Week 2 - The brain and learning theory

I visited the Walden Library and found a couple of articles, one, on Connecting Brian Cambourne’s Conditions of Learning Theory to Brain/Mind Principles: Implications for Early Childhood Educators and Where do the Learning Theories Overlap?

Both articles are very interesting and I hope you can find the time to read both of them. Brian Cambourne’s theory on how we learn and the way the mind work basically boils down to eight concepts and they are, immersion, demonstration, engagement, expectations, responsibility, employment, approximation and response. He first begins by stating that we actually gain knowledge from experiences and environment. He also went on to say that it does not matter how old you are or if you are in pre K or a graduate student his suggestion is that we all learn in the same manner. We must keep the brain stimulated with a wide variety of impulses. The Cambourne model is to help develop the student into independtly learning and he talks about how to stimulate the brain to help students gain knowledge and skills.

The other article is very clear that there is multiple intelligences, learning styles, and brain-based education are distinct fields of study but share similar outcomes in the practical environment of the classroom. What it is really saying if you visit any school for any length of time you will notice similarities and differences in their beliefs and practices, of multiple intelligences, learning styles, and brain-based education.

Reference:

Early Childhood Education Journal, Vol. 31, No. 1, Fall 2003 ( 2003) Stephen P. Rushton,1,3 Janice Eitelgeorge,1 and Ruby Zickafoose2

Education Leadership September 1997

http://web.ebscohost.com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=39&hid=111&sid=f2a30160-7840-464c-bdb6-dd9d1b1ad15e%40sessionmgr104

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Great Instructional Design Sites from Fellow Blogger

One of the sites I visited was Instructional Design and this is an excellent site, with great information for Instructional Designers and students. I didn’t know there were different types of instruction design models and most of them are spin off of the ADDIE Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation model. Although this model has some significant weaknesses, it is still a model other instructional design are modeling. I will be visiting this site often; it has a lot of learning tools and tutorials, that will be useful for me.

One can learn a lot from visiting this site. http://www.instructionaldesign.org/models/addie.html



Here’s another site whit a wealth of information, you can find on this sit, awesome. It is another great resourceful site I will be visiting quite often. This site has great information that is going to help me a lot, it offer information, such as what is the definition for Instructional Design, Job listing, LinkedIn.com, (another great site), ID Conferences, ID Forums, and other ID sites and you can see what other Colleges and Universities are offering in the field of Instructional Design. Also, if you would like to know what the pay scale is for Instructional Designers you can find it on this site, as well. http://www.instructionaldesigncentral.com/

The Rapid E-Learning Blog site is a amazing site that offer resources under the Instructional Design link that gives great examples on passive and active learning, which I found very interesting and also found out I am more of a passive learner. Not that any thing is wrong with that but there is a difference between a passive and active learner. I would recommend you visit the site and see if you are a passive or active learner. I like that this site use actual video PowerPoint sides to give examples of a number of learning tools. Great great site!

http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/instructional-design/

My Blogs on Resources and Learning

This Mother’s Day Weekend I was on the Internet researching “Blog” sites and I found a number of great sites. These sites will indeed be useful for me, while I pursue my Instructional Design and Technology Degree. I was truly amazed because I did not have a clue there was so much information available and free. Wow! One of the sites I visited and took a great interested in was eLearning Concepts. This site is full of resource and information on Instructional design jobs, Media Social Networking, Technology Tools, and Web 2.0, just to get you started. I read Christina blog on “Show and Tell”, she had participated in a technology seminar at Bloomsburg University and one thing that was discussed at the seminar was Web 2.0 tools. She said it was the best educational weeks of her life. Here is a list of some of tools she shared on her blog and can be useful in business, personal or educational settings: Flick, Quia, and Googledocs. She even gave her user name and password to try Quia. I will be visiting eLearning throughout my courses and I hope you will as well. http://elearningconcepts.wordpress.com/

Internet Time Blog is another site, I visited and I wanted to use it as example. It isn’t a good site. It had a lot of dated materials on the site and wasn’t as useful. So my thought was why isn’t the site being updated. The site isn’t user friendly and the links on the right side of the home page are virtually imperceptible. However, I did find a link on how people learn and it was interesting to read and the information on the site was what we had in this week’s reading. It is true everyone has a different learning style and there is great information here. Here’s the link just in case you want to check it out. http://www.internettime.com/blog/archives/000023.html

WorldPress.com http://en.wordpress.com/tag/instructional-design/

“Blog about: Instructional Design” - overall was the best thus far for me. I’m sure there are many more great sites out there in the IT world. It is a blog site I hope you will check out and I know it is a site I will visit more often. It is user friendly, clean – I like the white space, not overly crowded with information, is well organized; and great information for Instructional Design degree seekers.

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