Reflection
I love to learn new
things. But through this course I now have a deeper understanding of how I
learned and why some things are more interesting to me then others. In the
beginning of this lesson I was interest in learning how the brain process
information. In our week two discussion we talk about the brain and how it
process information. We also mention that that different factors can alter out
brain function and cause it to sometimes missed process information. I have
never really given that a thought until then.
I had once studied
Gardner’s Multiple Intelligent theory but had never taken a look at the
learning theory matrix (behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, and
connectivism). I really believe in the fact that every child can learn just not
all in the same way. But I had only view this concept through the eyes of
Gardner. Studying the learning theory matrix and all of it concepts was by far
the most surprising and informative piece of material in this course.
I had always pride
myself on being visual learning. As I mention in earlier discussion I have gained a deeper understanding about the
various learning theories and styles during the course of this class. I fell in love with Gardner’s Multiple Intelligent theory a couple of
years earlier but through this course I have a deeper and better understanding
of the different learning styles. I believe that all children can learn but not
all in the same way and on the same day. I’ve taken learning inventory and knew
that I was not a visual learner but had other learning intelligent as well.
With the help of this course I now know that learning is done through
progression and development differently at different stages of life. This was equally evident in Bill Kerr’s blog on
_isms. Kerr wrote “It seems to me
that each _ism is offering something useful without any of them being complete
or stand alone in their own right” (Kerr, 2007). In a sense we need to
incorporate all the learning theories together in order to completely get an
value and sound education.
