APPLYING LEARNING THEORIES 4
March 11th, 2022
Assignment Specifics
Part 1
Discuss the following:
- What can cause instability and dissonance in human behavior?
- How do disturbances in equilibrium generate opportunities for learning?
- How do you reconcile the idea that constructivism results in a subjective reality when most teachers and trainers are charged with delivery of fixed, prescribed information and ideas?
- Can both approaches be accomplished in a class?
- How might you use constructivism in designing a general science class for eighth graders? Why? How?
Part 2
Discuss the following:
- Do you think that designers and teachers should generate discomfort in young students, encouraging the process that Piaget called equilibration?
- How do instructional designers and teachers incorporate methods in courses that promote equilibration?
- How do instructors and designers help young students achieve accommodation?
- How do you think that this idea relates to adult learning theory, as stated by Malcolm Knowles in the principles of andragogy?
- How do the theoretical similarities play out in considering the design of instruction for adults?
- Are both theories related to constructivism? Why or why not?