Fitting the Pieces Together

During this course of learning, my way of thinking in terms of learning how increased more on the process of how one will think and absorb the knowledge given and also how individuals learn. In the learning styles and theories, I will always look back and reflect on behaviorist and cognitive thoeries as they reflect what an individual thinks and thier actions in implementing learning skills. Reflecting back to Week 1 discussion, I used Richard Mayer and his two channels of learning which were audio and visual and for some of us we can learn through both without a problem. For others this is where the breakdown of instructional design really "kicks" in because instructors have to modify the way students learn as a whole to fit their individual needs so that each will learn on their levels but also gain the smae information as everyone else.
In my learning, Technology plays an important role especially through internet and libraries in giving me the resources I need to expand my ways in thinking.

CONNECTIVISM

http://mywebspiration.com/view/495613a20792

(FORGIVE ME, I WAS HAVING THE WORST TIME WITH JPEG AND BITMAP BUT FOR A CLEARER PICTURE MY WEBPAGE FOR THIS PROJECT IS BELOW THE MAP)

REFLECTIONS:

IN MY NETWORK OR CIRCLE AS SHOWN IN MY MAP, MAJORITY OF IT IS EITHER THROUGH FACEBOOK WHICH MANY INDIVIDUALS KNOW OF AND THE OTHER HALF DERIVES FROM MY SURROUNDINGS WHETHER PEERS, FAMILY, OR BROWSING THE WEB (POLITICAL GURU). AFTER I STARTED NETWORKING, IT BROUGHT A NEW SENSE OF THE WORD "SOCIAL" TO MY LIFE. I BECAME MORE INVOLVED WITH ORGANIZATIONS AND MEETING A VARIETY OF PEOPLE WHO WERE OF GREATER PROFESSIONS. NOW A DAYS....IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW SOMEONE TO GET SOMEWHERE AND NETWORKING IS YET A KEY TO THAT DOOR. IN LEARNING, USING THE INTERNET ESPECIALLY GOOGLE AND I.M. ON MY PHONE IS HOW I INTERACT BECAUSE ITS FAST AND TEXT MESSAGING HAS BECOME THE NEW PHONE CONVERSATION...QUICK AND EASY!

NOW WHEN IT COMES TIME TO GAIN KNOWLEDGE I LOVE GOOGLE.COM, ASK.COM, WIKIPEDIA (ENCYCLOPEDIA TO EVERYTHING) AND OF COURSE THE DAILY NEWS. CONNECTIVISM IS SUPPORTED BY MY NETWORK AND MANY OTHERS BECAUSE OF THE RESOURCES THAT ARE BEING USED AND GIVEN TO GAIN KNOWLEDGE AND HELPT TO INQUIRE THE MIND NOT ONLY OF YOUR OWN BUT OF OTHERS.

Instructional Design

Through this blog I must choose three additional links and incorporate my thoughts focusing on this week's lesson of the brain and learning.
The first design that caught my attention I have never seen this before and its ADDIE process:

Analyze - analyze learner characteristics, task to be learned, etc.
Design - develop learning objectives, choose an instructional approach
Develop - create instructional or training materials
Implement - deliver or distribute the instructional materials
Evaluate - make sure the materials achieved the desired goals

The second design is called the Carey made a significant contribution to the instructional design field by championing a systems view of instruction as opposed to viewing instruction as a sum of isolated parts. The model addresses instruction as an entire system, focusing on the interrelationship between context, content, learning and instruction. According to Dick and Carey, "Components such as the instructor, learners, materials, instructional activities, delivery system, and learning and performance environments interact with each other and work together to bring about the desired student learning outcomes"(Dick, Walter, Lou Carey, and James O. Carey (2005) [1978]. The Systematic Design of Instruction (6th ed.). Allyn & Bacon. pp. 1–12. ISBN 0205412742. http://books.google.com/?id=sYQCAAAACAAJ&dq=the+systematic+design+of+instruction.)

The last design was http://www.ericdigests.org/1999-1/tools.html which provided tools for automating instructional design. This site provided four types of tools through the ID process expert systems, advisory systems, information management systems, and electronic performance support systems. It then goes into details about each tool and how the AID tools focus on cognitive process.

Reference Cites
Piskurich, G. M. (2006). Rapid Instructional Design: Learning ID fast and right. (ADDIE PROCESS)


Learning theories also play an important role in the design of instructional materials. Theories such as behaviorism, constructivism, social learning and cognitivism help shape and define the outcome of instructional materials.

RESOURCES FOR YOUR BRAIN

HAVE YOU EVER NEEDED A MENTAL LIFT OR FORGETFULNESS NEVER FORGETS YOU...TAKE THE TIME TO REVIEW SOME OF THESE SITES AND ARTICLES THAT MAY HELP YOU IN THE LONGRUN TO IDENTIFY THE PROCESSES OF THE BRAIN. THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND BELOW:

The Brain Goes to School: Strengthening the Education-Neuroscience Connection by Daniel Asari, focuses on the brain processes and the relationship between neural processes and environmental input. This can be found on Walden U library in ERIC database.

(http://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=EJ813110&site=ehost-live&scope=site)

Derek Sankey, author of Guest Editorial: The Ethic of Forgetfulness, reflects on the ethical issues regarding the use of memory enhancing drugs. He argues that the drugs like Ampakines might have ill influence on education as students would invariably use them to sharpen their memory. He says that drug would not let people to forget but it has been proved that the ability to forget is critical for the functioning of brain. (http://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ehh&AN=48034994&site=ehost-live&scope=site).

Within these two articles, I found them interesting because as humans, some of us still rely on the surroundings in which we derive from to take control of our thinking and for many others we take the risk to enhance the brain with vitamins, all natural remedies, or even prescriptions without even researching the effects that it could possibly have on the brain which could lead to alot of our mental problems or increase in forgetfulness or extent of our memory and how much we can retain.

Finding the Right BLOG!

I haven't quite gotten use to the blogging but for the times that I have blogged it was very conventional. Blogging is a easier way to network and interact with people and it also keeps a thread of the conversations that take place.

SITES RECOMMENDED

Google Blog has it so that a person can upload and create and host their own website. From companies and even family event planning Google has made it so that you can have a private domain to interact and own your own site....for FREE!

LivingDot.com is also a blog site who host Fortune 500 companies and implement planning for businesses and your own personal planning to help place you in the right direction. This site also entails consulting if there are questions or concerns.

Livejournal.com is more of a creative blogging site kind of like a Youtube site where you can just post your creative mind and receive all feedback...just have fun!!!