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Generating Teen Interest in Bible Study, Part Four: Building Learner Confidence of Success
Posted on Monday, January 22, 2007 at 9:44 AM by Jason Barker
Concluding our series on generating teen interest in Bible study. Click here to read the previous post.
Finally, adolescents can be motivated to study the Bible when they believe they will be successful in comprehending the text and transferring the knowledge to their daily lives. Edward Hootstein notes that learners have an increased expectation of success in learning when then choose the subject to be learned: Carl Rogers similarly states, “The only learning which significantly affects behavior is that learning which is self-appropriated, self-discovered." Cognitive flexibility theory further maintains that learners benefit not only from choosing the subject to be studied, but also from choosing a learning path through the subject that best suits their learning style.
Multimedia educational applications are particularly effective at building learner confidence of success. As stated above, multimedia applications enable the learner to construct his or her learning path according to needs and learning style. Furthermore, because adolescents are generally familiar with computer applications, they can feel greater confidence in their ability to find and retain information from within the multimedia environment; in fact, adolescents tend to prefer incorporating computers into their religious education and activities.
I will briefly discuss the effectiveness of multimedia educational applications in building learner confidence in my next post.
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