While I still firmly believe in Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligences and Bloom’s Taxonomy, with the information I learned in this course now will add some of the theories of other behaviorists to my personal theory of learning.
I knew that cooperative learning is an important learning strategy, but now I realize that it is built on research by Vygotsky and is critical in the high tech world of our students today. They will have to know how to cooperatively work with not just someone else in their own office, but possibly someone from an entirely different country and culture. Combining technology with the most basic form of learning from those directly involved in our lives from birth to death is astounding to me.
I also have known that being actively involved in learning makes for much stronger memory recall and better comprehension. What I didn’t realize before is how much research supports this theory. This theory of Constuctionism has been supported by Piaget, and even the first behaviorist Jon B. Watson, who theorized that in the stimulus-response mode individuals responded to the environment around them (Smith, 1999) in observable changes in behavior.
Immediate changes I plan when the opportunity arises in my teaching situation will be to use a more creative environment. Of particular interest to me is the concept mapping to use for organization of concepts and information. The other learning tool I plan to incorporate is voicethread due to the ease of operation and the limitless variety of ways it can be used. My plan for achieving these goals is to spend time this summer exploring the possibilities through internet research on how others have used these tools in a classroom setting and actually exploring more personally with what can be done with this technology.
Long term goals are to find good homework sites that support reading. This is an area of deficiency for me and one I plan to work on. Again, I will cruise the internet as well as ask classmates and colleagues for good websites they may have come across. Another long term goal will be to get more staff on board with what can be done with technology. Sharing websites and learning tools will support that goal. I will also have to approach the technology people within the school district about making it possible for students to have access to personal email addresses within the district for those that don’t have computers at home.
I look forward reviewing the new websites made available to me in this course. I find lesson planning to be a creative experience. It will fun to see what is actually out there to incorporate into active, multiple intelligence, cooperation based lesson plans.
References:
Smith, M.K. (1999) ‘The behaviourist orientation to learning’, the encyclopedia of
informational education,www.infew.org/biblio/learning-behaviourist.htm, Last
update: September 03, 2009.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Social Learning Theories
Week 5 Blog-
As noted in Cooperative Learning –Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching,and Technology (2003), cooperative learning is an American concept much like the collaborative learning which has British roots. Cooperative learning started with John Dewey’s philosophy of the social nature of learning. Then in 1978 Vygotsky weighed in with his hypotheses that social interaction among students extends their zone of proximal development. Pitler, Hubbell, Kuhn ,and Malenoski have included in their work, Using Technology with Classroom Instructions that Works(2007), this statement made by Johnson, Johnson, and Stanne in 2000, When students work in cooperative groups, they make sense or construct meaning for, new knowledge by interacting with others (p.139).
With the availability of technology in schools today, being able to implement cooperative learning can now extend way beyond a classroom, school, and even community. As a reading teacher I love the idea of being able to do a book study with students from another place. The different perspectives would be fascinating. I can visualize teams creating power points to send to other places and compare lives between the students. Pen pals via the internet, sharing favorite recipes to fix and eat on the same day…the possibilities are endless. As stated in the resource book… Using Technology with Classroom Instructions that Works, the Web has become much more than an electronic reference book; it’s a thriving medium for collaboration in business, education, and our personal lives (Pitler, Hubbell, Kuhn, & Malenoski, 2007, p. 144).
I don’t where I’ll be teaching next year. My fervent hope is to have my own classroom again so that I can use all the ideas being presented in this class. I can’t wait to get started. I especially look forward to an activity between my class and my son’s who is an hour and a half away.
References:
Palmer, G., Peters, R., & Streetman, R. (2003). Cooperative lerning. In M. Orey (Ed.),
Emerging perspectives on learning, teaching, and technology. Retrieved on
May, 12, 2011, from http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epllt/index.php?title=
Cooperative_Learning
Pitler, H., Hubbell, E.R., Kuhn, M., Malenoski, K. (2007). Using technology with
classroom instruction that works. ASCD. Alexandria, VA. (p.139)(p.144).
As noted in Cooperative Learning –Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching,and Technology (2003), cooperative learning is an American concept much like the collaborative learning which has British roots. Cooperative learning started with John Dewey’s philosophy of the social nature of learning. Then in 1978 Vygotsky weighed in with his hypotheses that social interaction among students extends their zone of proximal development. Pitler, Hubbell, Kuhn ,and Malenoski have included in their work, Using Technology with Classroom Instructions that Works(2007), this statement made by Johnson, Johnson, and Stanne in 2000, When students work in cooperative groups, they make sense or construct meaning for, new knowledge by interacting with others (p.139).
With the availability of technology in schools today, being able to implement cooperative learning can now extend way beyond a classroom, school, and even community. As a reading teacher I love the idea of being able to do a book study with students from another place. The different perspectives would be fascinating. I can visualize teams creating power points to send to other places and compare lives between the students. Pen pals via the internet, sharing favorite recipes to fix and eat on the same day…the possibilities are endless. As stated in the resource book… Using Technology with Classroom Instructions that Works, the Web has become much more than an electronic reference book; it’s a thriving medium for collaboration in business, education, and our personal lives (Pitler, Hubbell, Kuhn, & Malenoski, 2007, p. 144).
I don’t where I’ll be teaching next year. My fervent hope is to have my own classroom again so that I can use all the ideas being presented in this class. I can’t wait to get started. I especially look forward to an activity between my class and my son’s who is an hour and a half away.
References:
Palmer, G., Peters, R., & Streetman, R. (2003). Cooperative lerning. In M. Orey (Ed.),
Emerging perspectives on learning, teaching, and technology. Retrieved on
May, 12, 2011, from http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epllt/index.php?title=
Cooperative_Learning
Pitler, H., Hubbell, E.R., Kuhn, M., Malenoski, K. (2007). Using technology with
classroom instruction that works. ASCD. Alexandria, VA. (p.139)(p.144).
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