viernes, 19 de octubre de 2012

Workshop 9

A) What's the meaning of the phrase "teachers must condition learners"?

It means that we, as teachers, can program our students in simple words, we determine the direction of learning through conditioning and stimulus: reward and punish.

B) Why do you think teachers must present the objetive of the class at the beginning of any activity?

We think that objectives must be presented at the beginning of the class to motivate the students, to guide them, to make them participants like an active part of the class.  With  this you will reach effective knoledge and learning at the same time.

C) Why do you think teachers must provide a challenging fearless enviroment? Refer to challenge and fear.

If we provide a challenge most of the students might feel overwhelmed but if we also provide safe enviroment like free of jokes or mocking we could obtain brilliant results like new ideas, discoveries or different points of view.

D) According to the video, in the constructivist and cognitivism approach, information is moved to long term memory.  What's the difference between the two approaches in this process?

Constructivism: info moves to long term memory while learners are involved in the process of creating their own knoledge based on experiences.
Cognitivism: this is a result of brain process, knoledge transfers from short to long memory, the student store information for later recall. and it is organized logically.


                                                   Behaviorism                      Cognitivism                   Constructivism

Teacher's rol                     Stimulator                        Attention getter organizer          model, guide           
                                                                                conductor and repeater              facilitator

Materials                     Flash cards, games               charts, diagrams, guides            creative outputs
                                                                                                                              proyect, presentations

Precursor                    Skinner                                      Vigotsky                            Vigotsky, Piaget
                                                                                                                              Bruner, Dewey

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