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GENERATIVE LEARNING

Generative learning activities must provide the students with an opportunity to mentally "play with" information to create a personal understanding of the subject to be learned.

Definition / Attributes: Generative Learning

Learners actively participate in the learning process and generate knowledge by forming mental connections between concepts.
Two types of generative activities:
Activities that generate organizational relationships (titles, headings, questions, objectives, summaries, graphs, tables, and main ideas)
Activities that generate integrated relationships between what the learner sees, hears, or reads and memory (demonstrations, metaphors, analogies, examples, pictures, applications, interpretations, paraphrases, inferences)

How can the World Wide Web support . . . Generative Learning?

Provide students with World Wide Web-based simulations that they can manipulate to learn concepts.
Provide students with database sites they can use to interpret, make inferences, or predictions.
Provide students with sites that function as triggers for discussion about concepts.

Lesson Component Reflection Questions (Use these questions to note ideas on how to use Generative Learning for a component of your lesson.)

Learning outcomes: (What will the students be expected to learn as a result of this lesson?)

Lesson description: (How, using Generative Learning, will the lesson facilitate the learning outcomes?)

Web resources: (What types of web resources will support the presentation strategy and learning outcomes?)

GENERATIVE LEARNING Web sites that describe, provide examples of, and demonstrate how to use the WWW with Expository Presentation.

Why does Generative Learning enhance learning? Students that "interact" with subject matter build deeper knowledge
How can I replicate Generative Learning lessons using existing Web resources? Existing Lesson Plan and activity on creating gliders and generating & sharing data Existing Lesson Plan and resources for students to start a weather tracking service	These are existing Lesson Plans available on the WWW: http://nasaui.ited.uidaho.edu/nasaspark/datashar.htm http://l2l.ed.psu.edu/success/lessons/Lesson3/ISCa3_L.HTM
How can I generate my own Generative Learning lessons using Web resources? Teacher creates lesson on how and why volcanoes erupt. A component of this lesson is to have students chart the changes that occur to a volcano during an eruption. From this chart students analyze the relationship between geologic factors and the eruption. To enhance this lesson with Web resources: Review the Pinatubo eruption sequence and chart occurrences of change (based on time, type of activity, lava flow, etc.) Investigate other volcanoes around the world and note factors on the chart Analyze the chart, looking for relationship between location of the volcano, size of eruption, etc. and draw conclusion on the geographic variables.	These are examples of informational Web sites that could be used to tell students about volcanoes: http://www.expo.edu.ph/pinatubo/page4.html http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/
What are other ideas of using Web resources for Generative Learning? Using a web-based simulation: Designing an airplane, analyzing the impact of changing airplane design specifications Students presented with searchable database of NASA images – can be used to test predictions about aircraft characteristics for different types of flight, high altitude, speed, etc. or to create their own databases of aircraft that exemplify different flight principles Web sites that trigger discussions on concepts about life in Antarctica, environmental impacts, living conditions, time zones, etc.	This is an existing Web site that exemplifies Generative learning: http://fornax.arc.nasa.gov:9999/badweb/badweb.html http://nix.nasa.gov/ http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica2/ask/new/

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