Preparation for Meaningful Learning :

Integrating Technology for Meaningful Learning

Textbook details: Integrating Technology for Meaningful Learning, Second Edition Grabe, Mark (Professor and Head, Department of Psychology, University of North Dakota and Grabe, Cindy (Technology Facilitator, Grand Forks Schools, North Dakota) 1998, Houghton Mifflin Company, 222 Berkley Street, Boston, MA 02116 USA (ISBN 0 395 87136 0) Pages, 451; parts, 3; chapters, 11; glossary; references; c...

Concept maps and meaningful learning in medical education

Retrieval-Based Learning: A Perspective for Enhancing Meaningful Learning

Learning is often identified with the acquisition, encoding, or construction of new knowledge, while retrieval is often considered only a means of assessing knowledge, not a process that contributes to learning. Here, we make the case that retrieval is the key process for understanding and for promoting learning. We provide an overview of recent research showing that active retrieval enhances l...

Rote Versus Meaningful Learning 1

Richard E. Mayer is a professor of psychology and education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. L EARNING INVOLVES THE ACQUISITION of knowledge. This is a commonsense view of learning that has implications for how to teach—such as presenting information to learners in books and lectures—and how to assess—such as testing to see how much of the presented material students can remember...

Preparation for Meaningful Work and Life: Urban High School Youth’s Reflections on Work-Based Learning 1 Year Post-Graduation

The challenges confronted by low-income high school students throughout school and across the transition to higher education and employment are well-documented in the US and many other nations. Adopting a positive youth development perspective (Lerner et al., 2005), this study reports findings from interviews with 18 low-income, racially and ethnically diverse graduates of an urban Catholic hig...