Thursday, 26 February 2009

Examples of learning theory in practice

Associative;
Children learning modes of behaviour such as tanturms, shouting, anger, crying, signs of affection to get attention. If they get attention in teh first instance they associate that behaviour with being effective and repeat it.
Learning oven is hot through action of touching oven door experiencing pain. Associating pain with that activity prevents repetition of activity.
Associative also incorporates repetition of an activity to develpo a skill - developing muscle memory and neural pathways.
guided instruction - socratic dialogue
Theorists - Gagne / Pavlov


Constructive (individual)
Learning to drive - responding to feedback from instructor and practice, the environment etc
Expanding their view of the world
Self assessment
practical kinaesthetic learning
Student led research - empowering students to expand on what they know without giving them the answer
Individual reflection and problem solving
Theorists - Piaget, Kolb


Constuctive (social) - working collaboratively. bringing individual standards up through being in zone of proximal development and being actively engaged.
Following up in class discussion individual research. Group brainstorm
Online discussion boards
Any computer supported learning that is collaborative.
Theorists - Vygotsky, Laurillard, Pask

Situative
Learning from a more experience person in the appropriate environment e.g Mentoring PGCE students. Observation is key.
Theorists - Lave & Wenger, Cole, Enstrom & Wertsch

2 comments:

  1. Elizabeth,

    Great - you are finding a way to use the blog. Now try to make some entries reflective. Think about the structure we used in the first session; What was most useful thing you learnttoda? What are you unclear about? How can you use what you learned in your teachig.

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  2. Thanks for reminding about the theories that we covered last week. I have now got a clearer picture of linking theory to LP ;)

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