EDUC 1300 Learning Framework

EDUC 1300 Learning Framework aspects of critical thinking unreflective thinker, novice or beginning thinker, advanced thinker unreflective thinker someone who is careless, undisciplined, passive, conforming, self-centered, and unfair in thought novice or beginning thinker one who is active, persistent, and courageous-- someone who is empathetic to differing points of view. You rely on questioning and explaining to begin to build a routine, consistent practice of critical thinking advanced thinker a person who is autonomous, trusts reason, has humility and a sense of justice and is consistently fair fair-mindedness "Entails the predisposition to consider all relevant viewpoints equally, without reference to one's own feelings or selfish interests, or the feelings or selfish interests of one's friends, community or nation" declarative knowledge is possessing specific information about something. Example: remembering and understanding your name, your social security number, causes of the civil war Procedural knowledge when you know how to do something, such as read and add fractions conditional knowledge knowing when and why to use particular strategies. When you are aware of your own learning strengths and weaknesses and adjust your studying accordingly. Example: test or project Blooms taxonomy remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, create. Academic Listening is the ability to capture and understand complicated information that is presented orally. Guided notes are teacher prepared handouts the outline or map lectures, but leave "blank" space for key concepts, facts, definitions, etc. As the lecture progresses, you then fill in the spaces with content. Cornell notes page is divided into three sections: The note-taking section, the cue column, and the summary area. Example: Best used in lectured classes. T- notes Created by Archie David and Elvis Clark in 1996. A way to organize and learn different types of lecture information. It's also a method to record, revise, and review notes. synchronous communication Distance education using technology. Meaning that you and the instructor communicate together at the same time. neurons we have around 100 billion of them. Brain nerve cells or grey matter dendrites fibers grown from the body of a neuron axon the one long fiber from the neuron that is covered by glial cells that produce myelin myelin white matter sheathing terminal tiny bulb located at the end of each axon neurotransmitters chemicals filled in terminals synapse the communication between dendrites and neurons in terminals neuroplasticity the ability of the brain to be modified circuit pruning a natural process, is the elimination of excess neurons and synapses multi-tasking you have several tasks you want to accomplish simultaneously in order to save time. continuous partial attention staying aware of everything but rarely focusing on any one thing. glial cells surround neurons and provide support for and insulation between them. 3 approaches of academic learning surface learning, achievement learning, deep learning surface learning describes an approach to academic learning in which students are motivated by extrinsic or outside rewards, not their own desire to learn about the subject. Example: if you feel like the material being studied is boring, useless, or irrelevant Achievement learning occurs when students are motivated by the ego enhancement that comes as a result of high grades and academic awards. Deep Learning is dramatically different from both surface and achievement learning in that students are motivated to learn deeply to satisfy their own curiosity advantages of guided notes allows for planning of the lecture notes represent large picture of the concepts study groups can be more effective disadvantages of guided notes students report that class attendance is more difficult students may take passive role in class arousal theories the theories construe motivation in terms of emotion. they postulate that motivation depends strongly on affective processes. cognitive dissonance theory that people strive to maintain consistent relations among their beliefs, attitude, opinions, and behaviors. relations can be consonant, irrelevant, or dissonant. fritz Heider 1946. created the balance theory and attribution theory. homeostatic theories refers to the body's need to reach and maintain a certain state of equilibrium. The term is often used to refer to the body's tendency to monitor and maintain internal states such as temperature and energy levels at fairly constant and stable levels. balance theory postulated that people have a tendency to cognitively balance their beliefs about persons, situations, and events. problems of balance theory -predicts when people will attempt to restore balance but not how they will do it -the theory also does not adequately take into account the importance of unbalanced relationships. three types of relations postulated by cognitive dissonance theory consonant, irrelevant, or dissonant. consonant cognitions if one follows from or fits with the other irrelevant cognitions bear no relation to each other dissonant cognitions exist when one follows from the opposite of the other. problems associated with cognitive dissonance theory - the dissonance notion is vague and difficult to verify experimentally. -additional factors are needed to explain motion