Learning+Theory+Notes

Notes on the Wikipedia article, "Learning Theories"
1. What I know: 2. Ask questions of the text; 4. Notes
 * Behaviorism: promoting learning by stimulus and response methods; best results with intemittent positive stimuli
 * Constructivism: learning through doing; acquiring knowledge by investigation; project based learning
 * Cognitivism: learning through the use of the five senses; separating facts from opinions; ideas and theories as opposed to provable hypotheses
 * Behaviorism: Is it ancient?
 * Constructivism: How does it relate to scientific method?
 * Cognitivism: Is this the "positivist" approach?
 * Behaviorism spawned direct instruction, or lectures or demonstrations rather than discovey
 * Constructivism is learning where the individual constructs knowledge through pursuit of a task or project. In this model the teacher is a guide rather than the source of knowedge.
 * Cognitivism is learning based upon memory, prior knowledge, or metacognition