Fitting the Pieces Together

From doing research on the different learning styles I have learn a lot and I am now able to pull resources of skills from all of the theories and apply each to my learning needs. Before taken this course I was not that aware of my learning strategies or how the different learning strategies could help me to develop skills in ways that would not only be beneficial to my career, but also to the facilitation of learning skills germane to the student’s needs as well. As an adult learner and educator in the digital age, my learning preference is the “Constructivism Learning Theory”. This learning theory is diverse in its network, its strength are tied to the context of occurrence and its various communities. Its delivery is balance among experiential learning with guided mentoring and collective reflection for all learners. According to Siemens and Downes 2005, this theory expression through nonlinear association webs of representations. Co-design of learning experiences personalized to individual needs and preferences.” Also, I believe, that this the way to learning for the next generation because of its technical suaveness and constant evolving for better understanding and users friendly.

The learning theories that I have the most information about are the cognitive learning styles, adult learning styles, and the social learning styles. The cognitive learning style refers to the ways in which individual process information. The adult learning style is an attempt to develop specific learning theory for the adult learners. According to Knowles, adults are self-directed and expect to take responsibility for their decisions. The social learning styles are mainly individuals is more likely to adopt a modeled behavior if it results in outcomes they value. Observational learning is also known as imitation or modeling. Even when is comes to technology it plays a big part in learning especially as an adult. Technology plays a very important role in how to search for information via the web, different search engine. Some sites that are very helpful when it come to research are Google, bing, and even the Walden University library if you have access.

 References

Downes, S. (2005). An Introduction to Connective Knowledge. In T. Hug (Ed) (2007). Media, Knowledge and Education. Exploring New Spaces, Relations and Dynmics in Digital Media Ecologies.

Knowles, M. (1968). Andragogy, not Pedagogy. Adult Leadership., 16(10), 350-352, 386.

Knowles, M. (1984). Andragogy in Action. San Francisco:: Jossey-Bass.

Siemens, G. (2005). Connectivism: A Learning theory for the Digital Age. Internaltional Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, 2(1).