☞IT Enters A New Learning EnvironmenT☜

There are four useful models of school learning that is ideal and helpful to achieving instructional goals through preferred application of educational technology. These are the models of:

Conceptual Models of Learning

• Meaningful Learning
• Discovery learning
• Generative Learning and 
• Constructivism

✎What is Meaningful Learning?

• It is learning with a purpose, learning which allows those who engage in it to attach more meaning to the world around them, learning in which things make more sense.

Rote Learning vs Meaningful Learning

• Rote learning is information that is primarily memorized.
• meaningful learning gives focus to new experience departs from that is related to what the learners already knows.

New experience departs from the learning of a sequence of words but attention to meaning. It assumes that:

☞Students already have some knowledge that is relevant to new learning.

☞Students are wiling to perform class work to find connections between what they already know and what they can learn.

✎What is Discovery Learning?

• Discovery Learning is a method of inquiry-based instruction, discovery learning believes that it is best for learners to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

Discovery learning is differentiated from reception learning in which ideas are presented directly to students in a well organized way, such as through detailed set of instructions to complete an experiment or task. 

✎What is Generative Learning?

• Style of learning that incorporates existing knowledge with new ideas based on experimentation and open-mindedness. This style of learning encourages individual and teamcreativity, resulting in a new way of viewing old methods.

Generative learning strategies can be broken down into four elements:

• recall: involves the learner pulling information from long term memory. 
• integration: involves the learner to integrating new knowledge with prior knowledge. 
• organization: involves the learner relating prior knowledge to new ideas and concepts in meaningful ways. 
• elaboration: involves the connection of new material to information or ideas already in the learner's mind.

“The generative model is a model of teaching of comprehension and the learning of the types of relations that learners must construct between stored knowledge, memories of experience, and new information for comprehension to occur, Wittrock, 1991.”

✎What is Constructivism?

This theory states that learning is an active process of creating meaning from different experiences. In other words, students will learn best by by trying to make sense of something on their own with the teacher as a guide to help them along the way.

The most accepted principles constructivism are:

• Learning consists in what a person can actively assemble for himself and not what he can receive passively.
• The role of learning is to help the individual live/adapt to his personal world.

Two principles in turn lead to three practical implications:

• The learner is directly responsible for learning. 
• The context of meaningful learning consists in the learner “connecting” his school activity with real life.
• The purpose of education is the acquisition of practical and personal knowledge, not abstract or universal truths.

There is One common in all of the Four Learning Domains:

✎The Learners:

• are active, purposeful learners.
• set personal goals and strategies to achieve these goals.
• make their learning experience meaningful and relevant to their lives.
• seek to build an understanding of their personal worlds so they can work/live productively.
• build on what they already know in order to interpret and respond to new experiences.

✎Reflection:

• As a teacher and future teachers we need to know the Models of Learning so that we can determine the abilities of our students. It is part of our responsibility to developed the learning ability of our students.
• Now a days, many students focus on rote learning or memorization. They set aside on the improvement of the HOTS so this models of learning can help us to supply the appropriate activities to develop their learning abilities.