What is a theory? What’s the difference between theory and style?
Theory is based on data - it is provable and repeatable
Style - putting it into practice, how you do things
What is a learning theory?
A theory is about observable changes
change, reinforcement,
The theoretical foundation for teaching and learning applied within any learning environment underpins fundamental values, beliefs and priorities within the educational experience. It is through our own adoption of theoretical elements that we reveal our personal approach to practice.
While it can be debated that most education theories have influence on the new education practices that inform contemporary teaching this course reflects a "collaborative constructivist" view of teaching and learning. This view supports the inseparable relationship between personal contribution and social influence in shaping the education process. More specifically, collaboration and constructivism correspond respectively to teaching and learning responsibilities in the education experience. The learning transaction supported in this course recognises the two interests of collaboration and constructivism, while philosophically the approach belongs to the work of John Dewey's 1938 principle of "interaction" which unifies the subjective (personal) and objective (social) worlds.
The dual purpose of education includes the need to construct meaning (reconstruction of an experience) from a personal perspective and confirmation of understanding within a community of learners as part of a unified education transaction.
With the introduction of technology there is even greater focus on the creation of cognitive and social conditions that allow us to approach learning in a meaningful way that enhances the learning experience and increases ownership of learning outcomes.
Video: Learning Theories from the Hat.
Conditioning:
Pavlov - stimulus = response
Skinner - Behaviour = reward (what does this mean for lesson pace, and feedback?)
Eliminate coercion - use more positive forms of control
Connectionism
Learning is incremental
Reinforcement strength of connection - punishment doesn’t change it
Progressive Education - Dewey
Teacher as guide/self governing learners, hands on learning etc
“If doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking then learning results”
Constructivism - Vygotsky
Zone of proximal development -
Teacher is facilitator not provider
Equilibration - Piaget
4 Stages of development
Environments should provide opportunity for discovery
Social Cognitive - bandura
Observation and modelling can give the same result as experience
Teacher as model (media can impact in a violent way
Situated cognition/learning - seely-brown
Learning is embedded in the activity, context and culture
Learning is about performance
Constructionism - Papert
“Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers were placed in the classroom where nothing else is changed”
Community of Practice - Lave and Wenger
Domain, community, practice
Learning is unintentional but is wrapped in authentic contexts etc
Collaborative learning
Connectivism - Siemens
learning theory for a digital age
Sharing info across networks etc = learning
How does learning effect technology
Task: Stop Motion Video (or other)
Illustrate a theory of learning drawn from the hat - Search read and share to make an elevator pitch (can get all the information in the time it takes to ride in an elevator)
Suggested tools
Monkey Jam (windows)
iKit Movie (paid)
iPad apps
Stop motion animator (chrome extn app)
Slowmation web site contains examples
Recommended 2 frames per section
Goathe quote - learning is not…
Research led, oriented, based and informed
Mindlab hopes we will be research informed - changing our practice based on research
Consciously drawing on the teaching and learning process
“When it comes to research, don’t be intimidated into faking it by the one eyed people in the kingdom of the blind”
Go to research you know you can trust AND then jump off from their into the research that they cited.
Keep it recent.
Dr Fox Lecture - doctors fooled by an actor. Just because it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
Research Informed Practice supports and encourages the link between research and teaching.
Education research includes traditional, discipline-based research, practice-as-research, applied research and pedagogic research.
Research-informed teaching enhances the student experience, improves student learning outcomes and enriches the education experience.
Developing Research Informed Practice
- Develop a personal commitment to review research to determine what is likely to works best and to determine what ‘best-practice’ models exist.
- Encourage your peers to work with you to empower a collective of teachers who collectively participate in research and literature reviews.
- Disseminate information and research findings with your students and your peers to raise awareness of research informed practice and decisions in your school.
- Encourage your students to be reflective of their actions and decisions so that they learn to self critique and take greater responsibility for their learning outcomes.
- Develop a class culture of referring to credible sources of data and let the class develop a sound understanding of how to evaluate data/content soruces.
- Be a consumer and promoter of evidence
- Pose questions without pre-determined answers or expectations. Identify ways to enhance a commitment to investigation.
