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Learning Activities 1  What are your learning activities? Learning activities are tasks or exercises or games designed to engage students, build knowledge, and promote understanding of a subject. 2  What are other learning act...

Learning Activities 1  What are your learning activities? Learning activities are tasks or exercises or games designed to engage students, build knowledge, and promote understanding of a subject. 2  What are other learning activities? The other learning activities include direct instruction, guided practice, independent study, collaborative work, and reflective review. 3  What are learning activity types? Different types of learning activities can be group discussions, hands-on experiments, case studies, or even writing tasks for learners. 4  Mastering the art of integrating learning activities in lesson plans is a game- changer. It's about understanding diverse learners and designing experiences that speak to them. 5 Clear objectives, using active learning strategies and designing meaningful activities are important. They're the golden threads weaving successful lessons together. 6  What are learning activities and what is their importance in the educational process? Learning activities are exercises that are carried out during a teaching process with the aim of stimulating understanding and helping students to absorb new concepts. These types of activities are intended to motivate students to actively participate in a learning program. Although their nature may vary between exercises, debates, projects or online activities, what connects them is that they are all strategically designed to meet the objectives of the wider learning program. 7  Learning activities are important within any educational process for a number of different reasons: - They encourage active participation Such activities actively involve students in the process of acquiring knowledge. This participation allows them to explore and independently apply concepts, rather than just passively listening to a teacher. They promote knowledge retention Well-designed activities help students to retain information more easily. Practice and application are two factors that have a lot to do with this process, since they activate and reinforce long-term memory. 8  They can be adapted to different learning styles Learning activities can be customized to meet the needs of different learning styles. Some students learn best through writing, others through social interaction, and others through hands-on experimentation. The diversity of learning activities available to educators allows each style to be accommodated effectively. 9  Types of learning activities Diana Laurillard's Conversational Framework (2012) identified six types of learning activities. Source: Optimising blended and online learning Type 1 Acquisition Learning through acquisition is when teachers engage students with theories, concepts, and ideas. For example: reading books, journal articles, or websites attending face-to-face presentations, or lectures/tutorials watching videos, demonstrations, animations, or listening to podcasts or lecture recordings. 10  Type 2 Inquiry Students are supported and guided by teachers to explore and compare theories, concepts, and ideas to develop their own conceptual understanding. For example: research concepts, theories, or events explore and analyze data compare different ideas to critique practice formulate solutions to problems fieldwork, work-integrated learning, and placements 11  Type 3 Practice Students use their emerging conceptual understanding to put theory into practice, and utilize feedback to amend their actions and understanding. For example: test solutions to problems simulations role-play games fieldwork, work-integrated learning, and placements 12  Type 4 Production Students produce an output to represent their conceptual understanding. The intention of production is to consolidate learning through the process of producing an output. For example: E Portfolios digital posters video and audio presentations written texts infographics and concept maps blogs, journals, and wikis 13  Type 5 Discussion Students engage with their peers and teacher to articulate and share their ideas and questions. Through discussion, students are able to enhance their conceptual understanding and generate more questions and ideas. For example: think-pair-share jigsaw in-class or online synchronous discussions online asynchronous discussions polling 14  Type 6 Collaboration Students work with their peers to address a problem or to complete an output. Collaboration often involves discussion and production. For example: think-pair-share jigsaw group activities project-based work team problem solving collaborative problem solving peer feedback 15  Examples of Fun activities that help develop language learning in children https://www.britishcouncil.my/english/courses-chi ldren/resources/fun-activities-that-develop-langu age-learning Children can benefit from playtime. Games offer a fun- filled, relaxed environment where they can practice using new words and are free to express themselves. Participating in recreational activities is an effective way to develop language and communication skills. It also helps your children to be more socially confident and may be a way to forge friendships. 16  Below are some examples of games and playtime activities that integrate language learning with fun: Word games. Expand your children’s vocabulary with word games. It can be as simple as pointing out items at home or during a road trip e.g. “I am now mixing the butter‫ الزبدة‬into the batter‫ ”الخليط‬or “Tall buildings are also called skyscrapers”. You might even give the definition or share background information about these words. Games like Scrabble, Pictionary or a round of Charades also encourage vocabulary development and communication skills. 17  Jokes. Telling age-appropriate puns will also help foster good humour and creativity in children. This also encourages wordplay and imagination. You can read through kid-friendly joke books and take turns telling witty stories. Avoid being too critical of their gags, speech, or articulation. Instead, model proper pronunciation or grammar by repeating the statement back to them in the correct way e.g. when your child says “I goed so fast!” instead of saying, “That’s not how you say it”, you can opt to say, “Yes, you went so fast!” 18  Riddles. Riddles ‫ الغاز‬are fun ways to use words and paint pictures of scenes or situations. Read or say riddles aloud to each other and explain to your children the different definitions of a single word e.g. school as in a place of learning or school as in a group of fish to help them understand the riddle better(about fish school riddle see this link… https:// learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/fun-games/jok es/fish-school. 19  Rhymes. The repetitive chanting, reading, writing, or hearing of rhymes promotes good listening skills and memory retention, aside from developing speech. You can also narrate what you do at home with rhyming words or let your children tell you about their favourite toys using rhyming words. 20  Homonyms. Promote listening and comprehension skills by playing with words that sound the same but have different meanings. Allow your children to think of words that sound alike and let them try to define each one. This is also a good gauge of how much your children’s vocabulary has expanded and if their understanding of the words is correct. Examples of homonyms plain-plane. meat-meet. berth-birth. brake-break. male-mail. right-write. steal-steel. pray-prey. 21  Storytelling. While storybooks provide ample entertainment, sharing stories – whether real or make-believe – can provide a good bonding time with your children while helping develop their communication skills. Exchange stories about daily events. Broaden their imagination with fantastical stories and let their creativity grow as you make up stories about anything and everything around them. 22  Songs. Aside from harnessing their musical abilities, songs also help children learn new words. Lyrics have a sense of rhyme and rhythm so it will be easy and entertaining for them to sing along. In addition, simply putting a tune to an activity can be a fun game that you can play with your children. 23  Tongue twisters. Tongue twisters are an excellent and fun way to teach children correct pronunciation‫ نطق‬and enunciation‫ نطق‬of words. It is a fun way to train their tongue to pronounce words. Start with simple ones and work your way up. 24  Words can be a lot of fun if we know how to maximize their use. Together, they can be made up into stories, songs, and a whole lot of other things that will help your children be more eloquent‫بليغ‬. Continue to encourage your children to speak well by constructing a healthy and fun learning environment where they can unleash‫ يحرر‬/ ‫ يطلق العنان‬their creativity and broaden their linguistic skills. Guide them on how to express their thoughts, feelings and actions better through the use of words as this will prepare them to face the world with confidence as they grow. 25 - Misconception check‫فحص المفاهيم الخاطئة‬ Discover students’ misconceptions. See if students can identify what is the correct answer when given a false fact. It’s useful when going over a previous lesson. It encourages students to think deeply. 26  Circle the questions Make a worksheet or a survey that has a list of questions (make them specific) about your topic, and ask students to circle (or check) the ones they don’t know the answers to. Then, let them turn in the paper. Create corners concerning different questions that were circled. Let your students work on the extra exercises and explanation in the corners, individually. As your students will all have circled different questions, you have to give each student a different and personalized order to visit the corners. 27. Ask the winner Ask students to silently solve a problem on the board. After revealing the answer, instruct those who got it right to raise their hands (and keep them raised). Then, all other students have to talk to someone with a raised hand to better understand the question and how to solve it next time. 28