siliconindia | | May 20209across subject-matter lines and focus-ing on unifying concepts. Integration encourages students to engage in rel-evant, meaningful activities that can be connected to real life. There are numerous advantages of adopting an integrated approach to teaching:1. Broadens the thinking hori-zons of students: By learning con-cepts in an integrated format, students can learn to view and think about ideas from myriad aspects. Holistic teaching empowers students to think out of the box and combine various aspects together to understand the ap-plications of what is being taught.2. Facilitates comprehensive learning among students: Through an integrated curriculum, students can grasp the concept faster and re-tain it better. It is because, in an inte-grated approach, they get to connect the content with the real world. 3. Encourages active participa-tion in real-life experiences: Stu-dents not only connect and establish connections in real-life contexts, but they are also more actively engaged. This is an essential element of inte-grated learning, as it helps students to understand the world through a re-fined lens. Additionally, teachers are charged with having to create chal-lenging yet interesting tasks based on the curriculum to help students assimilate the concept faster. Through integrated learning, the teacher gains confidence and under-stands the capability of the students. In turn, students gain knowledge, dispositions and required skills. In-tegrated learning focuses on the following approaches:Student-centred Learning: Student-centric learning ensures that students are engaged and interested. It provides them with many oppor-tunities to think critically, construct knowledge and extend what they have learned, thus enriching their learning experience. This method of teaching-learning inculcates among students a sense of personal responsi-bility and motivation to succeed. Active Learning: In modern classrooms, students participate in active learning by working in groups for projects and activities that help them discover new skills. This sim-plifies complex concepts by adding visual elements & context and help-ing students understand `what', `how' and `why' of a concept. Personalized Learning: The modern approach of personalized learning gives students the freedom to learn at their own pace. Artifi-cial Intelligence-powered adaptive learning motivates teachers to focus on personalized teaching for more outcome-based learning. Collaborative Learning: Learn-ing in groups broadens the scope of learning, develops critical thinking, and redefines the traditional student-teacher relationship. Collaborative learning activities include collabora-tive writing, group projects, problem-solving, debates and more. Critical Thinking: Critical thinking involves the evaluation of sources such as data, facts, observa-ble phenomena and research findings. Through integrated learning, students can become good thinkers, draw reasonable conclusions, and make informed decisions. Enriching the Education Sys-tem: The teacher weaves knowledge of the subject and the interest of chil-dren into the fabric of the classroom teaching. Integrated learning solu-tions offer online teacher resources, test generators, class performance analysis, and automated reports for parents, all accessible through mo-bile apps. It not only delivers instruc-tional content in the desired man-ner, but also measures and monitors the delivery of content and student performance. Such platforms make use of various kinds of tools such as cloud computing, data analytics and artificial intelligence for effective delivery of content according to the learning objectives. The integrated curriculum ap-proach makes students more aware of content-area connections, dissolves the boundaries between disciplines, and fosters stronger student-teacher relationships. It encourages teachers to work together on developing in-novative and interactive curriculum, thereby increasing collegiality. Inte-grated learning enables all stakehold-ers ­ students, teachers, parents, and the school staff ­ to attain their goals. To put it simply, we learn at a deeper level when we make connections in the real world. Student-centric learning provides them with many opportunities to think critically, construct knowledge and extend what they have learned, thus enriching their learning experience
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