Q1: How do people learn?

Q1: How do people learn?

1. the student

   • learner's toolbox
     • schema/strategies
       • superblueberries: critical thinking skills
         • metacognition: thinking about your own thinking
           • "My strategy is..."
         • questioning
         • prior knowledge activation
         • visual imagery
       • based on principles of learning
         • If we can identify the schema Duke students use, then we can help other students learn the strategies we use.
           • elaboration
         • used to create theories
     • motivation
     • grit

2. (inaccurate) misconceptions

   • #1: teaching is telling, learning is remembering (rote memorization)
   • educational value of 2 truths and a lie
     • to help eliminate misconceptions
       • thinking about perceptions of Duke and Durham
         • Hayti: black neighborhood, freedpeople, segregation, NCCU
           • out of this came self-dependence
       • action research
     • class cohesion
     • elaboration

3. success

   • 1.content knowledge
     • info
     • facts
     • subject matter knowledge
   • 2.cognition
     • academic skills
       • word recog, work ethic, reading/math skills, lang
     • advanced critical thinking skills
       • superblueberries
     • self regulation skills
   • 3. character traits
   • Desired Student Learning Outcomes
     • Knowledge, Skills, Dispositions
       • self control and reasoning: the marshmallow test and delayed gratification
     • learning=change

4. psychologists

   • Bronfenbrenner's theory of multiple layers of environmental influence
     • family, community, state
   • Erikson's psychosocial stages of development
     • sort of like checkpoints, each with own conflict
     • need to encourage child decision making
     • encourage roleplay/makebelieve--perspective taking
     • child needs success
   • Vygotsky and scaffolding
   • Piaget: constructivism
     • children want to learn, will explore enviro
     • children try to construct meaning
     • want to reduce cognitive dissonance
       • disequilibrium: misunderstanding
   • Kohlberg 3 levels/6 stages of moral development
     • can be lifelong
     • challenge students on moral compass

5. what is educational psychology?

   • how people learn
   • how people teach
   • how to better learning