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Educational Technology & Didactics of Informatics

Learning Theories. Educational Technology & Didactics of Informatics. Cleo Sgouropoulou * email: csgouro@ teiath .gr. Learning. Psychological phenomenon Definitions

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Educational Technology & Didactics of Informatics

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  1. Learning Theories Educational Technology & Didactics of Informatics Cleo Sgouropoulou *email: csgouro@teiath.gr

  2. Learning • Psychological phenomenon Definitions • in psychology, the process by which a relatively lasting change in potential behavior occurs as a result of practice or experience. • An internal neural process, associated with practice or experience, leading to relatively permanent changes in behaviour

  3. Learning • The scientific investigation of the learning process was begun at the end of the 19th cent. by Ivan Pavlov in Russia and Edward Thorndike in the United States. Several models are currently widely used to explain changes in learned behavior; some emphasize the establishment of relations between stimuli and responses, and the third emphasizes the establishment of cognitive structures.

  4. Basics of Learning Theories • Behaviourism • Constructivism • Socio-cultural theory

  5. Behaviorism

  6. Pavlov dogs

  7. The law of effect

  8. Buzzwords of behaviourism

  9. Behaviourism

  10. Constructivism

  11. Buzzwords of constructivism

  12. Constructivism

  13. The many faces of constructivism

  14. Radical constructivism

  15. Truth vs viability

  16. Social constructivism

  17. Constructivism in education

  18. The Vygotskian project

  19. Sociocultural theory

  20. The buzzwords of sc theory

  21. Language as a cultural artefact

  22. The paths more travelled

  23. Three perspectives We can study knowledge and learning fromdifferent theoretical perspectives. Three ofthe most influential trends over the lastcentury may be labeled as: • Empirism • Rationalism • Pragmatism / Sociohistoricism

  24. Epistemologies • Theories of the nature of knowledge and of learning ashe process of attaining such knowledge.

  25. Knowledge

  26. Learning

  27. Motivation

  28. Motivation II • Behavioristic: Manipulating rewards andpunnishments • Cognitivistic: Ways to foster students naturaltendencies to learn and understand • Situated: ”Join the literacy club”. Performingpractices allowing new ”peripheral” participantsto become gradually enculturated.

  29. Analytic focus • Behaviorist: activities of individuals • Cognitive: internal structures of information • Situative: activity systems in which individualsparticipate in social groups.

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