Week 4 Preparation

Top 10 Learning Theories for Digital and Colloaborative Learning

• Conditioning
• Pavlov and Skinner
• Feedback
• Behaviour and reinforcement focussed
• Connectionism and the Law of Effect
• Stimulus and response
• Incremental learning
• Reinforcement
• Thorndike
• Progressive Education
• Dewey
• Self Coverning
• Co-operation
• Experiential learning
• Constructivism: Social Development Theory
• Vygotsky
• Social Learning
• Zone of proximal development
• More knowledgable other
• Teacher is facilitator not content provider
• Constructiveism: Equilibration
• Piaget
• Intelligentce
• Drive towards balance with environment
• 4 stages of development - sensory, preoperational, concrete, formal
• Educational environment should provide opportunity for discovery
• Socical Cognitive Theory
• Bandura
• Observation and modelling can give same learning exerpience as direct experience
• Teachers act as models
• Media can affect behaviour in a negative way
• Situated Learning/Cognition
• Seely Brown
• Learning is embedded in activity, context and culture in which it is learned
• Learning is about performace not just accumulation of knowledge
• Community of Practice
• Lave and Wenger
• 3 components - domain, community and practice
• Learning is unintentional
• About social relationship; co-operation
• Constructionism
• Papert
• Learning by doing.
• Abstract thinking
• Connectivism
• Siemens
• Learning theory for digital age
• New opportunities to learn and share information
• Can take place across many dimensions
• How does learning effect technology not just technology effect learning