6.1 (Higher-level thinking: Evaluation)
Assess two of the theoretical perspectives, on page 181, and explain how each theory of learning could help a student learn and hinder a student's learning.
6.2 (Lower-level thinking: Comprehension/ Application)
Provide an example of a real-life circumstance for declarative knowledge, procedural knowledge, conditional knowledge, explicit knowledge, and implicit knowledge. (page 191)
6.1:
ReplyDeleteI could see how the information processing theory could be helpful to some students learning, yet really detrimental to others. This theory focuses so much on the internal happenings of a person that it short changes external happenings. A person that was easily distracted may have a really difficult time under this theory. Someone who was able to block out the environment and just focus on learning would thrive under this theory.
Constructivism states that learners create their own knowledge instead of absorbing it. This would be really beneficial to someone that was good at gaining understanding and making knowledge from an outside source. If they could read well and could make good inferences they would learn. However, if someone was poor at gaining this understanding on their own they may quickly fall behind because of misinterpretation.
6.2:
Declarative: We know that school only takes place on Monday-Friday.
Procedural: We know how to drive cars.
Conditional: We know to slow down our cars when it is raining.
Explicit: We know how to wash dishes, and can explain it to someone else.
Implicit: We can type on a keyboard without looking, yet cannot explain exactly how we do it.
Reflecting:
I could see how question number two could be both a high and low level question. It requires creativity which is higher level, but also includes applying which is a lower level skill. I also see how question one could be seen as involving lower level skills since it does involve applying knowledge.