My first concept that I found interesting in chapter three is Instructional Methods to Engage Students. There are four instructional teaching method to engage students the first on is One-on-one tutoring which is a method involving the teacher teach a single student to maximize the learning. The second method is learning groups which involves students working out problems together in groups that help produce a higher quality outcome of explanations and performances. The third method is Inquiry Learning and that involves engaging students to work on projects that are specifically on one subject and activates work by investigating relevant questions in that certain field. Finally the last method is Metacognitive thinking and that involves showing students how to examine their own individual learning method through self-explanation and self-evaluation.
Next I found the concept of Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Constructivism and Constructionism to be very interesting and very informational. Once again this concept follows four learning theories. First theory is Behaviorism and that has to do with maintaining a learned set of changes in the human behavior and how to respond to certain events in our environment. Second learning theory is Cognitivism and that involves influencing learning by nonobservable and internal constructs. Third theory is Constructivism and that has to deal with every persons interprets and constructs in the world. Forth theory is called the Constructionism and it was a term that a computer made up to emphases that learners build their own knowledge.
Finally the last concept that really stood out to me in chapter three was Groupwork and Collaboration. This Concept is very basic but very informational it goes on to give you the definition of groupwork which is working among classmates in a certain assignment or task, the definition for cooperative learning is students playing different roles such as one person taking down notes, one person researching and or the other person presenting.
Now for my conclusion I fell that all three of these concepts Instructional Methods to Engage, Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Constructivism and Constructionism and finally Groupwork and Collaboration all have a big part in chapter and stood out to me because you need to know how to engage you students/audience no matter what setting you are in. Secondly it is very important to what teachers/ professionals follow in combination to learning. Finally everyone should know what Groupwork and collaboration is because we have all worked in a group no matter what age you are and without it we would never hear the thoughts that other people need to share.
Resources:
Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
E,D.(2010, June 17). Behaviorism,Cognitivism, Constructivism& Learning and Instructional Theory. Retrieved January 26,2015, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YOqgXjynd0
Urich, C.(2015, January 26). Collaboration. Created with ToonDoos http://www.toondoo.com/cartoon/8413137
Fun ToonDoo! It captures the essence of your concept and hopefully, you were engaged in creating it. :) Collaboration is definitely an important skill to learn as we become so much more global in our work and lives. There are some really cool communication tools to help with collaboration, too (more about those in a future chapter and your own experience).
ReplyDeleteDo try to stick with the reflective writing, rather than just recounting the facts from the chapter. For example, write about how you have seen inquiry learning in action and how it worked/didn't work, or whether Behaviorism would work better in your classroom or Constructivism and why - in other words, dig deeper!