This week I had to create an Understanding by Design learning plan with the course/unit that I created last week when I developed my 3 Column Table. I created a project on statistics where students would research the social media platforms that teenagers use. Below is my UbD template for my course.
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In this course, EDLD 5313 Week 3, I had to create a BHAG! BHAG stands for Big Hairy Audacious Goal... which is a pretty funny phrase to use in education, but I think of this cute little hairy monster to the left. Just think we teachers or educators have a BIG HAIRY AUDACIOUS GOAL!! Hahahaha!!
I didn’t go to school to be an educator so I was never taught the three primary learning theories, behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism, until this week after reading Dr. Harapniuk’s blog on Four Keys to understanding learning theories. A learning theory, according to James Kelly of The Peak Performance Center, is an organized set of principles explaining how individuals acquire, retain, and recall knowledge. Now that I have learned and researched the various learning theories I feel that all of them are important and play a major role in our learning. Learning is something we do from the moment we are born until the moment we die and I believe that one theory trumps another dependent on what stage of life we are in or what it is we are trying to accomplish. I’d like to explain each one and share why I feel each one is important.
The learning environment is crucial to the success of our students in the twenty-first century. Teachers need to focus on creating a significant learning environment for each student where learning is student centered. In A New Culture of Learning (2011), Doug Thomas and John Seely Brown state that “learning takes place without books, without teachers, and without classrooms, and it requires environments that are bounded yet provide complete freedom of action within those boundaries.” We are in the twenty-first century and the digital world is growing astronomically, but yet we are teaching our students using the traditional methods that we have been using for nearly 200 years now. Basically, we are teaching our students to be successful within the industrial age which by the way we are no longer in this era so students will not have the tools necessary to be successful today. |
Jill HobbsMatthew 6:34 'Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.' Archives
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