BASIC LEARNING THEORIES VIS A VIS TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION

February 19, 2017filmajpro

CONSTRUCTIVIST THEORY

Learning is an active process where learners acquire and construct new ideas or concepts based on their
past or current knowledge and experiences.

To learn is to experience, that is to interact with one’s environment; to do, to feel, to sense, to handle
and to perceive the opportunities that present themselves to the learners.

The previous knowledge, concepts and views of students about an issue or issues are the starting point
of learning.

Role of the Teacher

Sage in the Stage – Facilitator

Structure opportunities for students to discover a principle and test how it works by themselves; set up
problems and guide the directions of inquiry to promote higher order thinking skills.

COGNITIVE LEARNING THEORY

Cognitive came from the Latin word cognoscere, which means the act or process of knowing.

Cognition involves the higher mental process like thinking, reasoning, judging, inferring, interpreting,
classifying.

Two fundamental characteristics of Cognitive functioning:

Organization is the systematic arranging of perceptual and cognitive information into meaningful
patterns called cognitive structures.

Adaptation is the process thru which the person seeks an equilibrium or balance between what he/she
perceives, knows and understands.

Assimilation – the process of fitting what is perceived and experienced into existing cognitive structures.

Accommodation – students or learners start to form new mental structure, modify or redefine the
previous one.

ROLE OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

Educational Technology will provide them manipulative as well as cognitive experiences so that the
concepts and abstraction can be made concrete and simple for the learners to perceive and understand
better.

SYSTEMATIC BEHAVIOR THEORY

Deductive behaviorism – behavior involves an interaction between stimuli in the environment and the
responses which the organism makes toward the stimuli.

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