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Participatory learning

Participatory education is an educational method based on creating an effective environment that allows the student to cooperate with all students and participates with them in building educational content. This type of learning also gives students the opportunity To discuss, argue, express opinion and negotiate, simultaneously or asynchronously. Participatory learning is encouraged It also encourages students to search, discover and experiment, in addition to being interested in the learner's mind and the processes that It takes place within an interactive social framework.

It is a modern strategy developed by Frank Lehman under the name (Think - Pair - Discuss) that came to push the learner to think individually, think with a classmate and then share with everyone. The lecture method allows only a very small number of participants to participate, which led him to find a strategy that is used with large numbers of learners and can be applied easily without the need for difficult circumstances or means and techniques. Rather, it is done in light of the teacher directing a specific question and then asking everyone to think In it individually and completely calmly, in a time not exceeding (5 minutes) according to the teacher’s estimate of the importance of the question, then he directs them to form pairs according to the order of their sitting, and they start discussing and pairing the ideas that each of them has, then the teacher randomly determines the learner who answers the question. And when he finds that the learners have thought and then participated, he returns to the lecture and explanation, and so the teaching takes place according to it.

In order for the teacher to design the participatory learning activities, he must first identify the actual needs of the learners and follow them up by adopting the pre and post evaluation using modern and appropriate electronic learning tools.