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How Can I Promote Deep Learning through Critical Reflection?


Presenters: Barbara Jacoby, PhD, Senior Consultant, University of Maryland


About this Course

This course is worth 1 hours (0.1 CEUs) of professional development. A certificate of completion can be printed once the program has been completed.

 

From time to time, we look out across a classroom or lecture hall and wonder, “Is any of this sinking in?”
 
You all know that mere passive absorption of information is a poor way of learning.
 
Students should be receiving information, reflecting on it, questioning it, testing it, applying it … really understanding it. Learning deeply, in other words.
 
Which pedagogical practices will promote that sort of learning?
 

 

One is critical reflection, and you can hear about it in this insight-filled Magna 20-Minute Mentor, How Can I Promote Deep Learning through Critical Reflection?