Learning Theories Part 2

Learning Theories Part 2

Understanding learning theories is crucial to the development of effective teaching strategies. These significant theories each, present distinct perspectives on how learning occurs.

SOCIOCULTURAL

CONNECTIVISM

Major Theorist

suggests students should combine thoughts, theories, and general information in a useful manner.

grounded on the idea that learning is heavily influenced by social interactions

Characteristics

How Learning Occurs

Major Theorist

Role of Memory

Role of Memory

Characteristics

How Learning Occurs

Adult Learning Theory

Major Theorists

Role of Memory

How Learning Occurs

Characteristics

motivated learners who bring a wealth of experience to the learning process

Lev Vygotsky

Sociocultural theory is primarily influenced by the works of Vygotsky. He claimed that cognitive development stems from guided interactions with more knowledgeable others, a concept known as the Zone of Proxial Development (ZPD)

Role of Memory

Memory in connectivism in this regard, is not an individual repository but distributed across networks.

How Learning Occurs

• The theory implies that learning is inherently social and constructed through our interactions with the environment and others.

How Learning Occurs & Types of Learning Explained

Learning is perceived as a process that builds upon and refines this repository of experience, thereby further enriching knowledge and understanding.

Characteristics

Unlike children adult learners necessitate a problem- centered approach for immediate application rather than a subjected- oriented one.

Characteristics

Connectivism in this regard, is not an individual repository but distributed across networks. allows the ability to draw connections between information sources is deemed essential, effectively transforming learning into a process of network navigation.

Memory

Memory is perceived as a reservoir of experience, which learners use as a basis for scaffolding new knowledge

How Learning Occurs

Learning is focused on connecting specialized information sets, and the connections that enable us to learn more and more important than our current state of knowing

George Seimens

Connectivism, a learning theory for the digital age, was conceptualized by Siemens (2004), building on ideas of complexity and chaos theories.

Malcolm S. Knowles

The Adult Learning Theory, or Andragogy, primarily developed by Malcolm Knowles (1980), suggests that adults are self- directed, motivated learners who bring a wealth of experience to the learning process.

Roles of Memory

• Instead of being individualistic, memory is shaped and informed by social and cultural contexts (Wertsch, 2002) Learning in this construct isconceptualized as a shift from interpschological to intrapsychological, meaning that individuals first learn in social context before internalizing this knowledge.

Characteristics

The theory implies that learning is inherently social and constructed through our interactions with the environment and others.