What Is Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Learning Theory?
According to Vygotsky, learning and development are inseparable from the social and cultural contexts in which individuals participate.
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Piaget Learning Theory: Stages Of Cognitive Development
Piaget’s stages of cognitive development include the sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational stage.
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Bandura’s 4 Principles Of Social Learning Theory
Bandura’s Social Learning theory explained that children learn in social environments by observing and then imitating the behavior of others.
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The Difference Between Constructivism And Constructionism
Constructivism focuses on how learners construct knowledge through experience while constructionism emphasizes learning by making.
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The Pedagogy Of John Dewey: A Summary
Dewey believed that learning was socially constructed and that brain-based pedagogy should emphasize active, experiential learning.
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A Visual Summary: 32 Learning Theories Every Teacher Should Know
From Constructivism and Connectivism to Situated Learning, here are 32 of the most common learning theories every teacher should know.
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A Metaphor For How We Learn: Rhizomatic Learning
Rhizomatic Learning embraces the beautiful complexity of the human experience, and the unpredictability of the learning process.
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A Quick Summary Of The Theory Of Learning Curves
The frequency of repetition and rehearsal, if spaced at intervals, promotes better recall of memory than if presented in one long burst.
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Learning Theories: Adaptive Control Of Thought
ACT-R is a way of specifying how the brain itself is organized in a way that enables individual processing modules to produce cognition.
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What Is The Taxonomy Of Significant Learning?
The Taxonomy Of Significant Learning is useful for making design considerations for student learning experiences.
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How The Activity Learning Theory Works
Students need incremental challenges they can engage with at a social level so the entire community of learners can collaborativelay meaning.
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Learning Theories: Three Levels Of Information Processing
Three Levels Of Information Processing by Steve Wheeler, Associate Professor, Plymouth Institute of Education This is number 5 in my blog series on major learning theories. My plan is to work through the alphabet of psychologists and provide a brief overview of their theories, and how each can be applied in education. In the last post we…
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Learning Theories: Jerome Bruner On The Scaffolding Of Learning
Bruner believed that when children start to learn new concepts, they need help from teachers and other adults in the form of active support.
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Shifting Toward An Architecture of Participation
Learning is changing–becoming more entrepreneurial than directly didactic. That is, more learner-centered and than teacher-controlled.
