Student+Directed+Learning+(What+it+means+for+students?)


 * ==//**For Students**//==

What is Self-Directed Learning (SDL)?
|| personally challenging activities and developing personal knowledge and skills to pursue the challenges successfully (Gibbons, 2002). For students engaged in self-directed learning, there will be: # Ownership of Learning || 
 * Self-directed learning (SDL) involves initiating
 * 1) Management and Monitoring of Own Learning
 * 2) Extension of Own Learning
 * ==What are some indicators of SDL?== ||
 * Students who are self-directed learners might display some of the following behaviours:


 * //Construct 1: Ownership of Learning//**1. Student sets learning targets for himself/herself.


 * //Construct 2: Management and Monitoring of Own Learning//**2. Student knows which parts of the lessons he/she does not understand.3. Student asks questions when he/she is not sure about the lessons.4. Student looks for more information to help him/her understand the lessons better.5. Student makes a list of what he/she needs to do for his/her learning.6. Student completes his/her schoolwork on time.7. Student tries to understand where he/she went wrong in his/her schoolwork.8. Student tries different ways to solve problems on his/her own.


 * //Construct 3: Extension of Own Learning//**9. Student uses what he/she learns in class after his/her lessons.10. Student finds out more than what his/her teachers teach him/her in school.11. Student uses the computer to
 * go online to ask people outside his/her school for ideas on his/her lessons;
 * become better at a skill that he/she is interested in e.g. learn a language; and/or
 * get ideas from different websites and people to learn more about a topic. ||