Traditional approach to learning
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- Mastery of content
- Less emphasis on the development of skills and the nurturing of inquiring attitudes
- Current system of education as the teacher focused on giving out information or the "dispenser" and students learning the content and being the "receivers"
- Much of the assessment of the learner is focused on the importance of "one right answer."
- more concerned with preparation for the next grade level and in-school success than with helping a student learn to learn throughout life.
- It can be seen as a narrow-minded approach to learning
- Tends to be closed systems where information is filtered through layers to students
- Use of resources is limited to what is available in the classroom
- Use of technology focuses on the background knowledge of the skill instead of the application of the skill
- Lesson plans used to organize various steps in the learning process for the whole-class approach
- Anything that 'deviates from the plan' would be addressed later
- The instructor is a 'talking head'
- More teacher than student centered
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