6.1. WHAT ARE LEARNING ACTIVITIES?
Learning activities, or just activities for short, are coordinated actions that exercise basic intellectual skills, thought processes, and analysis techniques. But mere action is not a learning activity. People learn little by merely clicking the mouse or chatting about vacation plans. People learn by considering, researching, analyzing, evaluating, organizing, synthesizing, discussing, testing, deciding, and applying ideas. Activities may use mouse clicks and chat sessions, but their goal is to provoke the exact mental activities that lead to learning.
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