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1. Week 4-2: Leave a  30-word  micro session summary. 2.  In the article (p. 262), the authors mentioned the importance of supporting higher-order thinking skills in undergraduate education since business and industry appeals for flexible and creative employees who can look beyond the numbers and the given information. For that reason, the authors advocated pedagogical approaches that strive to develop students’ abilities to  (1) synthesize disconnected pieces of information , ( 2) associate facts received from different sources  and (3)  evaluate the importance of information . As a student, how would you evaluate your overall college classroom learning experience in terms of developing your higher-order thinking skills? Do you think your college courses have sufficiently supported you to develop the three -(1), (2), and (3)- abilities so far? If so/not, why do you think so? Yes, my college classrooms have helped me to develop all these skills through a variety of
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4-1 Teacher Centered learning

1. Week 4-1: Leave a  30-word  micro session summary. Instruction of students can either be teacher centered in which the teacher delivers material much like in a traditional classroom, or student centered which is focused on group work and self discovery.  2. Thinking back of your prior learning experiences in the classroom as a student, how teacher-centered classroom teaching approaches such as direct instruction have influenced your personal learning? I am a non traditional student, so I went through the school system earlier than probably most in the class having been born in 1986. When I went to school, classes were really only teacher centered, it was not until I reached college that I went to any type of student centered classroom. Being in teacher centered classrooms taught me many valuable skill sets, such as being able to focus my attention, becoming self reliant, and responsible for my own tasks. To this day I feel as though I have a high self efficacy due to m
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Week 3-2

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1. Vygotsky  argued that learning has direct affects upon development, as well as language. Scaffolding and assistance from peers can increase learning from already attained knowledge to task that previously require assistance through the Zone of Proximal development.  2 This visual was a nice way me to visual several of the concepts presented including that scaffolding is really a way for a teacher to simply give a helping, lending hand to students to help them obtain the knowledge that they need. Peer groups can also be extremely instrumental in learning as well. The learning that I pictured throughout the processed look like below.   3. I believe that Vygotsky offers many great revelations to how learning occurs. With help, an individual 4. I think that this theory is a great theory however I do not feel that this is personally very relevant. As a child, I was expected to learn on my own, in a non group setting, reading and acquiring knowledge from a book. This was clearly
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Week 3-1

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1.  Piaget uses stages of learning to describe how new knowledge is assimilated and accommodated. This occurs through several stages of learning ranging from infant through adulthood in which constructivism is used, that the learner takes an active role in the process of acquiring knowledge. 2. With Piaget, learning is done in context of each individual having a unique set of schema in which knowledge is assimilated. If there is no current schema that matches, the knowledge is accommodated by creating a new schema.  Each individual goes through a set of learning stages from Sensory motor, to Pre operations, to concrete operations, to finally formal operations. This type of learning was novel as this was one of the first times that the learner would play an active role in their own education/learning. 3. The big things that I learned during this module, was how fluid knowledge/learning can be. The use of social interaction and the student playing such a large and active role in l
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2-1 Social Cognitive Theory and Motivational Theory

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1. Social Cognitive theory explains the interactions we as humans have in a social setting which help us to learn and adapt. Motivational theory and self efficacy were also examine to see if they had any affect on learning ability in individuals as well. 2. Learning from the social cognitive perspective is demonstrated quite well by the phrase, 'Monkey See, Monkey Do" just as in the BoBo doll experiment. Learning is accomplished through social interactions, the environment surrounding the individual, and personal differences.  All memes were found on wordpress.com. 3. I really enjoy this section of class, as one of my favorite concepts from my psychology courses is Maslow and his heiracrchy of self fulfillment, as this section of self efficacy and motivations directly ties into that idea, that one must be fulfilled in one area of the pyramid to move to the next. Someone who is high in self efficacy will fulfill more areas as they may see themselves as more able to a
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Week 1-2

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1. Leave a  30-word  micro session summary. Classical and Operant conditioning are the two leading behaviorist theories describing how individuals learn. Watson and Skinner described two different prominent theories of learning, based upon reward/conditioned systems. 2. What is 'learning' from the behaviorist perspective? Learning is defined as a set of concrete actions that will be observed after a stimulus is presented. Learning can occur in under almost any circumstance and the process occurs by stimulus, action, reward and/or punishment. Each person is always learning as this circumstance is always occurring whether in a traditional classroom or in daily life or in a social setting or in a novel situation.  3. What are the big things that  you learned about behaviorism? I actually enjoyed this first week as a psychology major it was more of a review however it was nice to also apply this to human learning instead of only animals. Although I was a bit bummed t
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