Module Two: Cognitivism as a Learning Theory

After reading and reviewing the deliberations of Bill Kerr, Karl Kapp and Stephen Downs, they all have some interesting views of how learning theories plays a significant role how people learn. According to Bill Kerr's views there will be enormous promise and capability for all learners no matter what's their exceptionalities. Students learn in multiples ways. No one student learn the same, which leads to no one learning theory that will meet the needs of all learners. I believe that Bill Kerr's idea of how learning theories plays a vital role in structuring the ideas of theorists creating and expanding how we think and learn. After viewing Karl Kapp's statement he really stressed the importance of how collaboration plays a significant role in learning theories.

I agree that we can learn through cognitivism because it is a theory which attempts to answer how and why people learn by attributing the process to cognitive activity. Basically, the learner is viewed as an information processor . Cognitivism is recognized that much learning involves associations established through contiguity and repetition and  the importance of reinforcement, although it stress the role in providing feedback about the correctness of responses over its role as a motivator. However, even while accepting such behavioristic concepts, cognitive theorists view learning as involving the acquisition or reorganization of the cognitive structures through which humans process and store information.

References.

Kerr, B. (2007, January 1). _isms as filter, not blinker [Web log post]. Retrieved from http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2007/01/isms-as-filter-not-blinker.html

Kapp, K. (2007, January 2). Out and about: Discussion on educational schools of thought [Web log post]. Retrieved from http://www.kaplaneduneering.com/kappnotes/index.php/2007/01/out-and-about-discussion-on-educational/

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Belinda Van Norman
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