Learning

Question 1

what is learning?

Answer 1

• no one definition
• the acquisition of skills, knowledge, values, beliefs, attitudes, and emotional reactions
• an enduring change in behavior or in the capacity to behave in a certain way resulting from practice or experience

Question 2

Ormrod’s definition of learning

Answer 2

a long-term change in mental representations or associations as a result of experience

Question 3

overall conclusion of learning

Answer 3

• involves change
• endures overtime
• occurs through experience

Question 4

signs of learning

Answer 4

• perform a new behavior
• respond differently to a stimulus
• change the frequency, speed, intensity, or complexity of existing behaviors

Question 5

when was there a large spike in presence of schools

Answer 5

-1820-1860
populations jumped
-rural life vs city life

Question 6

rural life

Answer 6

you had kids to have extra help on the farm

-self-suffienct life style

Question 7

city life

Answer 7

• movement of work out of home into city
• needed a place to put the kids when parents at work
• child labor laws in tact now so could not have children work
• schools started to form in abandoned buildings and houses

Question 8

industrial revolution

Answer 8

• industrial revolution was occurring which was improving the economy (much more ordered and better)
• maintained chaos in the factory so they applied this structure to schools

Question 9

industrialization of people

Answer 9

as society produced industry the people became industrialized as well 
-in school setting 
superintendent--> boss
teachers --> employees
students--> products 

-idea of conformity leads to control

Question 10

hidden curriculum

Answer 10

you show up on time, you sit in your seat, you do your homework, you listen to your teacher

Question 11

urban discipline

Answer 11

punctuality, order, regularity… leads to success

Question 12

uniform education and treatment

Answer 12

tests were so standardized that they were given by school board members and not teachers

Question 13

egg crate school

Answer 13

• K-12
• separate grades in separate rooms
• strict curriculum for each grade
• still the structure that is used in public schools

Question 14

John Dewey view on learning

Answer 14

learning is social and interactive

-there are these different kinds of schools but not interaction

Question 15

Main idea John Dewey

Answer 15

• saw so much waste in the schools
• the waste is on the children and how we are educating them
• they are not learning about useful daily life info
• focusing on isolation and not connection

Question 16

John Dewey connection to the community

Answer 16

students are not even connecting what they are learning

cooking -> ingredients -> soil, light, water -> gardens -> how do things grow -> climate effects

-connected learning: something that is actually valued outside of the school

Question 17

Dewey was most famous for…

Answer 17

• progressive education that emphasized the need to learn by doing
• child-centered approach that places the emphasis of learning on the needs and interests of the child
• inquiry based curriculum- wanting the child to be more critical, using their curiosity

Question 18

Ken Robinson

Answer 18

-economic and intellectual argument as to why people are wanting to change the public school systems