Educational Technology Lecture 4

Learning 101
There exists a number of models and theories about
learning that is ideal in achieving instructional goals
through preferred application of EdTech.

These are :
 Meaningful Learning
 Discovery Learning
 Generative Learning
 Constructivism
Meaningful Learning
If the traditional learning environment gives stress to
rote learning and simple memorization, meaningful
learning gives focus to new experience that departs
from the learning of a sequence of words but gives
attention to meaning.
Meaningful Learning
It assumes that:

 Students already have prior knowledge that is relevant to

new learning.

 Students are willing to perform class work to find

connection between what they already know and what
they can learn.
Meaningful Learning
In the learning process, the learner is encouraged to
recognize relevant experiences. A reward structure is
set so that the learner will have both interest and
confidence.

In the classroom, hands-on activities are introduced so

as to simulate learning in everyday living.
Discovery Learning
This is differentiated from reception (meeting point of
meaningful and discovery learning) in which ideas are
presented to students in a well-organized way, such as
through detailed set of instructions to complete an
experiment.

Ever recalled why you are so nervous, yet very excited in

doing experiments? It is because of the idea that you
are about to discover something first hand.
Discovery Learning
In discovery learning, students perform tasks to
uncover what is to be learned. New ideas and new
decisions are generated in the learning process,
regardless of the need to move on and depart from the
structured lesson previously set.

In here, it is important that the students become

personally engaged and NOT subjected by the teacher.
Dimensions of Meaningful &
Discovery Learning
Notice the increase in Discovery from rote learning
 Math Drills
 Trial & Error puzzles
 Applying science lab formulas
 Lecture/textbook reading
 Simulations
 Adventure activities
 Data probing / research
 Art / music creation
Meaningful Learning

Art / music Creation

Scientific Research
Data probing

Adventure activities

Simulation

Lectures/textbook Reading

Apply science lab formulas

Math drills/practices Trial and Error puzzles

Rote Learning
RECEPTION Discovery Learning
Generative Learning
Here, we have active listeners who attend to learning
events and generate meaning from this experience and
draw inferences thereby creating a personal model of
explanation to the new experience in the context of
existing knowledge.

This is viewed as different from the simple process of

storing information. Motivation and responsibility
are crucial to this domain of learning.
Generative Learning
Examples are result driven; creativity and resiliency.

This gives emphasis to what can be done with the

pieces of information not only on access to them.
Constructivism
 Here, the learner builds a personal understanding
through appropriate learning activities and a good
learning environment. The most accepted
constructivism principles are:
 Learning consists in what a person can actively assemble
for himself and not what he can just ask from someone
else.
 Role of learning is to help the individual live to his
personal world.
Implications of Constructivism
 The learner is directly responsible for learning. He
creates personal understanding and transforms it into
knowledge.
 The context of meaningful learning consists in the
learner “connecting” his school activity with real life.
 The purpose of education is the acquiring of practical
and personal knowledge and not the abstract or trivial
truths.
Through this new conceptual models of learning, we
now know that :
 There are better ways to learn other than rote learning or
memorization
 Learning is for use not only in school but in real life.

Now we are prepared to see how these theories of learning

can be more specifically applied through the integration of
EdTech.