Socrates As A LifeLong Learner In A Digital Age

Socrates As A LifeLong Learner In A Digital Age:

“The more I learn, the more I learn how little I know.” Socrates

Lifelong learners seek to examine the claims and theories within their disciplines’ body of knowledge before accepting them as worthy of belief.

Socrates/Quotes

• An unexamined life is not worth living.

• True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

• I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing.

• When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

• Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

• Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

• By all means marry: if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

• To find yourself, think for yourself.

• I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

• There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

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  Socrates determined that while learning new information, we are challenging our current understanding. He discovered that by applying this method of probing questioning to theories of people in power, they could not rationally justify their claim to knowledge just because they held positions of authority. By questioning and examining life, Socrates established that persons could hold high position yet still be deeply confused, have self-contradictory beliefs and inadequate evidence to their rhetoric (National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking, 2019). I view this philosophy as the beginning of empirical research.

New research and new information should not only inform our experiences but challenge our accepted frameworks for understanding, interpreting, translating and analyzing to form our own knowledge. Application of knowledge for the examined life is of utmost importance in the learning and teaching journey. As lifelong learner practitioners and scholars, it is our profound duty to apply this philosophy and probing questioning within the classrooms we study and within the classrooms where we teach.
 As an online educator and practitioner-scholar, I strive to help each student realize his or her potential as a worthy, effective, and positive member of society. While I am teaching, I am also working to stimulate the spirit of inquiry, the acquisition of knowledge and skill, and the thoughtful formulation of worthy goals. I exert every effort in this process in order to provide an online classroom climate with the freedom to learn, high yet attainable standards, and the guarantee of the opportunity for equal education for all.
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Mexican Food Vocabulary

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English Core Quadrant animation (5 minutes)

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Native speakers know the culture? - BBELT 2017

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Private lessons with Halina

I understand what YOU need to succeed with English. I know the essential skills you need to develop to become an effective communicator in English.

I would love to teach you one-to-one!

I am available for private lessons on Skype or in my virtual classroom. My online classroom is equipped with a microphone, camera, whiteboard, media player, file sharing, and a variety of other tools.

I have 25 years of experience teaching private English lessons to adults and adolescents from beginning level to advanced.

My students have included business executives, professors, medicine doctors, engineers, university students, primary and secondary school students, and adults learning English for daily life.

I know I can help you make significant, fast ae well as adequate progress in English.

For your program, you can choose any of the topics listed below or suggest additional topics. I will design the lessons to suit your specific needs.

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Introduction - Marek Kiczkowiak - IATEFL 2016 panel discussion

As a non- native I am interested in this discussion.

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Halina's Coversational English Online Course

Welcome to Halina’s Conversational English online course

A bit about me.

I have been teaching languages for over 40 years.

I taught Polish as a foreign language in traditional settings at the Wroclaw University of Technology for about 41 years. I have been teaching English to speakers of other languages for over 25 years.

In 2000, I became an American Citizen.

In 2010, I started my online adventure mainly on WizIQ. Since that time I have been using technology in my classes.

I have been training in both face-to-face and blended learning arrangements. 

Language Learning Theories

Learning Theories

There are 12 learning theories:

•    Constructivism

•    Behaviorism

•    Piaget's Developmental Theory

•    Neuroscience

•    Brain-Based Learning

•    Learning Styles

•    Multiple Intelligences

•    Right Brain/Left Brain

•    Thinking

•    Communities of Practice

•    Control Theory

•    Observational Learning

•    Vygotsky and Social Cognition

http://www.funderstanding.com/about_learning.cfm.

In the mid-1950s, humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow created a theory of basic, psychological and self-fulfillment needs that motivate individuals to move consciously or subconsciously through levels or tiers based on our inner and outer satisfaction of those met or unmet needs. I find this theory eternally relevant for students and adults, especially in today's education.

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/addressing-our-needs-maslow-hierarchy-lori-desautels

Learning means bringing changes, by learning human enters new society and culture. When they learned new understanding, they perform on it. Otherwise, they lose it.

As stated earlier, learning transfers changes (behaviorism) and creates new knowledge or increases information (cognitive skills).  Education empowers our brain and beliefs, so it encourages our intellectual power to improve knowledge.

