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Basic Teachings
Internal processes involved in learning could not
be seen directly.
Concentrated on cause and effect relationships
that could be established by observation.
Negative Reinforcement
Punishment
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Modern instructional design models and methods
have their roots in Gagne.
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The mind as computer
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Gagne built on the work of behavioral and
information processing theories by translating
principles from their learning theories into practical
instructional strategies that teachers could employ
with directed instruction.
Gagne is best known for his events of
instruction, Types of learning, and learning
hierarchies.
9 Events of Instruction
1. Gaining Attention
Types of Learning
1. Intellectual skills
Problem solving
Higher order rules
Defined concepts
Concrete concepts
Discriminations
2. Cognitive Strategies
3. Verbal information
4. Motor skills
5. Attitudes
Learning Hierarchies
The development of intelelctual skills requires
learning that amounts to a building process.
Lower level skills provide a necessary foundation
for higher level ones.
To teach a skill, a teacher must first identify its
prerequisite skills and make sure the students
possess them.
The list of building block skills is called learning
hierarchies.
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Curriculum should arise from students interests.
Curriculum topics should be integrated, rather
than isolated from each other.
Education is growth, rather than an end in itself.
Education occurs through its connection with life,
rather than through participation in curriculum.
Learning should be hands-on and experience
based, rather than abstract.
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Cognitive development is directly related to and
based on social development.
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Sensorimotor stage (birth to 2)
Pre-Operational Stage ( 2 to 7)
Pre-operational Stage (2 to 7)
They develop greater abilities to communicate
through speech and engage in symbolic activities
such as drawing objects and playing by pretending
and imagining.
Iconic Stage (3 to 8)
Children can remember and use information
through imagery (mental pictures or icons).
Seymour Papert
Basic Teachings
One of the first to raise national consciousness
about the potential role of technology in creating
alternatives to what he percieved as inadequate
and harmful educational methods.
Basic Teachings
Preventing Inert knowledge
The nature of situated cognition and the need for
anchored instruction
Building knowledge through generative activities
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Gardner is the only one to define the role of
intelligence in learning
Gardners theory is that at least 8 different and
relatively independent types of intelligence exist.
Linguistic
Musical
Logico-Mathematical
Spatial
Bodily-kinesthetic
Intrapersonal
Interpersonal
Naturalist