Assessment:
“In sum, the quality of RIT evidence is ensured by accessing peer-reviewed literature… Although the research evidence is rarely clear-cut or irrefutable, it does provide a sturdier platform to base our teaching than the alternatives of old habits and hearsay”
reference the samr and other class readings if it has informed your thinking
It would be good to use the samar or the tpak somewhere in your assessment.
The rubrics for a 21st Century class would also be good.
Try not to go over the time limit.
Group Activity: Reading
Using a sheet of paper create a graphic representation of similarities/differences between leading a teaching team and leading a research team.
Explain your representation to the larger group in no more than 5 sentences.
LDC Course Notes Week 4
Research informed practice
Research informed practice is an important aspect of leadership, since research provides insights both into leadership itself and the activities you are leading.
This document from Unitec on Research Informed Teaching provides some useful ideas for discussion. Research can be relevant to the classroom in a number of ways; research-led teaching, which is when the curriculum is based on research interests of teachers, research-oriented teaching, where the process of learning is as important as the content, research based teaching, where the curriculum is based on inquiry-based activities, and research informed teaching, which consciously draws on the teaching and learning process. It is research informed teaching which is our main focus on this course.
How many of these educational researchers are you aware of?
Fill in the Google Form at this address: http://tinyurl.com/p9aqy3f (in class)
An interesting example of how we might be misled by those who claim to be researchers is the famous Dr Fox lecture
How useful is research to you?
Fill in the Google Form at this address: http://tinyurl.com/nckmf7m (in class)
Leading Research Groups / Projects
The article Good Practice in Leading and Supporting a Research Team, from the University of London, outlines (on page 9) some ideas about leading a team of researchers. How might this differ from leading a team of teachers?
Reference / Citation Management Tools
These are very useful for managing your references and generating citations. There are many tools that you can use. We will briefly get you started with Mendeley, which is currently popular and integrates well with Chrome and MS Word. There is a ‘getting started’ guide on the portal
As a first step, work through the Mendeley activity in class (or homework)
- Go to Google Scholar
- Click ‘settings’ -> ‘library links’, search for ‘unitec’, check the box and save
- In Google Scholar, search for ‘digital collaborative learning’
- Scroll down the results to find the article ‘Learning, teaching, and scholarship in a digital age Web 2.0 and classroom research’
- Click on the link to the right - ‘full-text at Unitec’ then download the PDF from the library (if you don’t have library access, use the other link)
- Create an account and/or sign in at Mendeley
- Download and install Mendeley Desktop
- Add the document to your Mendeley library
- If you have Word, and have installed the plugin, create a Word document that contains both a citation and the full reference using APA
DCL Course Notes Week 4
Learning Theories
A learning theory is about changes in observable behaviour. It addresses: how such changes become relatively permanent, whether the change is immediate or potential, what role experience plays, and what aspects of reinforcement are present.
Olsen, M. & Hergenhahn, B. (2013). An Introduction to Theories of Learning (9th ed.) Boston, Mass: Pearson.
Ten learning theories that are relevant to digital and collaborative learning (see the Mind Lab YouTube video on these theories)
- Conditioning
- Connectionism and the Law of Effect
- Progressive Education
- Constructivism: Social Development Theory
- Constructivism: Equilibration
- Social Cognitive Theory
- Situated Learning / Cognition
- Community of Practice
- Constructionism
- Connectivism
Stop Motion Movie Making
Stop motion is an animation technique that physically manipulates an object so it appears to move on its own. An object is moved in small increments, then individually photographed, creating the illusion of movement when played. Dolls, LEGO® and clay figures (claymation) are often used since they are easy to re-position. Stop motion films can also involve humans, household appliances etc. for comedic effect.
Stop Motion Tools
You can make stop motion movie manually using tools like MovieMaker and iMovie, or use a dedicated tool like MonkeyJam, iKITMovie, iPad apps like MyCreate or MyStopAction, or the Chrome Extension app Stop Motion Animator. The Slowmation web site contains some examples and resources. This site recommends 2 frames per second for stop motion movies.
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