Intro to Learning and Learning Theories
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Warm up March 2nd
Take all your results from the activity on
Monday and consolidate them. How do
you learn best? What are your areas of
weakness. Were the results to the tests
consistent?
Now answer this - What is learning?
Learning tests
Active – Reflective
Sensing – Intuitive
Visual – verbal
Sequential – Global
Intro to Learning and Learning
Theories
Learning is
Relatively permanent change in behaviour
that results from practice or experience.
Involves a stimulus and a response
Stimulus is action that produces an activity
Response is reaction to the stimulus
Pavlov
Developed classical conditioning –
learning though association of a stimulus
and a response
Experimented with dogs
Natural response or unconditioned
response [UCR] is involuntary
Elements that produce UCR are
unconditioned stimuli [UCS].
Pavlov
Conditioned response [CR]
Conditioned stimulus [CS]
Try this: Walk around campus and high
five someone. See how many times you
can high five them during your
conversation. Don’t be too obvious.
Skinner
Respondent behavior – like operant
conditioning is involuntary
Operant conditioning
Any response that is followed by a
reinforcing stimulus tends to be repeated
Rewards and Punishment
Piaget
Concept of the schema
Assimilation
Understanding something new in terms of
existing schemas
Accommodation
When something isn’t explained by existing
schemas, we are forced to adapt
Kolb
Experiential learning theory (ELT), and learning styles inventory
(LSI).
4 distinct learning styles (or preferences), based on a fourstage learning cycle.
Way to understand individual people's different learning
styles, and also an explanation of a cycle of experiential
learning that applies to us all.
Kolb includes this 'cycle of learning' as a central principle in his
experiential learning theory.
immediate or concrete experiences' provide a basis for
'observations and reflections'. These 'observations and reflections'
are assimilated and distilled into 'abstract concepts' producing new
implications for action which can be 'actively tested' in turn creating
new experiences.
Miller
Cognitive psychologist
TOTE model
Test
Operate
Test
Exit
Bandura
Social or observational learning
What we learn from watching others is
as important as what we learn from
doing.
Processes include
Attention
Retention
Motor reproduction Processes
Motivation
Gregorc
Gregorc based his learning styles on brain
hemisphere research.
Learning styles measured by the Gregorc
Style Delineator fall on a continuum rather
than being polar extremes.
Perceptual preference
* abstract (reason and intuition)
* concrete (the senses)
Ordering preference
* sequential (linear)
* random
Combining them leads to four types of learners