Ashlee's Teach Create Motivate

  There are numerous methods and models lead educators and learners into technology-driven society which is an indispensable outcome of content based curriculum. However, there are repositories of varied information and it is challenging to include necessary content into curriculum and design the lessons in interdisciplinary system of 21 st century skills of education. Language teachers in this century needs to facilitate learners to be an autonomous and self-regulated as well as knowing things surrounding us and how they are related with each other. In addition, Piaget and Bruner, Vygotsky (1962, 1978) also emphasized the importance of this developmental process and they believed that learner’s intellectual development could only be fully understand through socio-cultural environment in which one’s development was occurring (Hirumi, 2002). From the lenses of Objectivism, meaning is perceived as an independent of the understanding of individuals whereas Interpretivist ...

I could state my insight explicitly from one of the favorite sayings of Aristotle “Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach”. Understanding adult learners and identifying their needs is quite crucial in order to enhance their knowledge and skills into experience as well as overcoming difficulties in a constant way. As it has been prescribed all of the definitions so far, there is no certain sound in defining an adult learner by means of universal statements. As Polson (1993) discussed in her article, the attributes of adult learners vary from their ages, social roles, background, education level and so forth. In addition, Polson clearly characterizes adult learners’ multiple roles, tasks, real life experiences, and needs including their aging process in her paper’s layout. These roles could also be associated with situated learning theory outlined by Brown, Collins and Duguit in 1989 as it is evolved by Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory. The nature of situated cognition is...

It is beneficial for teachers to understand how the brain works in order to assist learners in several ways. We all educators can help our students focus on their attention that will help increasing their retention and comprehension. This could be possible with brain-based learning that draws insights from the fields of psychology, technology, and neurology. Once an educator comprehends the concept of brain-based learning, she or he can help students to keep diverse learners engaged by creating an enriched learning environment as well as providing valuable feedback and addressing students’ needs both socially and emotionally. Brain-based learning consists of following six main steps below; ·          Making a safe learning environment ·          Starting early ·          Encouraging growth ·          Getting both bra...

Radical constructivism is the one way of limiting field of rational thought from the inside that you can sort of grope until you come to the boundaries. One of these boundaries is consciousness whereas we have no rational model of consciousness. In addition, we have no model of memory that is the reason I believe that what lies outside is much more important.   Piaget’s theory of cognitive development is hierarchical and variant like organisms assimilate from the food as a metaphorical representation from biology. Whereas, assimilation means that you take out of a present experience what fits experiences that you have had before. You have a pattern and whatever fits that pattern, you are ready to take the rest you discard you do not know about it, that’s the reason that it is quite easy to observe it with children since they take in what they know already and the rest include that they do not even experience or see. This is also valid for adults who catch themselves as an i...