The four conceptual models namely Meaning Learning, Discovery Learning, Generative Learning and Constructivism are useful in achieving instructional goals through preferred application of educational technology. With these conceptual models, we shall see how effective teachers best interact with their students in innovative learning activities while integrating technology to the teaching-learning process.
Meaningful Learning
This gives focus to new experience that is related to what the learner already knows. A new experience departs from the learning of a sequence of words or memory attention to meaning. It assumes that: Students already have some knowledge that is relevant to new learning students are willing to perform class work to find connections between what they already know and what they can learn.
In the learning process the learner is encouraged to recognize relevant personal experiences. A reward structure is set so that the learner will have both interest and confidence, and this incentive system gives positive reinforcement to learning.
Discovery Learning
This kind of learning is differentiated from reception learning in which ideas are presented directly to students in a well-organized way, such as through a detailed set of instructions to complete an experiment or task. To make a contrast, in discovery learning students perform tasks to uncover what is to be learned. New ideas and new decisions are generated in the process regardless of the need to move on and depart from organized set-off activities.
Generative learning
In generative learning we have active learners who attend to learning events and generate drawing from this experience and draw inferences thereby creating a personal model or explanation to the new experience in the context or existing knowledge.
Constructivism
In constructivism, the learner builds a personal understanding through appropriate learning activities and a good learning environment. The two accepted are:
· Learning consists of what a person can actively assemble for himself and not what he can receive passively.
· The role of learning is to help the individual live/adapt to his personal world.
With these two principles in turn lead to three practical implications:
· The learner is the directly responsible for learning. He creates personal understanding and transforms information into knowledge. The teacher plays an indirect role by modeling effective learning, assisting, facilitating, and encouraging learners.
· The context of meaningful learning consists in the learner “connecting” his school activity with real life.
· The purpose of education is acquisition of practical and personal knowledge, not abstract or universal truths.
No comments:
Post a Comment