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 * MAT 610 - 2011 Educational Technology (errr Pedagogy)**

Our initial thoughts about learning from
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Learning is... >>
 * growing and expanding one’s horizons
 * adding knowledge to personal repertoire that stays with you
 * engaging in/doing an activity, practice, or task until one becomes skilled
 * deepening one’s understanding and making connections
 * changing one’s behavior as a result of learning
 * determines growth of character and intellect that helps toward goals and achievements
 * process acquisition and retain new information
 * creation of new nerve synapses
 * mastery beings with some kind of information and ends in demonstration
 * evolving intellectually and emotionally to boldly go where you have never gone before
 * making mistakes is a part of learning
 * everyone CAN do it

 How do we learn?
 * visually
 * aurally
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">kinesthetically
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">storytelling
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">read/listen
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">through words
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">do
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">practice
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">experientially
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">hands-on
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">slowly and at own pace
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">through inquiry - ask questions and nag for responses
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by associations or connections to previous knowledge
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">hypothesize, guess, anticipate, predict, and test
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">exemplars or models
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">apprentice or mentor
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">through modelling or through imitating/mimicking
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the more you learn, the more you’re able to learn, reach a level and invent your own knowledge
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11pt; font-size: medium; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the greater the foundation the easier it is to learn (picture of foundation)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-family: Times; font-size: 11pt; font-size: medium; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the greater the foundation (larger number of nodes) the more connections you can make (picture of neural network)