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.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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.
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I like that you discuss that learning should be placed in the context of developing and learning skills for the future. Applying context to learning makes students want to learn more because they know their knowledge will have practical applications at some point and time in their life.
ReplyDeleteIt is true that every child is at a different stage in learning. And it seems that the older the child, the greater the span in learning stages. I teach in the high school. I truly believe I have some students that are in what Piaget would call the pre-operational stage, while others are well into formal operations. Now if I was teaching kindergarten, I would expect almost all the students to be in the early stages. But I get all the stages, all in one class which is always over 40 in number. I really have no idea how I can address this situation. So I bore the advanced students and leave the undeveloped ones behind. I know the school stopped dividing students into competency levels, but it seems a pity...
ReplyDeleteI like the way you put Bruner's theory in a real life context. If you can the subject matter interesting and the student can draw on prior knowledge, they will be more interested and remember longer because it will not be considered too difficult.
ReplyDeleteso how does Bruner's ideas of discovery learning, spiral curriculum, and modes of representation fit in with the way you teach? Do you see value in using different modes of representation with your students for example?
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