Thanks for your insightful descriptions about open pedagogies. It is true that open pedagogies are very powerful approaches that allow students learn through creation, collaboration and engagement. Open l pedagogies are mostly open and informal, including TED Talks, YouTube videos and so on. Learners can access to the online courses without time or space limitation. Learners can study and share their thoughts to the public and learn more new information through active engagement.
In addition, you think it is little relationship between the topic about AI and open pedagogies. Personally, I think it inspires us to explore this approach more in our learning design. For example, we can assign online discussion forum for students to discuss the benefits and shortcomings in AI application. The asynchronous discussions allow students to have more time to search supportive examples and then organize their expressions appropriately.
Your description about inquiry learning is quite insightful for me. It is important that teachers inspire students to come up with questions towards the topic they are learning. Considering the possible problems, they can further interpret evidence and design solutions. As we have discussed in the subtitle about AI in labor demand and supply, when teachers prepare some questions for students to brainstorm and discuss, they are actually learning through inquiry in different scenarios. Then they can compare the data by the existed demand-supply chart or construct other possible relations based on the related data. Whatās more, youāre right that inquiry learning is in accordance with cognitivism theory. Since this learning approach create connections to studentsā prior understandings and use appropriate learning strategies to guide and support accurate mental connections. Besides, I think it is more or less mixed with the constructivism since it also requires students to think and connect the actual situations in our society.
Kolb (2001) proposes the experiential learning theory as one of the most important learning approach for different levels of learners. There are four learning steps, including experience, reflect, think and act. That is to say, a concrete experience demands reflection and personal thoughts about the experiences. And then abstract thinking process can reach conclusions of the meaning of the experience. These would lead to the decision to act and engage in what learners have learnt.
In the above video, we get to know that experiential learning is a very practical and useful approach for learners. It invites learners to learn through doing and experiencing. They are better able to connect theories and knowledge learned in the classroom to real-world situations. In addition, learners can take charge of their own learning conditions and development.
[How It Is Used in Learning Desgin Blueprint]
As I stated in the subtopic about AI in inclusive learning, experiential learning is quite conducive to it. In the discussion part, teachers guide students to think about effective ways for teachers when they get students’ learning data through AI. Teachers can cater to every student’s unique learning requirements and offer them customized educational experiences. For example, when teachers get to know students are interested in pop music, they can arouse their interests in learning through mixing with the pop background music in the embedded videos or visual pictures.
Whatās more, AI can record student progress and uses that data to offer personalized feedback aimed at reducing cognitive overload. The use of AI is an important factor when attempting to create an inclusive learning environment that caters to each student’s unique needs and abilities. It is used to improve studentsā learning experience, instead of reducing interaction in the class.
Reference
Kolb, D. A., Boyatzis, R. E., & Mainemelis, C. (2001). Experiential learning theory: Previous research and new directions.
I am impressed by how you learn about the unfamiliar terms in economics lessons. I also learn as a behaviorist as you. I think reinforcement is very important to knowledge acquisition. After we get practices about the definition, we can get visual feedback about the results. And then I can aim at my shortcomings and spend more time learning the knowledge. However, I think as learning designers, we should also pay attention to studentsā previous experience and link them to the knowledge we plan. In the cognitivism theory, the studentsā mental activities are important. When teachers take it into consideration, students would tend to actively interact with the learning process and regard knowledge acquisition.
I am extremely impressed by your learning design in the scenario about the climate change. These three instructional methods created by behaviorist, cognitivist, and constructivist are quite insightful. It is true that behaviorists would focus on the previous templates as examples and guide students to understand the correct concepts. They are more likely to develop studentsā habits through reinforcement and feedback. They can arrange the environmental conditions and guide students to make correct responses. And as for the cognitivists, I think you can add the warm-up sections to allow students to share their previous knowledge about climate change and what they have done to improve this situation. This would greatly arouse their interests in learning and have a positive effect on the learning results.
I still remember the most unforgettable learning experience in a law class when I was in high school. Our professor divided us into several groups and guided us to imagine we were Aboriginal people. At the annual meeting, we discussed if Aboriginal people can could act to freely determine our political, economic, social and cultural development by determining legal issues within our own communities in accordance with our own values. I was in favor of that that we lived in our own organized society and our own traditional laws could give meaning and purpose to our lives. Other Aboriginal groups did not agree with me since it would make indigenous principles and traditions appear overly subjective and ānon-legalā because of our social roles. I am so impressive in this learning experience because it models participatory democracy, and is an important part of civic education and democracy modeling. When my professor assigned this topic, she expected us to learn knowledge as well as critical thinking ability at the same time. When students discuss together, they express their ideas critically and everyone is equal to speak out their inner thoughts. It is in accordance with the Cognitivism theory. Ertmer & Newby (2013) propose that cognitivism emphasizes the role which environmental conditions play in facilitating learning. In addition, this cognitive approach focuses on the studentsā mental activities that lead up to a response and acknowledges the processes of mental planning, goal-setting, and organizational strategies. Now, I can further explain why I think this learning experience so incredible! My professor tries to mix the environmental cures and instructional components, and inspire us to think, solve problems and process information in different voices. In this way, students can actively interact with the learning process and regard knowledge acquisition as mental activities.
ćReflection on My Current Instruction Styleć
Ertmer & Newby (2013) compare behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism from an instructional design perspective. Learning designers should carefully choose the appropriate strategies and resources to meet the learning requirements of students. Different kinds of designers are beneficial for learning. Behaviorists are more likely to develop studentsā habits through reinforcement and feedback. They can arrange the environmental conditions and guide students to make correct responses. As a result, students can receive reinforcement for these responses. As for cognitivists, they would make connections to studentsā prior understandings and use appropriate learning strategies to guide and support accurate mental connections. Constructivists tend to require students to actively participate in the learning by trying something in a real world context.
Considering my current instruction style, I think I am more like a cognitivist. Before class, I like to invite students to share their learning experience related to the topic, which would greatly arouse their interests in learning and have a positive effect on the learning results. Also, I prefer to organize some activities to structure new information to relate their previous knowledge. During the class, I also like to arrange practice in different methods, such as quiz, discussion, or presentation, with positive feedback. I really think that these steps in designing a lesson are important since they can accommodate with the studentsā cognitive structure and help them learn effectively.
Reference
Ertmer, P. A., & Newby, T. J. (2013). Behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism: Comparing critical features from an instructional design perspective. Performance Improvement Quarterly, 26(2), 43-71.
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