engaged learning

let me first start off by sharing my own definition of engaged learning. to me, engaged learning is about engaging the learners (students) in meaningful ways to learn new things. as the learners are engaged in the lessons, they are encouraged to construct and produce meaningful knowledge. for example, to engage us and to help us to learn to incorporate ict into our lessons and curriculum, we were involved in using various forms of ict for presentations in the class. this provided many of us with opportunities to learn new forms of ict tools. we, as learners in this course, were involved in the whole learning. i should say, we were all engaged in the learning!

engaged learning is also student centered. students are at the very core of the learning process. they are the reasons why lessons are planned in a certain way. engaged learning is also interactive as the learners are actively involved in the learning process. besides that, teachers played the role of facilitators to guide students to discover new things for themselves. students play the role of explorers and in our case, we explored various forms of ict tools in this course and shared the new found knowledge with each other through peer learning.

i guess this is one of the classes that i enjoyed myself. engaged learning elevates the entire learning environment of the learners and helped us to look forward to every lesson. for now, i'm back to rushing my projects and assignments. till then, take care! :D