Digital Badge # C

I just got done reading in chapter 3 and the biggest things that jumped out at me were the 4 learning theories, digital, media, and visual literacies, and our digital citizenships.

The first I would like to discuss would be the 4 learning theories which are: behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, and constructionism.  The behaviorism theory is we learn by how we act to things around us. One of the greatest experiments of behaviorism is Pavlov's dog.  Ivan Pavlov would ring a bell whenever it was time to feed his dogs. He discovered that once he would ring the bell his dogs would begin to salivate. To put it to an example using students, If you give your students rewards at the end of the week for doing their work, and continue to do it for a few weeks, the students would do their work, unprompted, because they expect an reward at the end of the week. Cognitivism is the theory that learning comes not from environment but internally, as in our memory, motivation, attention, ect. By reading this blog, you understand what I am saying because you have memorized these words and their meanings. So you are able to decipher this because of cognitivism learning. Constructivism is basically that we are able to interpret the world in our own way. So experiments and activities are key to this learning style. The last would be constructionism. This is essentially the same things as constructivism except for it adds that people learn while doing things in the real world. Which I can relate to because I am a very hard headed individual. I learn by trial and error. I have been out of high school for almost 10 years now. In between this time I have had 7 jobs, have gotten married and been to 2 different colleges. I did well in my first year of college. I went to what was then Edison Community College. I wanted to get out of South Florida so I went to North Florida to a college and I was an 19 year old free person. I rarely attend my classes and I ran out of money. I moved back down to southwest Florida and began my career as an uneducated person. I hated working the jobs that didn't envolve kids. These were jobs like CVS and JoAnn Fabrics. I hated working with money in fast paced situations. With working with kids and no education I worked with babies. I have been thrown up on, pooped on, and I have been in a room with 12 crying, sleepy, cranky infants. I knew that I couldn't do that for much longer. I had the opportunity to work with middle school students after school for three years. I enjoyed this although middle school was just as bad as the infant room with all of the hormones, emotions, drama, and (sometimes) blatant disrespect. I decided I wanted to be the boss of my classroom, and going back to school would be the only way to do it.

I also liked reading about digital, media, and visual literacy. I have learned that I am more visual literacy kind of person. I learn by videos, books, magazines, ect. My mother is an art teacher for an elementary school. She always has Prezi's for her kids. In her words "It's like Power Point but on crack." I plan on using things like Prezi for my classroom

The last thing I want to talk about it our digital citizenship. As citizens of this country, we have our rights. No one has the right to take away any of our rights. Digital citizenship is our digital rights. I am currently injured and because of my injury I had to step down from my job working with the middle school in the after school program. The good news is I have time to commit to my FOUR online courses this year. Even though some of it has been taken up by doctors appointments. All of this just to say, all of my classes we give responses to our classmates discussion post. They must be constructive and valuable information. We simply cannot write "You suck!" on the post (which is just mean but I guess they need to tell us this for a reason.) We need to be open to people's beliefs and rights and not big meanies (as my 7 year old cousin would say.)

Reference:
 Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.