Learning theories brief out line

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OMG I have just discovered a new tool. It is Awesome you can find it in something called Zemanta. It’s a tool you can use in your blog to highlight certain words that will then take you to Wikipedia site. Yes I know this site is to be taken with a grain of salt but I think it is really cool.

Below you will find below a quick outline of

·         Learning theories,

Questions	Behaviourism	Cognitivist	Constructivism	Connectivism
How does learning occur?	Observable behaviour main focus	Structured, information	Social, meaning created by each learner (personal)	Distributed within a network, social, technologically enhanced, recognizing and interpreting patterns
What factors influence learning?	Nature of reward, punishment, stimuli	Existing schema, previous experiences	Engagement, participation, social, cultural	Diversity of network
What is the role of memory?	Memory is hardwiring of repeated experiences - where reward and punishment are most influential	Encoding, storage, retrieval	Prior knowledge remixed to current context	Adaptive patterns, representative of current state, existing in networks
How does transfer occur?	Stimulus, response	Duplicating knowledge constructs of "knower"	Socialization	Connecting to (adding nodes)
What types of learning are best explained by this theory?	Task-based learning	Reasoning, clear objectives, problem solving	Social, vague ("ill defined")	Complex learning, rapid changing core, diverse knowledge sources

Source: Ireland, T. (2007)



This site will take you on a learning journey through the different learning theories and technology.

https://sites.google.com/a/boisestate.edu/edtechtheories/Home/emerging-theories-of-learning-and-the-role-of-technology

My participation through the wiki task (on mobile phones in the classroom), in week 2 along with further research on the net of learning theories and technology has brought about my idea that mobile phone in the classroom as a learning tool is linked with Cognitivist, Constructivism and Connectivism theories. I am a believer that behaviourism is something you learn through modelling. That someone can watch a process and repeat that process.

Below are some links to helpful web sites on how to utilize mobile phones as a learning tool in the classroom.
http://www.teachhub.com/how-use-cell-phones-learning-tools

http://12most.com/2011/12/28/12-ways-kids-learn-cell-phones/


Lookout for my next blog on De Bono's thinking hats and the week 2 wiki task