.
 Students are passive learners rather than active ones.

 How this Influences Learning Structure:
 The instructor may not engage the student’s reality, forcing the student to depend on
the instructor’s knowledge and expectations.
 Students may not demonstrate adequately, resulting in undermined learning.
 Does not motivate student changes to help the student improve learning structures.
 Assumes students are prepared to understand the knowledge regardless of learning
structure.
 May not consider how students will use subject knowledge in the real world.
 Assessments are based on the instructor’s understanding and expectation.


(Conceptual Change, n.d.)

The Guide on the Side and Learning Structure
 Guide on the Side:
 The instructor motivates students delivering content through active participation.
 The instructor employs servant leadership guiding student self expectations.
 Students reconstruct their understanding through engagement with prior knowledge.

 Students demonstrate understanding through performance outcomes.
 Students are active learners rather than passive learners.

 How this Influences Learning structure:
 Engages student reality promoting creative tension and questioning of status quo.
 Through positive suggestion, motivates change to help students revise learning
structures.
 Challenges students to meet their own expectations through guidance of modeling
critical thinking.
 Considers how the student will use the knowledge in his or her world.
 Assessments are focused on the student’s understanding providing formative
feedback to inspire reconstruction of knowledge and process.


Influence of the Pygmalion Effect
 Educational learning integrates constructivist approaches.
 Students are responsible to reconstruct knowledge through his or
her understanding.
 Constructivists acknowledge evidence that thinking creates
individual cognitions because of experience (Schunk, 2004).
 Curriculum design is often focused on the academic subject versus
the student’s reality about the subject.
 An elusive element of the Pygmalion Effect is the positive as well
as negative characteristics of the conditioned external influence.
 The power of expectation influences personal self-beliefs, which
includes the individual beliefs for how they think they learn.


(Pygmalion Effect, n.d.)

Influence of the Pygmalion Effect
 Individual beliefs influence behavioral learning habits which dictate
student learning outcomes.
 Including learning structure suggestions can influence positive
change in a student’s learning outcomes.
 When positive suggestions are communicated from the guide on
the side approach, students are motivated to revise learning habits
from a supportive approach.
 Providing positive learning habit suggestions to students can
present a new approach for an improved learning experience.


(Attitude Feature 4, n.d.)

Training Versus Education
(Blooms Taxonomy, n.d.)

 Training
 “Training refers to contexts in which we can predict with
some confidence the specific situations in which people will
use what they learn” (Posner, 2004, p. 70).
 Examples: certification tests, practicing sample tests to pass
a licensing examination, repetitive memorization, external
task oriented grade expectations, and behavioral
conditioning.

 Education
 “Refers to contexts in which we cannot predict with any
specificity or certainty the situations in which people will use
what they learn” (Posner, 2004, p. 70).
 Examples: Writing , communication, reading, speech,
technical literacy, academic, and business courses.

Training Versus Education
 Posner (2004) posits an excellent question “How much of
schooling and what proportion of each subject should we
conceive of as education, and how much should we conceive
of as training?” (p. 71).
 This question stimulates other thought provoking questions.
 What percentage of meeting learning objectives depends on skill?
 Is demonstrating learning skills required to learn subjects?

 Should an instructor care about student learning structure?
 Is it important to focus on student learning structures?
 Is challenging a student to think critically about learning structure
beneficial in all educational activity?
 Should instructors include structure suggestions in course content?


(Training Versus Education Divide, n.d.)

The Influence of External Stimulation
 Students may not realize how the influence of external
stimulation by family or work can significantly affect learning.
 The transfer from short term memory to long term memory of
knowledge is intangible.
 The information processing theory provides suppositions for
how the brain receives and processes information.

 The theory proposes the presence of working memory for
processing chunks of information.
 Connections to prior knowledge reinforce long-term memory
with organizations of new knowledge designed to prompt for
new inquiry of more knowledge.


(Unconditional and Conditional Response, n.d.)

