social

What is learning? i remember one day my bike was not working properly, with out the help[ of a bike shop my friends and i sat down and starting to play with the brakes and gears. we learned that they were set up the same with a simple wire. as you tighten the wire this is when something happens at the end. we found that if we tighten the wire to the gears they will change faster but if you tighten it too tight then you can't get the last gear. if i did not have my friends there i could have figured it out but it was faster with them there.

what can we do as instructors? we can let the students work together to find out how to do stuff. we also need to be there to clear up any misconceptions or false findings. as the students understand how this is done they will gain ownership of the concepts and remember them longer but more important is that they will be able to understand how they work.

Bruner

What is learning? Learning is do with different styles at different times in s person's life. Just imagine if when teaching a child to run you got them are 6 months. The first thing you need to do is teach the child to roll over and you will need some kind of extrinsic motivation. put a toy out to reach for. then you will need to teach them to crawl. this is started with extrinsic motivation but can be changed to intrinsic motivation because of need. The comes the walking around objects of help with balance and soon the child is moving without any support. if you were to teach a child how to run that could not crawl even though he was 5 the child would struggle for a long time because he would not be able to see the point of moving or have the muscle to move.

As a teacher we can look at the big picture of the learning. We need to see how what we are teaching today will effect how they will learn years from now.

week of november 9

What is learning? I have to disagree a little with the theory this week. I think that we can learn a lot from on the job training, but before we go in it is better that we have a little back ground. If we go into a basketball game without any idea of the plays we can eventually learn them and how they work but it will take about 5 games. if we sit down and talk about the play and then go through it as a walk through and then against our own team we are learning lots and lastly we need to experience to know how they will work against a team that doesn't know our plays. I agree that learning takes place on the lob quicker than it can in a classroom but i think that we need to spend some time in the classroom before optimal learning can take place.

As a teacher we need to incorporate this into our lessons. we need to take the time to help them understand the concept and then see it in a real world situation.

Case-based learning

What is learning? with case based learning this seems so basic and what learning is. We learn from real world things and can learn for things that have happened in the past. We need to find some emotional or logical connection to the material. now that being said i think it is really hard to do this with every lesson I think would be overwhelming. I think that we can do this with a unit and give a case study for one or some of the concepts but we need to teach some parts of a unit with the understanding that it is the foundation of the information related to the cast study.

As an instructor we can create an emotional attachment for the students to show that there is a reason for the knowledge.