EDUC 8401: Cognition, Culture, and Learning
MD 6 Assignment: Cognition, Culture, and Learning
Multimedia Presentation
Student: Darcy Jones
email: [email protected]
Program: PhD in Education
Specialization: Learning, Instruction, and
Innovation
Professor: Dr. Toni DiDona
Walden University
November 18, 2012
Introduction of My Selected Topics
Technology
Constructivism
Educational Neuroscience
Multiple Intelligences
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Constructivism
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Authentic Learning
Opportunities
Learning is an Active
Process
Student-Centered
Learning
Learning is Social by
Nature
Classroom Choices for
Learning
Technology
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Digital-Age Learning
Opportunities
Information Accessible by
Everyone
Resembles Real-Life
Experiences
Teacher Technology
Competencies
Technology Haves -vs-
Have Nots
Educational Neuroscience
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Creativity in the
Classroom
Play, Discovery, &
Choices
Emotions in
Learning
Motivation and Self-
Regulation
Multiple Intelligences
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Individual
Differentiation
Effective Learning
Varied Instructional
Approaches
Build on Student
Strengths and Capacities
How are these all connected?
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Authentic Learning
Experiences
Child-Centered
Curriculum
Choices for Students
and Teachers
Body, Brains, & Minds
Classroom Connections
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Here are some examples of how these four topics impact my classroom and teaching on a regular
basis…
These views are created from the perspective of my
students, administrator,
and fellow educator.
Incorporating information, theory, and research from technology,
constructivism, educational neuroscience, and multiple intelligences
allows me to be a creative classroom teacher. I am expected to
follow a prescribed curriculum and rigid pacing guide that I
professionally feel does a disservice to the students. I practice
developmentally appropriate practices in my classroom and try to
provide various learning experiences, opportunities, and choices for
my students. They need to have ownership within their classroom,
each and every day, just as I do as an educator. I love to utilize
technology because it draws the students into the lesson and helps
them to learn about the tools they will be using in the years to come.
I love creating a lesson with technology because it gives me the
“WOW factor” and that ignites learning and interest. First graders
are a pretty easy audience to win over, but it makes teaching more
fun for me, too. Children are active learners and consumers of
knowledge. My classroom is not a cookie-cutter place with a robo-
teacher like the rest. I like using creative, colorful, cute, fun, active,
silly, unexpected, hands-on, spontaneous ways to teach my students
and use those methods to create a positive classroom community
where I know my students and they know their teacher.
Resources Used in My Analysis
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Edwards-Groves, C. (2012). Interactive creative technologies: Changing the learning practices and pedagogies in the writing classroom. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 35(1), 99-113. Retrieved from http://www.alea.edu.au
Fried, L. (2010). Understanding and enhancing emotion and motivation regulation strategy use in the classroom. The International Journal of Learning, 17(6), 115-129. Retrieved from http://www.commongroundpublishing.com/
Gardner, H. (1993). Multiple intelligences: The theory in practice. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Guccione, L. M. (2011). In a world of mandates, making space for inquiry. The reading Teacher, 64(7), 515-519. doi: 10.1598/RT.64.7.5
Heinrich, E. J. (2010). Thinking outside the box: Promoting student creativity. The International Journal of Learning, 17(5), 523-531. Retrieved from http://www.Learning-Journal.com
Immordino-Yang, M. H. (2011). Implications of affective and social neuroscience for educational theory. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 43(1), 98-103. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2010.00713.x
Resources Cont’d.
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Mishra, P. (2012). Rethinking technology & creativity in the 21st Century: Crayons are the future. TechTrends: Linking Research & Practice to Improve Learning, 55, 13-16. doi: 10.1007/s11528-012-0594-0
Pacino, M. A., & Noftle, J. T. (2011). New literacies for global, digital learners. The International Journal of Learning, 18(1), 477-484. Retrieved from http://www.Learning-Journal.com
Richardson, R. C., & Arker, E. (2010). Personalities in the classroom: Making the most of them. Kappa Delta Pi, 46(2), p. 76-81.
Rushton, S., & Juola-Rushton, A. (2008). Classroom learning environment, brain research and the No Child Left Behind initiative: 6 years later. Early Childhood Education Journal, 36, 87-92. doi: 10.1007/s10643-008—0244-5
Scott, J. (2009). Inspiring creativity: The collision of diversity and empowerment. Our Schools / Our Selves, 18(4), 21-23. Retrieved from http://policyalternatives.ca/index.cfm?act=main&call=A5671525
Sellars, M. (2011). Developing skills for a lifetime of learning: Strategies to develop flexible thinking. Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 29, p. 103-109. Retrieved from http://www.jbse.webinfo.lt/Problems_of_Education_Volumes.htm
Resources Cont’d.
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Van der Merwe, P. (2010). Level of emotional creativity in the classroom. The International Journal of Learning, 17(4), p. 1-14. Retrieved from http://www.commongroundpublishing.com/
Waller, M. (2010). It’s very very fun and ecsiting – using Twitter in the primary classroom. English 4--11, 39, 14-16. Retrieved from http://www.le.ac.uk.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/
Wilmes, B., Harrington, L., Kohler-Evans, P., & Sumpter, D. (2008). Coming to our senses: Incorporating brain research findings into classroom instruction. Education, 128(4), p. 659-666. Retrieved from http://www.projectinnovation.biz/index.html
Yilmaz, K. (2011). The cognitive perspective on learning: Its theoretical underpinnings and implications for classroom practices. The Clearing House, 85, 204-212. doi: 10.1080/00098655.2011.568989
Yuen, S. C. Y., Yaoyuneyong, G., & Yuen, P. K. (2011). Perceptions, interests, and use: Teachers and Web 2.0 tools in education. International Journal of Technology in Teaching & Learning, 7(2), 109-123. Retrieved from http://www.sicet.org/
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