Reflection 2: Philosophy of Education: Epistemology and Learning Theory
I learned many things in writing my Learning Theories paper. Using OneNote to compile my thoughts and
notes made writing my paper a lot easier.
I am really starting to get how to organize my notes to make them more
meaningful to write a paper. I think my
Process of Learning and Motivation is Crucial paper turned out pretty
good.
I documented quite of few questions and terms for during my learning
process for writing my paper in OneNote.
People are not blank slates but
begin with models and knowledge of the world and learn and exist in a social
context of great intricacy and depth (Anderson & Dron, 2011). This thought is what I based much of my
reading and research about. It was
interesting to me that in the reading the Seels and Richely pointed out
effectiveness often implies efficiency when it comes to technology. But in real
life technology is not always effective and efficient.
The article by Phillips stated something quite interesting to me
"human development and to what degree this process is flexible and hence
can be influenced or manipulated; the tension between liberal education and
vocational education, and the overlapping issue of which should be given
priority—education for personal development or education for citizenship "
(Spring 2009). My first thought, is this what our districts leaders think needs
to happen in our schools? We need to focus more on citizenship instead of a well-round
liberal education. In some ways, that is
what I think at work. However, when it
comes to my daughter, I think, she should be well rounded and not have one
focus area in education. During the
course of reading about this article I was sitting in a Girl Scout meeting with
some other parents waiting for our daughters to finish a project.
A discussion came up if children should learn how to cursive right
anymore. At first I was shock because, I
would think, is a valuable thing to learn.
The first thought came to my mind; will children know how to sign
important documents in the future if they don't how to write in cursive? As I was thinking about this, a parent speaks
up and said kids don't need to learn cursive they need to learn how to
type. Half of the guys I work have poor typing
skills because they never learned how to type in school. It made me sit back and think about this
article. Teaching cursive would make a
child more rounded in the arts of writing but in the long run the child needs
to know how to type. I am still not sure
what my stance is but it did give me much to think about.
The thought about education system made me think about the results by
the OECD 2010. Programme for
International Student Assessment (PISA), 2009 Results by the OECD 2010 Stated
“The best-performing education systems embrace the diversity in students’
capacities, interests and social background with individualized approaches to
learning. This thought also from the
Philosophy of Education by Phillips meant a lot to me “We never would say that
students had been indoctrinated by their teacher if he or she had fostered open
inquiry and discussion, encouraged exploration in the library and on the net,
allowed students to work in collaborative groups, and so on. However, if the
teacher did not allow independent inquiry, quashed classroom questions,
suppressed dissenting opinions, relied heavily on rewards and punishments, used
repetition and fostered rote memorization, and so on, then it is likely we
would say the students were being indoctrinated ( 2009)." I really think the first model of thought is
what we in our society at first but I could see why the second theory of
thought was used for so many years and it some aspects today. Teachers use to be the sole owners of
educational knowledge but now with the internet and technology we have a world
of teachers without degrees behind their names. Not to say they all can facilitate the
learning experience but I do believe they can help teacher bridge concepts for
students. That is why explored the
Social Cognitive Theory for my paper.
Albert Bandura (2001) believes that humans can use learning and
motivation to power their own actions and produce desired consequence to shape their
social and cultural environments. As
quoted from Anderson & Dron, "teachers do not merely transmit
knowledge to be passively consumed by learners; rather, each learner constructs
means by which new knowledge is both created and integrated with existing
knowledge"(2010). If the student’s
engagement should not be an inevitable consequence of the environment but an
engagement of learning and motivation that help the student get to the clear
goal (Feist & Feist, 2002).
The process of learning more about the Social Cognitive theories still
just makes me concluded more that I support this thought of using this theory
to support learning and technology. I
would have to say that I have support this theory most of my adult career but
learning more about how it being used in research to understand education
technology make me optimist about how might educational system will support all
kinds of learners: visual, auditory,
tactile and or kinesthetic in the future.
References:
Anderson, T., & Dron, J. (2010). Three generations of distance
education pedagogy. The International Review Of Research In Open And
Distance Learning, 12(3), 80-97. Retrieved from http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/890
Feist, J. & Feist, G., (2002) Bandura: Social Cognitive
Theory. In J. Karpacz (Eds.), Theories
of Personality, Fifth Edition (pp. 299-326). New York: McGraw-Hill
Seels, B., & Richey, R. (1994). Instructional technology: The
definition and domains of the field.
Washington, DC: Association for Educational Communications and
Technology.
U.S. Department of
Education, Office of Educational Technology. (2010). National educational
technology plan, 2010: Executive summary. retrieved from http://www.ed.gov/sites/default/files/NETP-2010-exec-summary.pdf
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