Learning by teaching
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Short description
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Learning by teaching is an activity-oriented teaching method, where
pupils or students learn by teaching the material to each other. It
can be used for any subject, school type, or age. Although the term is
sometimes used to refer to situations where pupils from higher grades
teach younger pupils, the term "Learning by Teaching" established
itself in the educational profession as mutual teaching within a
classroom. In Germany, learning through teaching in its modern form is
linked to Jean-Pol Martin, who developed its overall pedagogical
concept and disseminated it through his network of contacts.[1]
Process description
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Learners or learning groups are assigned a topic. They have fixed time
to collect and process the materials in order to prepare passing the
acquired knowledge to other learners.
Required resources
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Any possibility can be used. If the knowledge is gathered and
organised on a computer, learners must have editing privileges when
using, for example, a wiki or an LMS. They also need to posses
sufficient technical competence not to be distracted by operational
issues but focus on the main learning objective.
Examples
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The demo course shows learning units which have been created by
trainees (partly as a group) and subsequently completed by all
participants of a course under the guidance of the "teachers".[2]
Please click on "Demo" when the page opens, then continue to
"Apprentices: Seminars".
Comments
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In the LMS "sudile," the co-authors function exists to support this
method. The author of a course can create any number of "empty" units
and assign students authoring rights. Once the course is loaded into
the system, those units become available to all course
participants. See the detailed article about the learning platform
sudile.[3]
Sources
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| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_by_teaching
| [2] `Azubis: Seminare `_
| [3] `Co-Autoren-Funktion (in German) `_
*PSI:* https://psi.methopedia.eu/learning-activity/learning-by-teaching