Principles of Learning and Teaching STUDENTS AS LEARNERS – 35% THEORISTS LEV VYGOTSKY http://facultyweb.cortland.edu/andersmd/VYG/ VYG.HTML JEROME BRUNER http://tip.psychology.org/bruner.ht ml JOHN DEWEY http://www.infed.org/thinkers/e t-dewey.htm Importance of CULTURE humans use of tools and symbols to learn – culture dictates what we learn and how • Higher and Lower mental functions – elementary (or lower) functions gradually transform to HMF through culture • Central ROLE OF LANGUAGE:
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Conditioning and Learning 1 INTRODUCTION "Learning‚ acquiring knowledge or developing the ability to perform new behaviors. It is common to think of learning as something that takes place in school‚ but much of human learning occurs outside the classroom‚ and people continue to learn throughout their lives." (Gregory‚ 1961) Conditioning is the term used to designate the types of human behavioral learning. Since the 1920s‚ conditioning has been the primary focus of behavior research in humans
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Learning Styles and Academic Performance/Grade Achievement A number of studies have been designed in order to assess the relationship between learning styles of students and their academic performance. Different measures have been used in different studies. Some have used specialized tests related to the particular field‚ while some have used Multiple Choice Theory (MCT)‚ Multiple Choice Quantitative‚ Open Ended Theory (OET)‚ and Open Ended Quantitative‚ etc. A study was conducted by Lynch
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The Crucible: Themes In Arthur Miller’s play‚ “The Crucible”‚ Miller’s main focuses were the witch trials‚ behaviors and actions as a result of the hidden deeds believed to be done by the people of Salem. This book includes religious beliefs and revolves around witch trials to go into depth of the accusations and the lies for the outcomes. The play is wonderfully worded with much context for a reader to fully understand the idea and the concept. There were many themes in the play‚ those explained
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Online Learning Becoming the New Way to Learn Online learning is gradually becoming the new way to attend college. Online learning is becoming more popular than traditional classroom settings for students. Online or distance learning has great advantages with its flexibility as individuals can do learning at many times of the day from any location with an internet connection (Tseng 115). These advantages have lead to many educational institutions developing online learning in the past ten years
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Beowulf: Themes The Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf is the most important work of Old English literature‚ and is well deserved of the distinction. The epic tells the story of a hero‚ a Scandinavian prince named Beowulf‚ who rids the Danes of the monster Grendel‚ a descendent of Cain‚ and of his exploits fighting Grendel ’s mother and a Dragon. Throughout the epic‚ the Anglo-Saxon story teller uses many elements to build a certain depth to the characters. Just a few of the important character elements
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Themes and Symbols: It is quite difficult to distinguish some of the themes from the symbols in this story. Themes Symbols Hypocrisy The Box Religion: Past and Present The Stool Names of the characters 1. Hypocrisy The act of pretending to have beliefs‚ virtues and feelings that one does not truly possess. The word derives from the late Latin hypocrisis and Greek hupokrisis both meaning play-acting or pretence. A. The Adams and their
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Triple Loop Learning From Thorsten’s Wiki Jump to: navigation‚ search The concept of Triple Loop Learning is explained by Chris Argyris. Wierdsma and Swieringa also take this as a fundamental concept to explain what a learning organization does. Hargrove also uses it in his books on Masterfull Coaching Contents[hide] * 1 Model * 2 Single-Loop Learning * 3 Double-Loop Learning * 4 Triple-Loop Learning | ------------------------------------------------- Single-Loop Learning Single-loop
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experiences and skills to solve complex problems‚ creating new solutions and ideas that‚ and be beyond the scope of any one individual. As well as enhancing class performance. Good group work benefits individual too. It enables mutual support and learning‚ can generate a sense of belonging and commitment. I also learnt the following benefits on working in groups: • Apply a mix of skills that go beyond the scope of one individual. • Solve complex problems that take more than one mud. • Generates
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introduction to procurement UNDERSTANDING LEARNING CURVES ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS 1. Given the above data‚ calculate the average labour per unit given the cumulative total labour hours provided. ______________________________ 2 2. Calculate the appropriate learning rate and the overall average improvement rate for this data set _____________________________________________ 3 3. Plot the data on an X-Y chart. Label the X axis “Units Produced” and the Y axis “Average Labour per Unit
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