LESSON 6: IT ENTERS A NEW LEARNING ENVIRONMENT


It is most helpful to see useful models of learning that is ideal to achieving instructional goals through preferred application of Educational Technology. These conceptual  models consists of: Meaningful Learning, Discovery Learning, Discovery Learning, Generative Learning and Constructivism.

I. Meaningful Learning

      Meaningful learning refers to the concept that the learned knowledge (lets say a fact) is fully understood by the individual and that the individual knows how that specific fact relates to other stored facts (stored in your brain that is). 

II. Discovery Learning

     Discovery Learning is differentiated from reception (meeting point of meaningful and discovery learning) in which ideas are presented to students in a well-organized way, such as through detailed set of instructions to complete an experiment. Ever recalled why you are so nervous, yet very excited in doing experiments? It is because of the idea that you are about to discover something first hand.

III. Generative Learning

     Generative Learning Here, we have active listeners who attend to learning events and generate meaning from this experience and draw inferences thereby creating a personal model of explanation to the new experience in the context of existing knowledge. This is viewed as different from the simple process of storing information. Motivation and responsibility are crucial to this domain of learning.

IV. Constructivism

    In this conceptual model of learning, the learner builds a personal understanding through appropriate learning activities and a good learning environment. The most accepted constructivism principles are:  Learning consists in what a person can actively assemble for himself and not what he can just ask from someone else. Role of learning is to help the individual live to his personal world.

Through these new conceptual models of learning, we now know that there are better ways to learn other than rote learning or memorization and that learning is use for use not only in school but in real life.


DISCUSSION

1.  Do the new learning theories mean we should stop memorization and drill activities in class? Why?
  • No, the new learning theories want to emphasize that we should use rote learning or memorization seldom and if possible don't use this as strategy for effective learning because rote learning doesn't promote higher level of thinking. 
2.  There are official truths/principles in such disciplines as Ethics, Chemistry, Physics, History, etc. Do you think Constructivism really want to abandon universal truths/principles? (clue: some beliefs result from faculty information, ancient/unscientific traditions. Primitive people believed the world was flat).

3. Can personal discoveries contradict social/culturally accepted principles or values? (clue: Revolutions)

  • Maybe personal discoveries contradict social accepted principles as long as there are evidences that your personal discoveries is real/ true than the social/ culturally principles. 




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