Module 1 How People Learn Best.

I do not have an overwhelming favorite theory on the way people learn, my personal beliefs tend to be a mixture of Cognitive ideas and Constructivism. Mostly, influenced by my individual learning style, I use to teach in a way that would intentionally bring my students attention to how math concepts built up from the previous topic. I would create lessons that would rarely use paper where the students would have to be engaged with movement, and socialize to get the best outcome. Students were given clear objectives, but encouraged to define things in a way that made sense to them. However, teaching in special education, I find that my students don’t have a real understanding or previous knowledge to start our growth. I tend to have better results with immediate rewards or consequences. I feel myself to be transitioning into a behaviorist. Learning theories were useful in a regular classroom because you had to make the best of a one room, paper, pencil system. In recent years technology, and the idea of educational technology, have given us an interactive television which has no bounds to what we view and interact with from anywhere in the world. I believe the purpose of learning theories in educational technology may be to translate ideas that work in a face-to-face environment into appropriate digital tools that will make them work even better on a more extravagant, Globally competitive, scale.