Week 12: Cognitive and Knowledge Development

Started with a overview of what we have covered so far on this itec800 journey as an introduction to Piaget.

---Speakers from last Monday---Jay Cross, , Bonk, and Reiser, all constructivists—problems are not always instructional problem. First, perceive the problem. Move on to best solution, even if it is not a training issue.

Behaviorism
Cognitive Theory—umbrella for many (gesalt—perceived
Constructivist

The learning theory reflects the lens of how we see what we see…

Are we paying attention to behavior or our development of thinking process—logical development—Piaget looks at all 3. Some throw out Behaviorism to look at Cognitivism, same with cognitive versus constructivist…however, we need to incorporate what is needed for what situation.
Piaget observed his own child…..came up with 4 stages of cognitive development:

Sensorimotor (birth to 1 year)..pre-symbol, preverbal, explore the world by putting it in your mouth.
Preoperational (2 to 8 years) partial logic, tall thin glass perceived as having more than short wide glass.
Concrete operational (8-14) conservation, reversibility, seriation, classification
Formal Operations (over 14)—can perceive multiple possibilities, deduce, exclude…abstract thinking,

Piaget’s ideas suffered criticism due to generalizations---critics would see anomaly, throw out idea…erroneously.
Classical thinking, not all fit in to categories….
Critique: did not look at individual differences
Montessori, modeled from Piaget…
Process )assimilation/accommodation) schema—sucking infant—part of experiencing world, learning about environment…
Schema (Airport) Been to one…easy to navigate in any other city.

Assimilate or accommodate? Schema is pattern assimilate—accommodate it more radical adjustment to environment.

Epistemology—how do we know
Broke into groups to evaluate 4 main cognitive development levels
Sensorimotor—(4 stages)
Preoperational--
Concrete Operations—conservation, reversibility, seriation, classification
Formal Operations—abstract thinking,

Final Projects:
Take our emerging technology topic, apply the theories we have learned in this semester, identify. How is it implemented….Present a 10-minute PowerPoint version of what might be a 40-minute presentation.

Movie---neonates…grasping, sucking…follow moving object…taste and hearing present a birth---3 weeks distinguish mother by sounds of voice and looks…then on to early cognition…piaget….consider ‘the theory’ of cognitive development..innate inborn abilities to learn about world,,exp world, build on it …think differently than adults…interaction with environment, active discovery….inner drive to organize and learn by past experiences…unit of itellegent behavioir is schems---mental respresentations (thinking….

Assimilation..taking in things from environment
Account for different situation…accommodation…change behavior to accommodate new element in world
Equilibraton provides stimulant to learn more about the world…
The invariation
Object permanence …general symbolic function….18 to 24 mos..
Preoperation…egocentric
Animism
Mamamedia.com (?) look at thia –what are they learning…what stage are they at??

Seymour papert?
Nextweek: Situated Cognitions

Blogfully yours,
Desmond Rutherford

Week 10 ISAN Guest speakers discuss instructional technology

We all got to meet and eat and listen to current trends in instructional technology, thanks to our guest speakers Jay Cross, Dr. Curtis J. Bonk, and Dr. Robert Reiser. While Jay Cross is revered in his field, he seemed to meander and lack dynamic speaking ability. For those of us in the munchies auditorium, only about one third of his words were audible, so we focused on the cheese and crackers. I know I am not alone in feeling that those of us in the web-cast room did not get the same quality of experience and those who were crammed in with the “No. 30 Stockton Bus” feeling of intimacy in the live room.

Hands down, Curtis Bonk was the most captivating presenter (with or without the Borg mask!) Many of the topics that he touched upon were quite exciting, i.e., the physics professor who did morning online assessments to guide the content of his afternoon lectures and stated JITT (Just in time teaching). I would have liked a more thorough covering of these topics, bit I was excited about the talk, just the same.

Robert Reiser’s talk on problem-solving the issues of employee motivation and productivity was inspiring and interesting. The Century 21 example where senior sellers would share their expertise with novice sellers was a creative solution that inspired collaborative learning was refreshing to hear especially because it involved people would normally compete against each other.

Overall, we all left feeling that we learned something and that we have made a good decision to study Instructional Technology. I hope that ISAN can provide such forums on a more regular basis.

Desmond Rutherford

Week 9--Gagne's Model of Instruction

Itec800 blog
March 28, 2006

Next class will be at 5pm on Monday:
Monday, April 10, 2006
5:00 – 7:00 PM
BH 168

Bring questions (Post on Forum) about e-learning, blended learning, m-learning
No homework---take notes—enter into forum
E-learning, Blended-learning, M-learning, Informal learning, ilearn, whatever you want to call, we want to discuss about changes in learning modes. Dr. Robert Reiser from Florida State, Dr. Curtis Bonk Indiana University and Jay Cross (E-learning)will be speaking.

After our mini, 10-min teach, group guesses what outcomes are, as teachers, we reveal---(we didn’t really do this…)
Our instruction should be done with outcomes (objectives) in mind.

Karen:
“Gagne goes Green”
Flower, fruit, veggies—create vase.
Pear stuffed with flowers, apples, peppers. We all created vases from fruit and stuffed flowers—beautiful.


Glendalyn
Obesity & Relates to disease, death (attention gettter)
“5 Healthful eating changes”
Self-assessment—then 5 volunteers read solutions to reach objectives/descriptions.
Passed out the explanantions to all after exercise.
Grain demo: passed around bags
“Look for Whole grains” not ‘multi-grains’ for best health benefit.
Asked us to fill out form---2 goals, what we learn, etc.
Pass around bag of vanilla granola—yay! We like demos we can eat.


Carmen
Internal computer components
Understanding them—why it matters—
Physical examples—mother boards, cpu’s, ram,
Specs: cpu (1.87 Giga hertz)
RAM explained w/ desk metaphor—Very good! More RAM (measured in MB), more piles of paper to work on,,….
Short quiz—


Barry
Attention getter: Bass singing “Take me to the River”—Al Green would be proud!
Crappie fishing rods—bamboo garden sticks to make rods. Explanation of keeping the bait in motion and hands on making our own rods—I’m ready to fish!

Brian
Gagne likes music (attention getter)
How to avoid paying 20 bucks for a CD when you only like 1or 2 cuts…use iTunes to buy music by the song or a whole release for $9.99—we love iTunes.

Desmond
Cootie Catchers—break from the mundane, make critical decisions with your new cootie catcher. Demo & step by step process for folding the CCs—plus live interaction of using the cootie catcher—it turns out that Dr. Foreman is going to be a millionaire.

Terrence
“Shoe/ through, done, gone, this , that, passed. Facetious”
Phonemes…phoneme chart for every sound in English.
Explored how every sound in English is linked to phoneme chart.

Anthony
Explored what makes good photograph.
Composition of thirds, with just a hint of personal aesthetics.

Peter
Started speaking German---how to count to 10
Taught us to count: (2nd vowel dicates sound)
Eins, zwei, drei, vier, funf, sechs, sieben, acht, neun, zehn
We’re off to Berlin for a pilsner.

Darren
English learners’ lesson—We are all 7th and 8th graders…
“determined”—how to say it, what it means, multiple uses—effective!





Leo

Paper airplanes
Think about flight, make airplanes

Next week—upload lesson plan……see everybody on Monday April 10th, 5pm in 168 Burke Hall. Ciao!

Desmond Rutherford