AUTONOMOUS LEARNING CLASSES MARCH 21ST AND 23RD

Autonomous Learning Classes March 21st and 23rd

Learning Styles

When we want to learn something, all us use some strategies that help us to have a better comprehension. For example, if you prefer to learn something through diagrams, charts, pictures and another thing when you are looking the information, you are “Visual. But if you prefer to learn through activities that have the opportunity to move about, you are "Kinesthetic". Furthermore, if you like to learn something by listening like lectures or when someone says what he understood about the information, you are auditory. Of course we can all have some characteristics about the other learning styles, but we always have one that predominates.

Learner autonomy

Autonomy is the ability of a person, in this case of a student, to set their own standards and who has the ability to control or oversee her own learning. This kind of people usually have the characteristic of willing to take risks, because they feel, think, and make decisions for themselves. A Learner autonomy knows himself and have insights into their learning styles and strategies which are very helpful to him, because can understand better the information.

Learning strategies are the special thoughts or behaviors that individuals use to help them comprehend, learn, or retain new information; also they are mental steps or operations that learners use to learn a new language and to regulate their efforts to do so. The learning strategy is an individual's way of organizing and using a particular set of skills in order to learn content or accomplish other tasks more effectively and efficiently at school or somewhere else.

Some strategies are Cognitive and Metacognitive:

•             Metacognitive strategies are the skills used for planning, monitoring, and evaluating the learning activity, but cognitive strategies operate directly on incoming information.

•             Cognitive strategies don’t required a lot of time, for example, to take notes of the class you do it at the moment but you don’t process de information making a summary, the summary or interpretation of what was said in class is a metacognitive strategy.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is a term known thanks to the American Dale Dougherty of the editorial O'Reilly since 2004. It is also a term that refers to the evolution of the Internet, Web 1.0 was made up of those websites which were only for query use, because you could only consult online the contents prepared by a team of experts, in few words, You could not interact as we currently do. The web 2.0 is the one that conforms all the websites or applications of social use in which the users can share new contents and also comment them besides to look for them.

According to the website ‘Definicion.de’:

La Web 2.0, por lo tanto, está formada por las plataformas para la publicación de contenidos, como Blogger, las redes sociales, como Facebook, los servicios conocidos como wikis (Wikipedia) y los portales de alojamiento de fotos, audio o vídeos (Flickr, YouTube). La esencia de estas herramientas es la posibilidad de interactuar con el resto de los usuarios o aportar contenido que enriquezca la experiencia de navegación.

Web 2.0 is formed by:

-All platforms, for publication of contents, like Blogger.

-All the social networks like Facebook.

-Services known as wikis like Wikipedia.

-Hosting portals for photos, audio or videos like Flickr, Instagram, YouTube and others.

REFERENCIAS

http://www.apapachogallery.com/web-2-0-educacion-democracia-y-relaciones-personales/

http://thisinterestedme.blogspot.com.co/2013/04/what-is-learner-autonomy.html

http://definicion.de/web-2-0/