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Top : New : 23-Feb-2010
Training and Development Free Resource Library: What's New
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Cognitive Science and Learning
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Learning how to learn (Bateson)
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JS Atherton
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For our purposes, there are two quite different traditions about learning how to learn. One stems from the Deep and Surface learning strategies studies (about responses to being taught), and the other from the work of Gregory Bateson.
Bateson maintained that many discussions about learning were confused by category errors about the kind of learning they were about. He suggested that there are a number of levels, in which each superior level is the class of its subordinates (rather like Kelly's notion of superordinate and subordinate constructs).
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Cognitive Dissonance and learning
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JS Atherton
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Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance tries to account both for some perverse aspects of learning and failure to learn, but also for readiness to learn.
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Constructivism
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Constructivism as a Paradigm for Teaching and Learning
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EBC
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Welcome to Constructivism as a Paradigm for Teaching and Learning. Start with the Explanation section to gain a good understanding of the CONCEPT of constructivism. Then go on to Demonstration, where we move from CONCEPT TO CLASSROOM!
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How Does Constructivist Theory Differ From Other Approaches To Learning
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na
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As with many of the methods addressed in this series of workshops, in the constructivist classroom, the focus tends to shift from the teacher to the students. The classroom is no longer a place where the teacher ("expert") pours knowledge into passive students, who wait like empty vessels to be filled. In the constructivist model, the students are urged to be actively involved in their own process of learning. The teacher functions more as a facilitator who coaches, mediates, prompts, and helps students develop and assess their understanding, and thereby their learning. One of the teacher's biggest jobs becomes ASKING GOOD QUESTIONS.
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Experiential Learning
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guide to facilitating effective experiential learning activities - experience-based training methods - learner-centred development
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BusinessBalls
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Experiential learning is also referred to to as experiential teaching, or experiential training and development, or experiential activities, and other variations of these terms.
However the word learning is significant, since it emphasises the learner's perspective, which is crucial to the experiential learning concept.
Conversely, the words training and teaching significantly reflect the teacher or training perspective (on behalf of the teaching or training organisation - e.g., a school or employer).
Experiential learning is therefore the most meaningful name for this concept.
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Leaders In Learning and Training
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Articles and critiques of David Kolb's theory
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Tom Pickles
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Many of us engaged in professional learning have a broad understanding of the work of David Kolb. His highly influential book entitled 'Experiential Learning: Experience as the source of learning and development' was first published in 1984 since when his ideas have had a dramatic impact on the design and development of lifelong learning models. Of course, David Kolb's work can be traced back to that famous dictum of Confucius around 450 BC:
"Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand."
This article aims to help you explore the development of experiential learning from its original proposal into some of its current refinements and applications today, using the World Wide Web (the Internet) as a vast reference library. Excellent balanced approach to Kolb's work.
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Memory
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Human Memory Model
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na
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Scientists do not yet understand many things about human memory and many of
the ideas and theories about it are still quite controvercial.%uFFFD The following
discussion emphasizes some of the more widely agreed upon ideas.%uFFFD For
instance, most scientists agree that it is very useful to describe human
memory as a set of STORES which are "places" to put information, plus a set of
PROCESSES that that act on the stores.
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Memory
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na
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Decent primer on human memory suitable for those with little background in psychology, but also contains references and citations
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Instant Replay - Building Long-term Memory
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Kate Melville
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Princeton scientists have discovered a key mechanism the brain uses to transfer short-term memories into permanent storage, a finding that could have broad implications for understanding how the brain maintains long-term stability.
Researchers led by neuroscientist Joe Tsien found that the brain appears to have a system of repeatedly replaying and reinforcing the same cellular event that led to the initial formation of a memory. The reinforcement is critical for creating the cell-to-cell connections that constitute long-term memories, the researchers found.
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Memory
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JS Atherton
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Memory is of course central to learning, which could not happen without it: indeed “memorising” is a synonym for the lowest levels of rote learning.
The diagram to the right illustrates schematically the current view of memory, based on the model of Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968). Input of sensory information starts at the top, goes through “sensory memory” or a “sensory buffer” into short-term memory (STM), and hence to long-term memory (LTM).
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