IT Enters a New Learning Environment

It is most helpful to see useful models of school learning that is ideal to achieving instructional goals through preferred application of educational technology. These are the models of Meaningful Learning, Discovery Learning, Generative Learning and Constructivism.

        In these conceptual models, we shall see how effective teacher’s best interact with students in innovative learning activities, while integrating technology to the teaching-learning process.

Meaningful Learning

        If the traditional learning environment gives stress to rote learning and simple memorization, meaningful learning gives focus to new experience that is related to what the learner already knows. New experience departs from the learning of a sequence of words but gives attention to meaning. It assumes that:

• ·       Students already have some knowledge that is relevant to new learning
• ·       Students are willing to perform class work to find connections between what they already know and what they can learn.

In the learning process, the learner is encouraged to recognize relevant personal experiences. A reward structure is set so that the learner will have both interest and confidence, and this incentive system sets a positive environment to learning.

Discovery Learning

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

Generative Learning

        In generative learning, we have active learners who attend to learning events and generate meaning from this experience and draw inferences thereby creating a personal model or explanation to the new experience in the context of existing knowledge.

Constructivism

        In constructivism, the learner builds a personal understanding through appropriate learning activities and a good learning environment. The most accepted principles constructivism:

• ·       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.