Each of my networks has changed the way that I learned to some degree. My educational networking sites have helped me to place technology in its special place when it comes to learning. My focus is no longer exclusively on the technology equipment but more on how to use the technology to assist in the learning experience. The people in my educational network have added an abundance of information to my overall network. There was so much that I did not know about, and basically, I took networking software such as Blogs, emails, YouTube, and Face book to be exclusively for socializing. Now, I understand how these sites can be used to aid in collaboration and transference of educational information.
My Learning Community members have enlightened me immensely about the procedures and various kinds of equipment and software that I wasn’t aware of but that they have been exposed to in their part of America. Talking with them and bouncing ideas around has changed the way that I learned because I generally look for things that I can do alone and not have to bother someone else to help me with. The connection that I have made with them and having these members around to brainstorm with has changed the way that I learn and has helped me to understand that I can learn more if I collaborate with a group rather than by myself.
A computer with Internet access is the digital tool that best facilitates learning for me. When something is confusing to me, I research it on the Internet in ask.com or google.com. These two sites take me to several links that I can use to assist with my understanding and build learning.
When I have questions or confusions about a new learning, it helps me if I create graphic organizers or mind maps. By constructing graphic organizers or mind maps, I am forced to put related information into an understandable format that aids in clarification.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Using Technology To Facilitate Collaborative Constructivist Principles
I feel that humans intrinsically will and can work together. Based on what I saw in Rheingold’s video, I think about the rule of supply and demand. Because of this, there is always going to be those who need something from someone else, and there will always be that group who has that supply of something ready to deliver in return for something else. The only way to get this cycle going and keep it going is by collaborating.
We may not like each other and we may not get along, but at certain times and in certain instances, we need each other. Right now, there exist the most unlikely human beings that you could ever imagine being and working together for the sake of education. Their politically, personal, and religious views could not be more different. Yet they have come together in a collaborative effort to find out what works and what needs to change in schools so as to move education forward. They are Newt Gingrich, Rev. Al Sharpton, and Arne Duncan, Public Education Secretary. To see the odd collaboration click the links below (it was posted as a 3-part series but I saw it in its entirety).
We can use technology to facilitate collaboration among learners based on constructivist principles by using the Internet. Use of Google.docs for students to collaboratively create a report is one example. We can use pod cast to give instructions to students to perform a learning task together and have it be a rule that this pod cast is the only help that they will be given. Then they will rely upon the members of the group to complete the assignment together. We could use SKYPE to visit and view students in other countries, and as the students are doing so, they could work together to construct biomes if the students are in one of the settings with sand, forests, or oceans. With the SKYPE, the students on each end of the camera will be able to construct models of the biomes.
A great example of real-life collaboration from which we all may benefit:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORWWXARcqX8
Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXwqYnBqJBI
Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yANobP-60yo
Reference
Howard Rheingold: Way-New Collaboration http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/howare_rheingold_on_collaboration.html
posted by Carrie "Penny" Penagraph
We may not like each other and we may not get along, but at certain times and in certain instances, we need each other. Right now, there exist the most unlikely human beings that you could ever imagine being and working together for the sake of education. Their politically, personal, and religious views could not be more different. Yet they have come together in a collaborative effort to find out what works and what needs to change in schools so as to move education forward. They are Newt Gingrich, Rev. Al Sharpton, and Arne Duncan, Public Education Secretary. To see the odd collaboration click the links below (it was posted as a 3-part series but I saw it in its entirety).
We can use technology to facilitate collaboration among learners based on constructivist principles by using the Internet. Use of Google.docs for students to collaboratively create a report is one example. We can use pod cast to give instructions to students to perform a learning task together and have it be a rule that this pod cast is the only help that they will be given. Then they will rely upon the members of the group to complete the assignment together. We could use SKYPE to visit and view students in other countries, and as the students are doing so, they could work together to construct biomes if the students are in one of the settings with sand, forests, or oceans. With the SKYPE, the students on each end of the camera will be able to construct models of the biomes.
A great example of real-life collaboration from which we all may benefit:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORWWXARcqX8
Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXwqYnBqJBI
Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yANobP-60yo
Reference
Howard Rheingold: Way-New Collaboration http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/howare_rheingold_on_collaboration.html
posted by Carrie "Penny" Penagraph
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Learning Theory Cognitivism (copies from other Blog
December 26, 2009
Learning Theory Cognitivism
By pennyfree
Response to http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2007/01/isms-as-filter-not-blinker.html
In the blog, I think that the statement "it seems to me that _ism is offering something usful without any of them being complete or stand alone in their own right" really puts a cap on it from an educational standpoint. As in all educational curriculums, no one objective should stand alone and no one subject should stand alone. We need the integration of across-the-board curricula just like we need the integration of all of the _isms.
