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    This document provides an overview of an experiential learning workshop focused on understanding the experiential learning cycle. The workshop goals are to help participants improve their skills and confidence with the experiential learning cycle and incorporate it into their educational programs. The presenters are responsible for 20% of the learning, leaving 80% to the participants. The document then outlines the experiential learning cycle, including experiencing an activity, sharing observations, processing the experience, generalizing lessons, applying what was learned, and evaluation. It emphasizes that experience only becomes learning through reflection. Resources on experiential learning are also provided. The workshop was prepared by several members of the University of California Cooperative Extension.

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    This document provides an overview of an experiential learning workshop focused on understanding the experiential learning cycle. The workshop goals are to help participants improve their skills and confidence with the experiential learning cycle and incorporate it into their educational programs. The presenters are responsible for 20% of the learning, leaving 80% to the participants. The document then outlines the experiential learning cycle, including experiencing an activity, sharing observations, processing the experience, generalizing lessons, applying what was learned, and evaluation. It emphasizes that experience only becomes learning through reflection. Resources on experiential learning are also provided. The workshop was prepared by several members of the University of California Cooperative Extension.

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    Experiential Learning

    Workshop: Level I
    Understanding the Experiential
    Learning Cycle

    Beginning Training
    Power Point by:
    Martin H. Smith,
    Richard P. Enfield,
    A. Michael Marzolla, &
    Lynn Schmitt-McQuitty
    Experiential Learning
    “We will learn no matter what! Learning is as
    natural as rest or play. With or without books,
    inspiring trainers or classrooms, we will
    manage to learn. Educators can, however
    make a difference in what people learn and
    how well they learn it. If we know why we are
    learning and if the reason fits our needs as
    we perceive them, we will learn quickly and
    deeply.”
    - Malcolm Knowles, Educator
    Workshop Goals:
    1. To help participants improve their skills
    and confidence in understanding the
    Experiential Learning cycle.

    2. To help participants incorporate the


    Experiential Learning cycle into their
    educational programs.
    Presenter Role:
    1. To provide an opportunity for you to share,
    think, and get involved in the learning
    process.

    2. We feel responsible for 20% of the learning


    that will take place in this workshop. That
    leaves 80% of the responsibility in your
    hands!
    What do you know or wonder
    about Experiential Learning?
    What Experiential Learning is
    NOT
    Building the Learning Cycle
    The Experiential Learning Cycle
    Experiencing
    Perform; do it

     Provide a concrete experience that:


     Can be an individual or group experience, but
    involves doing.
     Most likely will be unfamiliar to the learners – a first-
    time activity.
     Pushes the learner beyond previous performance
    levels.
     May be “uncomfortable” to the learner (The “Groan
    Zone”).
     Includes the risk of failure.
    The Experiential Learning Cycle
    Sharing
    Results; reactions; observations
     Get the participants to talk about their
    experience.
     Share reactions and observations.
     Discuss feelings generated by the
    experience.
     Let the group (or individual) talk freely and
    acknowledge the ideas they generate.
    The Experiential Learning Cycle
    Processing
    Discussing; analyzing; and reflecting
    on the experience
     Discuss how the experience was
    carried out.
     Discuss how themes, problems, and
    issues are brought out by the
    experience.
     Discuss how specific problems or
    issues were addressed.
     Discuss personal experiences of
    members.
     Encourage the group to look for
    recurring themes.
    The Experiential Learning Cycle
    Generalizing
    Connecting the experience with real world
    examples

     Find general trends or common truths in the


    experience.
     Identify “real life” principles that surfaced.
     List key terms that capture the learning.
    The Experiential Learning Cycle
    Applying
    Apply what was learned to a similar or
    different situation

     Discuss how new learning can be


    applied to other situations.
     Discuss how issues raised can be
    useful in the future.
     Discuss how more effective
    behaviors can develop from the new
    learnings.
     Help each individual feel a sense of
    ownership for what was learned.
    The Experiential Learning Cycle
    Evaluation
     What was learned from
    the experience?

     What worked?

     What would you


    change?
    Experiential Learning is…
    Experiential education is not just about doing
    an activity. Experience becomes learning when
    it is pondered and reflected upon. This followed
    by determinations which are made about what
    to remember and utilize at a later time and in
    different contexts…Being a true leader is about
    sharing your world view with the youth you
    work with as well as trying to understand their
    world view. Through collaboration of feelings
    during the sharing of experiences, we all
    expand our knowledge.”
    - Richard Ponzio & Sally Stanley
    4-H CYD, UC Davis
    Experiential Learning Resources:

     http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-explrn.htm

     http://reviewing.co.uk/research/experiential.learning.htm

     http://reviewing.co.uk/research/learning.cycles.htm

     http://www.dmu.ac.uk/~jamesa/learning/experien.htm

     http://www.onfed.org/thinkers/et-knowl.htm
    Experiential Learning Workshop: Level I
    Understanding the Experiential Learning Cycle
    Prepared By :
     Members of the University of California Cooperative Extension
    Science, Technology and Environmental Literacy Workgroup:
     Rebecca L. Carver, PhD, UNC Greensboro;

     Steve Dasher, UCCE San Diego County;

     Richard P. Enfield, UCCE San Luis Obispo County;

     A. Michael Marzolla, UCCE Santa Barbara County;

     Richard C. Ponzio, PhD, Department of Human and Community


    Development, UC-Davis;
     Lynn Schmitt-McQuitty, UCCE Santa Cruz and Monterey
    Counties;
     Martin H. Smith, Veterinary Medicine Extension, UC-Davis.

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