Chapter 2.1 How do People Learn?

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Learning with Technology

How can we use cutting-edge technology in training?

How can we leverage technologies that younger generations have grown up using?

What are the best technologies for e-learning?

How can we adapt technology to aid human learning?

What is learning and instruction?

Learning

There are three main elements in learning:

Learning involves change

The change is in what the learner knows

The change is caused by the learner's experience

Instruction

The training professional's manipulation of the learner's experiences to foster learning (Mayer, 2011).

Instruction is something that the instructional professional does not affect the learner's experience.

Goal of manipulation is to cause a change in what the learner knows

Three Metaphors for Learning

strengthening correct responses and weakening incorrect responses

involves adding new information to your memory

making sense of the presented material by attending to relevant information, mentally organizing it and connecting with what you already know.