Monday, August 31, 2009
What is Learning?-Week 2-Behaviorism
In my post from week one, I discussed how learning is the connection of prior knowledge and skills with new knowledge and skills. After reading and contemplating the topic of behaviorism, I have come to the realization that learning would also involve the connection of existing behaviors and attitudes with ones that are foreign or new to us. As teachers, we are constantly trying to teach our students new behaviors and expose them to new ideas and perspectives in hopes of developing their attitudes of people, places, and ideas. We try to accomplish this by considering what stimuli our students may have been exposed to in the past and how they may have responded to that stimuli. Based on this information, we can create effective stimuli that will result our students learning and developing new desired behaviors and attitudes.
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I agree on stimuli being important in the learning process. I tend to get bored with repitition. I need have diveristy in how I learn. I do have trouble changing my way of doing things it I like what I am doing. I resist change in anyway. This is something I need to work on because sometimes change is good.
ReplyDeleteI like the way you discussed building upon past successes in regard to what can motivate a student. The ability to personalize the teaching approach to a specific student or group of students seems like something that we should constantly strive for. Everyone is unique and brings their own context to learning, so it only seems appropriate to acknowledge that when it comes to finding and presenting effective stimuli.
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