Learning 9/27/07

Show many different types of projectors so that they can become adaptable to new and unexpected changes to the projectors. Same for other subjects - related to my math teaching - have to show them many different iterations of an equation, of solving a problem, so that they can adapt when they see one they did not see before.

What is the differences and similarities between Schema Theory and Meaningful Learning?

Similarities :

1. Activate prior knowledge
   
2. Make instructional materials meaningful with organizers and elaboration


3. Use thought-demanding activities to promote mental models


4. Provide new contextx and apply to prior knowledge.

Meaningful Learning - semantics are very important - how is that knowledge being encoded - put a lot of importance on learners prior knowledge.

Schema Thoery - refers to prior knowledge less concretely - as schema. Link new knowledge to a schema as opposed to linking it to prior knowledge.

Main contribution of Ausubel and Meaningful Learning - #1 contribution to the field of leanring theory was advanced organizers.

Elaboration Theory : progressively more detail is to be elaborated in each level of instruction until the desired level of detail is reached. Common in Math instruction.

10 minute break


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We're back, but we're correcting a test, so I'll turn the Musak back on...

da da da duh da dun dun dun, da da da dada dun da dun dun .........

THE MIDTERM -

give some web sites which are examples of learning scenerios. the test will ask you to analyze the scenerio from the behavioral point of view, or analyze this scenerio from the cognitive processing theory

1. Behaviorism
2. Cognitive Information Processing
3. Meaningful Learning
4. Schema

Those are the 4 learning theories we have studied so far.

Then he showed us an example of one of the sites.

We get to pick one of the two scenerios and then analyze it with two theories of our choice. I love choices.

[ Svim Vere, Eeevening Vere ]

Next week we're up in 202.