"My" IDT - Learning Theories - 2017

Create a Comparing Learning Theories section or page in your portfolio (if you have not already completed this in your template) . This page will eventually contain a visual that you create to describe and compare all the learning theories. Since we have only learned about behaviorism this week, you will start an overview of the learning theory, connections to teaching and learning, and describe a learning scenario that presents the learning theory in practice. Community, collaboration and peer feedback supports acquisition of knowledge.  It's important to be actively engaged in discussions and provide your thoughts and ideas to peer in a professional manner.  Therefore, you will be asked to return to Week 1 activity, Prepare your Portfolio and review two or three classmates pages.  Feel free to provide feedback or discussion to your peers. Table pros / cons / similarities / differences Behaviorism Constructivism Cognitivism Andragogy see https://d...

First, provide a brief description of a learning scenario in which behaviorism is the primary learning theory that drives the activity.  This could be something you have experienced firsthand, or an example you create. Remember, behaviorism is focused on an observable behavior. learning new vocabulary  ability to learn basic vocabulary in chunks practicing a basic, fundamental physical skill  hitting a baseball skating cross overs  List the stimulus and the response in the learning scenario.  Describe the types of positive and negative reinforcement in your example. You may want to list the behavior you would observe in order to know if someone learned.  examples matching pictures with words matching sound with text   positive reinforcement?  immediate checkmark  negative reinforcement? attempted match is denied .. and words return to original location List what you believe to be at least one pro and o...

A request of the Learning Theories course.. I expect to expand on this to make it a more comprehensive portfolio To include teaching philosophy  edtech philosophy  examples of work done  presentations  workshops  learning communities  multi media  tipsheets- handouts digital lesson plan  communication / collaboration tools  tool reviews

Key items to cover discuss characteristics of behaviorism, identify and describe Pavlov’s and Skinner’s works, and develop examples of Behaviorism in learning environments. What exactly is behaviourism?  Significance of Pavlov  Noteable for his work with dogs, stimulus response (classical conditioning) learning to associate a seemingly unrelated event with another (ringing of a bell with the arrival of food to eat) so that one event signaled a response / anticipation of the other - "Associated learning" . Significance of Skinner  focus only on what is observable we're no different than the dogs ... responding to stimuli if we have a pleasant experience we learn to seek it out again.... if we have an unpleasant experience, we learn to avoid it. role of teacher .. to promote positive / desireable responses to a stimuli and praise to reinforce it typical activities / evidence of this?  repetition, drilling, memorization, question-and-response, and ext...