Learning activities are extra studies about teaching topics to enhance learning
process. They have been represented as exercise, homework, activity, performance
task, workplace, Project through years. Their applications change based on
education approaches. Behaviorist approach focus on exercises. The aim of
exercises is to provide enhancement of study topics. Exercise were supported to the
students to reinforce study topics and the students were expected to do them
regularly in the past. Recently, activities have been focused on by giving by this
application. The aims of activity are to provide effective and willingly student
learning. In education process, students can develop language, conscious and social
skills by making various activities cooperatively. Applied activities are main
teaching tools of constructivist approach with the aim of providing student learning
effectively, easily and permanently and motivation. While exercises aim to change
behaviors, activities face to conscious and develop skills such as language,
conscious, social and physical. Activities help students learn knowledge actively and
construct them in their minds. Moreover, they direct the students to examine the
knowledge, find the meanings of events and phenomena, organize and construct
their own thoughts; that is, learning by trying and inventing. Briefly, learning by
activities is learning by doing and inventing. Based on this view, various activities
have been supported to the students in lesson books by twelve years and they have
been applied in teaching. It was observed that the activities in lesson books were not
at the expected level and quality at the end of the study. It was determined that while
some activities were prepared based on the view of exercises or used instead of
them, some of them had the properties of the activities completely.
Bölüm | Makaleler |
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Yayımlanma Tarihi | 20 Aralık 2017 |
Gönderilme Tarihi | 20 Mayıs 2017 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2017 Cilt: 9 Sayı: 2 |