1) Active reviewing as a group norm
Active reviewing techniques should not be regarded as the sole property of the trainer.
Once a group is familiar with the use of active language and active conventions, then the mixing of discussion and action can become the norm - providing everyone with wider opportunities for enlivening, extending and enriching their reviews.
2) Holistic experiences need holistic reviews
If the experiences being reviewed are holistic rather than purely cerebral, then it makes sense to offer reviewing media and methods that are suitable vehicles for these multifaceted holistic experiences. If the reviewing vehicles offered are merely discussion-based, then the less discussible aspects of experience will remain untapped, unreviewed and unharnessed. Important sources of power, energy and insight will remain neglected and underused.
3) It's difficult to find words to express ...
People interviewed after disasters struggle to find words that adequately express their feelings. Experience-based training should of course not expose people to such trauma, but the principle is the same: new and intensive experiences, however traumatic or pleasurable they might be, challenge us to find adequate ways of expressing ourselves. Experience-based learning (especially when it is also adventure-based) creates experiences that can be very rich, extensive, intensive, confusing or complex. If the quality of the experience is to have maximum impact for learning, then it must be matched by reviewing methods that are capable of dealing with the depth, essence and richness of the original experience.
4) The reviewer's toolkit
Active and creative reviewing techniques should be seen as basic tools in
a reviewer's toolkit, but they will never replace the need for the skilful and
imaginative use of verbal techniques, and for facilitating group discussions.
Active reviewing techniques have many purposes. At all stages of the reviewing cycle
there are active techniques that can assist the reviewing process
i.e. for establishing facts, for expressing feelings, for examining findings
and for exploring futures.
ACTIVE LEARNING ON OTHER WEBSITES
50 Science Webquests is an excellent resource not only for science teachers, but also for links to sites about active learning strategies. For example:
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