Tag Archives: Learning
Significant Learning? Who cares.
Caring, huh? My instructor for my independent study on teaching in higher ed has led me to the significant learning model of L. Dee Fink and his Significant Learning model. I like his model because it includes all the principles I think are important for our instruction. Significant Learning Elements (Fink, 2003) Notice how caring [...]
Turning Learning Goals into Significant Learning
I have been working on instructional goals for a class assignment. I am reworking my Dreamweaver classes based on backwards design and Fink’s significant learning, and I am struggling with how to translate my goals into significant learning. I want to teach my students more than Dreamweaver; my students must learn how to use Dreamweaver [...]
Situated Learning in a Computer Lab?
What is Situated Learning? Situated learning is placing your learner in an authentic environment that mimics the thought processes and actions of a real-life task. We do our best to recreate authentic learning environments so our students can easily transfer learning from the discrete tasks taught in class to the real world. But that is [...]
Constructivist teaching in the technology education classroom
What is constructivism? Constructivism is different from objectivism. Objectivist’s teaching techniques involve the idea that all knowledge comes from outside of the individual and that the teacher give all knowledge to the learner; however, a constructivist’s teaching methods involve the idea that all knowledge comes from within the learner, that learners must take information and [...]
Advance Organizers and Schema Organized Memory
Ausubel Assimilation Theory Ausubel’s assimilation theory (1960, 1961, 1968) states that new information is linked to relevant, pre-existing aspects of cognitive structure and both the newly acquired information and the pre-existing structure are modified in the process to form a more highly differentiated cognitive structure. Ausubel promotes the idea that the most important issue influencing [...]
Free Textbooks?
Many of us spend an absolute fortune on academic textbooks. Today I was working on a blog about basic learning theories and stumbled upon Flat World Knowledge.
David P. Ausubel has passed away
I just saw a search on my blog statistics about David P. Ausubel’s death. I did a search myself and found an obituary. He passed away on July 9, 2008. I have used his theories in my research and in my instruction. He devised the idea of advance organizers, which I have used repeatedly in [...]
