Baggio talks about providing useful visuals that the learner can use to help them better understand the material being taught. That adult learning is different from kid learning because adults ask why questions. Adults want to know the end product and what benefit they can gain from learning the information. Kids just do what the teachers ask and most of the time don’t ask why questions or what they can gain from learning the information. Kids just assume that’s how it has to be and do what they are told even if they can’t relate or comprehend the material. Baggio suggests that teachers should be the facilitators and must teach with their student’s perspective in mind. Teachers must find useful visual that students can access to help them better understand the material. Dervin also talks about teaching with the seekers perspective in mind. As the teacher we are the user or the help we give our students the seekers the tools to overcome the gap, or the unknown information. We have to teach our students to ask why questions to ask what benefit they will gain from learning this new information. So I guess what I learned from both authors was to keep my student’s perspective in mind and help my students understand the information and understand why they need to understand it. I have to make sure I don’t just teach to the test, but rather the big picture of why do my students need to learn the information and what can I do to facilitate their learning.
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