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  1. Nov 2016
    1. ‘digital immigrants’

      I still consider myself a Digital immigrant in many areas of Technology. I also believe it is not a bad thing as we have an advantage to multitask and think from a perspective of a person who has no interest or inclination towards technology.We grew up learning the best from both worlds of technology and Human interaction. Sitting in front a computer all day does not make you an expert in that subject unless you go and experience the same in the real world. Having said that ,This is the time when we are working with the Digital Natives.Instructional design and games based learning is something that sparks the interest of a student.One has to adapt to the new technologies and change their methodologies of teaching and increase their technological fluency. "Thought Experiments" take place for digital immigrants which they design a game for the digital natives to learn.

  2. Oct 2016
    1. He claimed that students entered physics with a remarkably coherent and articulate the-ory (suggested in Figure 5.2 ) that competed directly with Newtonian physics in instruction. McCloskeys theory theory included a strong parallel in con-tent to medieval scientists ideas, such as those of John Buridan and Galileo. In contrast to others, however, he did not say much about process-of-change similarities and, for example, did not refer in any depth to Kuhn or the phi-losophy of science. He took content parallels to ideas in the history of sci-ence as empirical facts, unrelated to theories of change

      After reading a little about the Theory Theory concept, we know that child's everyday knowledge is developed by using everyday cognitive ability that adults use. They develop theories in their mind which sometimes help them to think harder and come up with explanations. I also read that theory theory concept help children mainly in Science, as we as adults work on problems that we could not or did not solve as kids.What I mean is that science is always a work in progress and we keep working on discovering and experimenting....Is that true? Does someone agree with me?

    1. ocial Negotiation. " ... learning in most settings is a communal activity, a sharing of the culture" (Bruner, 1986, p. 127). Or, to paraphrase Vygotsky and situated cognition theorists, higher mental processes in humans develop through social interaction. Because constructivists hold to these beliefs about learning and thinking, they emphasize coll<1boration as a critical feature in the learning environment. Collaboration is not just a matter of asking stu-dents to work together in groups or to share their individual knowledge with one another. Rather, collaboration enables insights and solutions to arise synergistically (Brown ct al., 1989) that would not ~therwise come about.

      I believe this social setting has been there since the beginning of time. A classroom is full of students,with different understanding, capabilities and different social background. Im going to stick with the classroom example and state that you are introduced to new ideas and learn about different learning backgrounds and styles when you interact with other students. Learning is very much a big collaborative effort. Working on a group projects help us in learning and negotiations helps us to reach a common understanding.

  3. Sep 2016
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    1. All serious discussions oflearning would agree that the world “out there” matters tohow learning takes place, although there might be debate inhow to construe that world (Bereiter, 1994; Stanovich, 2000).Moreover, any postbehaviorist learning perspective includesin its description of the interactive nature of learning, the iter-ative coinfluences between current and past constructions orrepresentations. In this interactional mix, continual changeoccurs not only to learners, but to the context in which learn-ing is embedded as well. Learners are influenced by, and atthe same time push back, take from, change, control, andcreate the environment in which learning is situated.

      I believe Once you step in the real world and are out of the school education system you unlearn all the things you have been taught and start to learn what is expected from you and you dive in so deep that you forget that there is so much more out there to learn. Teachers in India, would never like to be questioned. They always expected a answer from the book or something that they were familiar with, India has a very competitive education system and if you score below the required grades then you are looked down upon. A kid is never asked- what have you learnt from this lesson? What is your opinion? They are groomed in a way that Rote memorization becomes a part of their system. Unlearning and starting all over again is something one needs to do. I'm in that category where I have never learnt the subjects I'm learning now but Im keeping an open mind and interacting with my fellow classmates who come from different backgrounds and who are of a different age group. Curiosity and Being open to Ideas gives you a very different perspective of what is out there.