{"id":116,"date":"2013-09-25T09:59:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T09:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/?p=116"},"modified":"2014-04-15T12:08:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T12:08:02","slug":"learning-theroies-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Learning Theroies Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week in the Learning Theories lecture we looked at the different theories in more depth. I found it interesting as volunteer in a youth organisation that I could equate the theories depending on age of the learner.<\/p>\n<p>For example, a simple think as tying a knot is straight forward to an adult and I would use a blend of the cognitive and constructivism theories. However while teach the same knot to a youth member I would employ more of behaviourism and constructivism blend. Youth members needing a lot more support and\u00a0recognition\u00a0for small advances.<\/p>\n<p>We were\u00a0given\u00a0a lot of good\u00a0resources\u00a0to look at with the main authors in the field being Carlile &amp; Jordan. Other authors in the field include Skinneer, Chomsky, Bruner, Piaget, Papert, Vygotsky and Laurillard. Kolb, Knowles, Gagne and Bloom devised\u00a0models\u00a0that will be useful.<\/p>\n<p>Lev Vygotskys <a title=\"Zone of Proximal Development  - Wiki \" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zone_of_Proximal_Development\" target=\"_blank\">Zone of Proximal Development<\/a> struck a cord with me as I believe my\u00a0participation\u00a0in this course is to further my understanding of eLearning. I had identified that I did not have the required knowledge and needed a boost to get me to the next level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in the Learning Theories lecture we looked at the different theories in more depth. I found it interesting as volunteer in a youth organisation that I could equate the theories depending on age of the learner. For example, a simple think as tying a knot is straight forward to an adult and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[10,9,11,8,12],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learningtheories","category-reflection","tag-behaviourism","tag-cognivism","tag-construtivism","tag-learning-theories","tag-social-construtivism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}