How do we learn?
How do we transfer to new contexts?
How do we forget?
What drives us to learn?
What do these questions mean for how we teach?
What role does technology play in this?
How do we transfer to new contexts?
How do we forget?
What drives us to learn?
What do these questions mean for how we teach?
What role does technology play in this?
Three primary theories in Ed Psych
- Behaviorism
- Cognitivism
- Situativism (socioculturalism)
Shulman: Four Corners
Amnesia
Fantasia
Inertia
Nostalgia
I think the idea of amnesia could be applied time and time again to my own experiences. I think it is something that is inevitable and not necessarily something negative. Think about your high-school chemistry course. How many of those facts did you actually retain. Could you tell me right now how to convert grams into moles? I firmly believe that school is where we go to learn, not to learn facts, but to learn how to learn. We learn how to process ideas, how to apply new information to our own surroundings, how to take a solution, and create our very own problems out of it. When I taught Chemistry, actually seeing the information for the first time since my own experience in high school, I experienced many "Oh, yeah! I remember that!" moments. Of course there was so much I had no recollection of ever having learned myself, but the fact is there was so much that I had already learned, but it didn't sink in, or I didn't know how to process it at the time.
(Here is the other reading from day one- Worth)
Amnesia
Fantasia
Inertia
Nostalgia
I think the idea of amnesia could be applied time and time again to my own experiences. I think it is something that is inevitable and not necessarily something negative. Think about your high-school chemistry course. How many of those facts did you actually retain. Could you tell me right now how to convert grams into moles? I firmly believe that school is where we go to learn, not to learn facts, but to learn how to learn. We learn how to process ideas, how to apply new information to our own surroundings, how to take a solution, and create our very own problems out of it. When I taught Chemistry, actually seeing the information for the first time since my own experience in high school, I experienced many "Oh, yeah! I remember that!" moments. Of course there was so much I had no recollection of ever having learned myself, but the fact is there was so much that I had already learned, but it didn't sink in, or I didn't know how to process it at the time.
(Here is the other reading from day one- Worth)
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