Most important theories related to language learning.

1.       Behaviorist,

2.       Cognitive,

3.       Constructivism,

4.       Chomsky’s Universal Grammar

5.       Schumann’s Acculturation / Orientation in a new culture,

6.       Krashen’s Monitor

7.       Conversation

The conversation theory is a transdisciplinary learning theory. Developed by Gordon Pask in 1975, it is influenced by a range of cybernetics, linguistics, computer science concepts, cognitive psychology, and neurophysiology.

What learning theories do you follow and why?

How do you incorporate them into your teaching? Try to be as specific as you can. 

I use the mix of different theoriesIt depends on the kind of my students.

In my view, theoretical concepts do not yield concrete prescriptions for classroom application, but the good theory can be used flexibly and creatively by teachers in their planning and educational practice. At the same time, not all learning takes place in the classroom as much of it occurs at home, on the sports field, in museums and so forth (non-formal education), and sometimes implicitly and effortlessly (informal learning).

Non-formal education and informal learning are vital for improving language learning.

How People Learn and What are their Learning Styles?

This is my video about the topic

https://youtu.be/ANObYwBfmu0?list=PLSY4veVfjc63CFZvyfcU96ZodmJp3h5xV

Nowadays the dominant theory is socio-constructivism which can be defined as an approach according to which individual knowledge relies on its social construction of it. (Piaget, Doise and Mugny, 1984). Particularly relevant in this respect are the communication processes (learning dialogs) occurring in situations where at least two persons try to solve a problem. The social world of a learner includes the people that directly affect that person, including teachers, friends, students, administrators, and participants in all forms of activities. Accordingly, learning designs should enhance local collaboration and dialogue but also engage other actors (e.g. domain experts) to participate in certain ways. Research on collaborative learning is particularly interested in learning mechanisms that are triggered by specific collaborative activities.

Key functionalities of a socio-constructivist learning environment are:

• Reflection & Exchange
• Scaffolding & Storyboarding
• Facilitation & Content
• Monitoring & Assessment
• Production, Investigation, etc.
• Psychological support & Community.

         http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Socio-constructivism

Theoretical concepts do not produce actual prescriptions for classroom application, but the good theory can be used flexibly and creatively by teachers in their planning and educational practice. At the same time, not all learning takes place in the classroom as much of it occurs at home, on the sports field, in museums and so forth (non-formal education), and sometimes implicitly and effortlessly (informal learning).

In the mid-1950s, humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow created a theory of basic, psychological and self-fulfillment needs that motivate individuals to move consciously or subconsciously through levels or tiers based on our inner and outer satisfaction of those met or unmet needs. I find this theory increasingly relevant for students and adults, especially in today's education.

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/addressing-our-needs-maslow-hierarchy-lori-desautels

Additionally, I would like to highlight Constructivism as one of the hot topics in educational philosophy right now. It potentially has profound inferences for how current `traditional' instruction is structured, since it goes with several highly exposed educational trends, for example:

• the transition of the teacher's role from "sage on the stage" (fount/transmitter of knowledge) to "guide on the side" (facilitator, coach);
• teaching "higher order" skills such as problem-solving, reasoning, and reflection (for example, see also creative learning);
• enabling learners to learn how to learn;
• increasing flexibility in the evaluation of learning outcomes;
• cooperative and collaborative learning skills.

For me, language learning through conversation and open communication is the most effective teaching technique.

I want my students to become active learners. As the brain works on a use-it-or-lose-it style, means students must apply whatever they learn.

It is necessary to use the new phrase or character in a real situation. Also learning the words and phrases through original videos helps to learn faster.

Moreover, I encourage my students to make language learning a passion.

I combine the fun of language learning with the commitment to follow through. They should remember that feeling the need to learn a new wording is not enough to take an action. Give yourself clarity on what exactly compels you to learn a new language.

My tips are;

• Figure out the how to comprehend a desire to learn.
• What’s the goal behind it?
• What’s the bigger picture?
• How will learn a new language open opportunities in future?
• Just answering these questions will motivate learners to get to the much higher level to take action when necessary.