Response to http://karlkapp.blogspot.com/2007/01/out-and-about-discussion-on-educational.html
Once again the blog information points to the fact that we should not cater to just one of the _isms, neither should we disregard either _ism, but we need to take the best of each and use them for the educational purposes of our learners.~~~Penny
• Posted on: Sat, Dec 26 2009 6:39 PM
December 15, 2009
By pennyfree
References for Module 1 Blog Post:
Driscoll, M.P. (2005). Psychology of learning for instruction (3rd ed.). Boston: Pearson Education, Inc.
Januszewski, A., & Molenda, M. (2008). Educational technology: A definition with commentary. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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• Posted on: Tue, Dec 15 2009 9:30 PM
By pennyfree
My beliefs about how people learn best:
I believe people learn best when a combination of input are available to aid with the learning. First, the learning happens as a process over time of seeing something happen or experiencing something happening and learning from the process or experience. Example: We tell little children not to touch the stove or iron because it is hot. They may stop because they recognize the word stop from another learning experience, but usually the lesson is not learned until that child actually touches the stove or iron. Now they have learned the word “hot” and when it is said, that emotion comes back into mind usually preventing the situation from being repeated with the same result—getting burned.
This brings me to an extension of the how I believe this learning occurs which is cognitive. Cognitive has to do with a person’s perception, judgment, memory, and reasoning. This makes learning something that takes place everyday for as long as a person lives, and it doesn’t always happen in a classroom.
The learning theory comprises a set of constructs linking observed changes in performance with what is thought to bring about those changes (Driscoll, 2005). Educational technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources (Januszewski & Molenda 2008). I believe that the purpose of the learning theory in educational technology is so that everyone will understand that the link between the two theories is a reciprocal link fostered in enhancing both learning and technology with respect to education.~~~PENNY
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• Posted on: Tue, Dec 15 2009 6:45 PM
December 7, 2009
Hello All
By pennyfree
This is my first time setting up a Blog and I just wanted to see what happens when I click on this link.~Penny
• Posted on: Mon, Dec 7 2009 6:36 PM
Learning Theory Cognitivism
By pennyfree
Response to http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2007/01/isms-as-filter-not-blinker.html
In the blog, I think that the statement "it seems to me that _ism is offering something usful without any of them being complete or stand alone in their own right" really puts a cap on it from an educational standpoint. As in all educational curriculums, no one objective should stand alone and no one subject should stand alone. We need the integration of across-the-board curricula just like we need the integration of all of the _isms.
Response to http://karlkapp.blogspot.com/2007/01/out-and-about-discussion-on-educational.html
Once again the blog information points to the fact that we should not cater to just one of the _isms, neither should we disregard either _ism, but we need to take the best of each and use them for the educational purposes of our learners.~~~Penny
• Posted on: Sat, Dec 26 2009 6:39 PM
December 15, 2009
By pennyfree
References for Module 1 Blog Post:
Driscoll, M.P. (2005). Psychology of learning for instruction (3rd ed.). Boston: Pearson Education, Inc.
Januszewski, A., & Molenda, M. (2008). Educational technology: A definition with commentary. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Permalink
• Posted on: Tue, Dec 15 2009 9:30 PM
By pennyfree
My beliefs about how people learn best:
I believe people learn best when a combination of input are available to aid with the learning. First, the learning happens as a process over time of seeing something happen or experiencing something happening and learning from the process or experience. Example: We tell little children not to touch the stove or iron because it is hot. They may stop because they recognize the word stop from another learning experience, but usually the lesson is not learned until that child actually touches the stove or iron. Now they have learned the word “hot” and when it is said, that emotion comes back into mind usually preventing the situation from being repeated with the same result—getting burned.
This brings me to an extension of the how I believe this learning occurs which is cognitive. Cognitive has to do with a person’s perception, judgment, memory, and reasoning. This makes learning something that takes place everyday for as long as a person lives, and it doesn’t always happen in a classroom.
The learning theory comprises a set of constructs linking observed changes in performance with what is thought to bring about those changes (Driscoll, 2005). Educational technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources (Januszewski & Molenda 2008). I believe that the purpose of the learning theory in educational technology is so that everyone will understand that the link between the two theories is a reciprocal link fostered in enhancing both learning and technology with respect to education.~~~PENNY
• Permalink
• Posted on: Tue, Dec 15 2009 6:45 PM
December 7, 2009
Hello All
By pennyfree
This is my first time setting up a Blog and I just wanted to see what happens when I click on this link.~Penny
• Posted on: Mon, Dec 7 2009 6:36 PM
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