Nicholas Kapetanis's List: Learning Beliefs

• Unfortunately, education is commonly perceived as something to be transmitted from The Wise to The Ignorant.
• "Unfortunately, education is commonly perceived as something to be transmitted from The Wise to The Ignorant. Something outside of ourselves, that can be achieved or absorbed or collected."

• • Sample Online Activity Objects Designed with Constructivist Approach

• • Students learn from   each other as well as the teacher.
   
  • Students learn better   by doing.
• teacher needs   to be a learner and a researcher, to strive for greater awareness
• adjust their actions to engage students

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• • core concept, project based learning with technology intergration
• Others talked a little about what they learned. "You can ask me anything about the harlequin duck.
• "The state's Web site probably doesn't have as good information as what's in here," says Mark McCollough, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service expert on endangered species who had advised the students. "I want to share this with our regional office."
• • Students taking responsibility for theri work
• "The goal for us at King Middle School is to create opportunities for all kids to do representational work about their learning,"
• • Constructivism: students working together

• Learning From Each Other

   

  Brown likes the fact that video requires students to work in teams and learn from each other.

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• New technologies have the   power to stimulate the development of intellectual skills such   as reasoning and problem solving ability, learning how to learn,   and creativity.
• New technologies have the   power to stimulate the development of intellectual skills such   as reasoning and problem solving ability, learning how to learn,   and creativity.
• Not only do technologies allow access  to a broader range of instructional resources, but they also offer  students the opportunity to learn to use electronic tools to access  information and develop research skills using the technologies  they will face in the future" (US Congress, Office of Technology  Assessment, 1995, p. 59).

• The new technologies can   contribute in several ways to better learning in various subjects   and to the development of various skills and attitudes. The nature   and breadth of learning depends on previously acquired knowledge,   and on the type of the learning activities using technology.

    

      

   
• Student Motivation
• New technologies manage to develop  students' interest in learning activities,
• Most students show greater   spontaneous interest in a learning activity that uses a new technology   than in the traditional approaches in class.
• The attention span or concentration   that the majority of students are willing to devote to learning   activities is greater when they use a new technology than when   they are in a traditional setting using traditional resources.
• The use of new technologies   promotes cooperation among students in the same class and among   students or classes in different schools, near or far,
• The potential for simulation,   virtual manipulation, rapid merging of a wide variety of data,   graphic representation and other functions provided by the new   technologies contributes to a linkage of knowledge with various   aspects of the person, thereby ensuring more thorough assimilation   of the many things learned.
• The potential for simulation,   virtual manipulation, rapid merging of a wide variety of data,   graphic representation and other functions provided by the new   technologies contributes to a linkage of knowledge with various   aspects of the person, thereby ensuring more thorough assimilation   of the many things learned.

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• How can technology influence student academic performance?
• Technology applications that enable student collaboration tend to result in improved achievement
• In another study of student collaboration, when two students worked together on one computer, the student at the keyboard provided more answers during discussion while the other student asked more questions. The social interaction skills acquired through teamwork were found to be important to mastery of certain intellectual skills

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