The lecture this week (really given in 'O' week) stated that schools operate differently to what they did when the ICT student was there ten or even five years ago. The emphasis is now on how to think and find information than on the actual rote learning of the information itself. We GDLP students are going to be more like mentors and information directors rather than teaching specific information to be remembered and recalled in a exam.
This week the moodle material covered knowing different types of learning and the brain functions of a learner. The weeks reading pages began with an article that demonstrated brains thinking areas are different for a variety of learners: the areas of the brain in scans show differently for high achieving and low achieving learners. The reader is lead to believe that people are all different and we use areas of our brains differently. There were two videos, only one which I viewed. The video I watched was Sir Ken Robinson giving a talk at a conference about a learners creativity. After talking about a number of things in his talk, he emphasized that learners are all different and we should see areas where they are gifted and help them to develop in those areas rather than consider them low achievers; he also recounted that schools do not emphasize on the creative subjects, like music, drama, and dance.
The course material separated into a anther subject area and described "learning theory". The concept was broken into four areas: behaviourism, cognitivism, [social] constructivism, connectivism. Although there are four, the text seems to imply that there are only three theories and connectivism is not part of the theory but a concept. All the theories seem to have their place in learning, however, constructivism is the theory for our on-line learning.
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