Learning Theory: Artifact Eight Review
This synthesis paper based on our (hopefully) growing understanding of different learning theories, applied to an environment with which we were familiar with, was the culminating task in Dr. Hunter’s EDUC 5001G Principles of Learning course. This analysis, first, was to include the learning theories discussed in class, evidence to support the use of these theories, and how suited they were to the learning tasks involved. Secondly, new learning theories not discussed in the course, with their practical application in the classroom/workplace we to be offered in our discourse:
You should be able to relate these decisions to historical or contemporary views of learning and to discuss the “fit” between the design of the learning environment and the prescriptions of the learning theories/perspectives used. In your synthesis, you should be able to write convincingly about whatever learning perspectives you think would better serve the learning environment and to provide a clear rationale for your expectation that better learning would occur with your new model (Hunter, 2014).
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Affordance explained by Don Norman
SAMR Model explained by Ruben Puentedora
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The timing of this paper could not have been more convenient in my learning journey as it had immediate application in my professional life (and another example of praxis). As mentioned in this artifact, I was facing a difficult decision around the expansion of a tablet-in-the-classroom initiative. While I was all for this new direction, the initiative had its detractors. Critical to the program’s success was my ability to convince the school administration, particularly with quantifiable data, that tablet devices would lead to measurable student achievement (Griffiths, 2014).
Using Cochran, Narayan, & Oldfield’s (2013), iPadagogy: appropriating the iPad within pedagogical contexts article as my base, I observed connections between their “affordance matrix” to Gibson’s (1977) Theory of Affordances and Norman's (1988) "psychology of everyday things". Furthermore, in an academic game of ‘connect the dots”, the influences of Gibson (1977) and Norman (1998) become evident in the work of Ruben Puentedura (2012), particularly the SAMR model. Here is where my research took off as I applying modern learning concepts, not only to my studies but my professional work. In the application of SAMR (explained in detail in Artifact Eight), combined with the practices of affordance, engagement, and social constructivism, the foundation had been laid for the successful implementation of a new technology at work as well as the consolidation of my understanding of learning theory.
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Artifact Eight: Synthesis Paper
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