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Active Learning through Geocaching!
Hello Friends! Today we discuss geocaching and the role it can play in active learning. Learning is often viewed as students listening as they sit neatly in rows as a teacher lectures. Active learning is different. It involves students engaged in action and thinking about what they are doing (Berek, 2022). Students engaged in active learning rely less on the teacher's knowledge and work in groups or on their own to develop skills and a higher order of thinking through synthesis, analysis, and evaluation. They also explore their own attitudes and values. Some teachers misunderstand the idea of active learning to mean that in this student-centered approach students must engage in activities on their own without instructor intervention (Ito & Takeuchi, 2022). A study of teachers in Japan suggested the learning experience is more effective for students when instructors blend lectures with active learning activities to engage learners. For more information about active learni...
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