The Influence of External Stimulation
 According to Willis (2007) “the more regions of the brain that store
data about a subject, the more interconnection there is. This
redundancy means students will have more opportunities” to retain
data for retrieval. “This cross-referencing of data means we have
learned rather than just memorized” (p. 311).
 Constant demand for the adult learner’s attention motivated by
external interruption may disrupt the concentration affecting the
chunking of content through the thinking process.
 This can seriously derail an adult leaner’s intention.
 Students may be unaware of personal learning ramifications
resulting from paying attention to external expected demands in
the moment versus staying focused on the learning involved
process.

(Survival Circuit, n.d.)


(Cognitive Workspace, n.d.)

Learning Family Structure
 A learning family structure is a means of establishing a learning
organization setting expectations for family actions.
 In a learning family, members understand why the learner is
engaged with the long term goal of education.
 The goal is to improve the family quality of life and not just the
student’s goals.

 Establishing a learning family where learners demonstrate
consistent disciplined behavior as a learning practice is one of the
best gifts an adult can provide for their children.

(The Plan, Do, Study, Act cycle, n.d.)

Learning Family Structure Suggestions
1. The student that manages time, is not managed by time.
2. Establish a daily learning period of no more than 3 hours each day.
3. Set aside a minimum of one hour per day for each course.
4. Participate every day in learning versus checking things off the list.
5. Design a private learning area created for engaging with learning in
the home that is secure and not subjected to media interruption - no
cell, radio, or TV.

(The Plan, Do, Study, Act cycle, n.d.)

Learning Family Structure Suggestions
6. Create a reward system for the families support of the student’s
learning structure. Track the support weekly.
7. An excellent method is a 3x5-grease board with each family
member listed to display progress and rewards.
8. Participate on Sunday of each week to review instructions and
setup the assignment using the textbook as a reference. Scan the
text to locate relevant material to do assignments.
9. Begin the work first by setting up an essay template before reading
the material.
10.Students will develop an authentic assessment approach when the
learning structure is followed each day as they complete
assignments early in the week making it possible to review more of
the text and their assignments with new eyes before submitting.


Setting Up A Learning Family Structure
1. Suggest that adult students with families have a serious all family
discussion at the kitchen table.
2. During the family discussion, the student must reach a point where
feeling in their heart, family members are on the same sheet of music
understanding that the adult is attending college to improve the
family's quality of life.
3. If strengthening is necessary, state that the thousands of dollars of
tuition for this educational experience is family money being spent
now for a better future.
4. Once the student feels in their heart that the family is on the same
sheet of music, ask, "Please, I need your help" to the family. How can
we do this together?


Setting Up A Learning Family Structure
5. An important aspect of this is be aware that when an adult student
demonstrates a consistent structured disciplined learning behavior,
the family learning structure will develop within time.

6. Students demonstrating a strong learning structure benefit all family
members.
7. A stellar benefit is the children will emulate the behavior of the
parent developing the same practice.

8. As the student demonstrates consistent discipline, the family learns
to take a structured approach for learning moving from external
locus of control towards internal locus of control.
9. Furthermore, the opportunity for the communication in the family to
approach a responsive behavior versus a reactive behavior over
time is being supported.


Can Educators Help Students Benefit
from Improved Learning Structure?
 Including formative suggestions on learning structure to students to
enable revision of their understanding is invaluable.
 When used effectively, learning structure suggestions motivate
revisions of practical applicable knowledge promoting change and
change is learning.
 Communicating to learners suggestions on how, when, and why
establishing a learning structure is an excellent online instructional
design element.

@Copyright Dr. Glenn H. Dakin Ed. D. MBA/EB

Suggestions for Improving Learning
Structure?
 Clarification of requirements to ensure understanding of
requirements on Sunday through posting questions or emailing
the instructor is an excellent way to begin each week.
 Use instructional requirement statements from assignments in
the order they are presented for headings in written work. This
will order thinking and improve research skills to meet the
requirements.
 Never copy content from the Internet search engine sites to use
as original words.


Suggestions for Improving Learning
Structure?
 Do not wait the end of the week to begin an assignment. Start with
a template with headings from the instructions early in the week
and research each heading moving through the week.
 Set up created essay templates that can be used each week. By
setting up writing templates early, students engage the mind with
content versus just getting something done.
 Remember that when engaged with subject content effectively
grades are always managed to earn the best result.


(Cognitive Areas Most Responsible for Academic Success, n.d.)

References
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