The engagement theory was created by Greg Kearsley and Ben Shneiderman (1999) to ensure that students are meaningfully engages in learning activities involved with technology based teaching and learning. They suggest that students need to with others and be involved in worthwhile tasks. It is believed that they students need to interact with technology to facilitate engagement in ways that are difficult to achieve otherwise, (Kearsley, 1999).
After reading the engagement theory, I really connected with the outcomes that it was aiming to achieve. It was all about how teachers just assume that because they are using technology, that the students will be engaged. The thing that I was impressed with was the suggestion that learning managers need to ensure that the ICTs are meeting expectations and that the learners are networking and communicating with the world that they live in. The focus is on experimental and self-directed learning.
The idea is that the students are involved in a cognitive process such as reasoning, decision-making, creating, problem-solving and evaluating. The engagement theory aims at ensuring the students are intrinsically motivated to learn because of the learning environment and the activities that are created (Kearsley, 1999). There are three principles involved in the engagement theory; Relate, Create and Donate.
Relate
• Group work
• Communication
• Planning
• Management
• Social Skills
• Clarify and verbalise their problems
• Relate work to the students world
• Multi backgrounds of group members
• Different Perspectives
Create
• Purposeful
• Define project
• Focus on efforts of application
• Ideas in relation to context
• Conducting their own experiments and projects
• Sense of control over their learning
• Problem-Based-Learning
Donate
• Making useful contribution whilst learning
• Outsider that the product is being created for (reason for learning)
• Connects with community
• Increases student motivation
• Donating work to others (purpose)
Please have a look at the engagement theory and let me know what you think.
Until next time,
Amy
References
Kearsley, G., & Shneiderman, B. (1999). Engagement Theory. Viewed on 12/08/09 from:
http://home.sprynet.com/~gkearsley/engage.htm
After reading the engagement theory, I really connected with the outcomes that it was aiming to achieve. It was all about how teachers just assume that because they are using technology, that the students will be engaged. The thing that I was impressed with was the suggestion that learning managers need to ensure that the ICTs are meeting expectations and that the learners are networking and communicating with the world that they live in. The focus is on experimental and self-directed learning.
The idea is that the students are involved in a cognitive process such as reasoning, decision-making, creating, problem-solving and evaluating. The engagement theory aims at ensuring the students are intrinsically motivated to learn because of the learning environment and the activities that are created (Kearsley, 1999). There are three principles involved in the engagement theory; Relate, Create and Donate.
Relate
• Group work
• Communication
• Planning
• Management
• Social Skills
• Clarify and verbalise their problems
• Relate work to the students world
• Multi backgrounds of group members
• Different Perspectives
Create
• Purposeful
• Define project
• Focus on efforts of application
• Ideas in relation to context
• Conducting their own experiments and projects
• Sense of control over their learning
• Problem-Based-Learning
Donate
• Making useful contribution whilst learning
• Outsider that the product is being created for (reason for learning)
• Connects with community
• Increases student motivation
• Donating work to others (purpose)
Please have a look at the engagement theory and let me know what you think.
Until next time,
Amy
References
Kearsley, G., & Shneiderman, B. (1999). Engagement Theory. Viewed on 12/08/09 from:
http://home.sprynet.com/~gkearsley/engage.htm
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