Cognitivism
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Cognitivism:
Cognitivism developed out of behaviorism as researchers began to focus on what was happening in the learner’s brain when they learn. Knowledge is an external, set thing, and students will learn this outside knowledge by repetition and practice, but the focus is more on what the learner does instead of what the teacher does. How the learners pay attention, how they encode the information, how they store it, and how they retrieve it are all important. Teacher’s think about how to make knowledge meaningful by relating new information to things the learners already know (Ertmer, 1993).
My thoughts:
Cognitivism helped me succeed in grad school, starting in the very first semester, when my instructor assigned a chapter of Make it Stick by Brown, Roediger and McDaniel. Thinking about how I learn instead of just shoving it in has changed the way I learn and the way I teach. I love Cognitivism as it has the same clear connections to teaching a cueing class that Behaviorism does, but the brain is not an un-knowable black box. I’ve added cognitivist principles to a number of classes already, and I’ve also assigned my grad students the same chapter in Make it Stick.
Brown, P. et al. (2014). Make it stick: the science of successful learning. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
Ertmer, P. A., & Newby, T. J. (2013). behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism: Comparing critical features from an instructional design perspective. Performance Improvement Quarterly, 26(2), 43-71. https://doi.org/10.1002/piq.21143
Cognitivism developed out of behaviorism as researchers began to focus on what was happening in the learner’s brain when they learn. Knowledge is an external, set thing, and students will learn this outside knowledge by repetition and practice, but the focus is more on what the learner does instead of what the teacher does. How the learners pay attention, how they encode the information, how they store it, and how they retrieve it are all important. Teacher’s think about how to make knowledge meaningful by relating new information to things the learners already know (Ertmer, 1993).
My thoughts:
Cognitivism helped me succeed in grad school, starting in the very first semester, when my instructor assigned a chapter of Make it Stick by Brown, Roediger and McDaniel. Thinking about how I learn instead of just shoving it in has changed the way I learn and the way I teach. I love Cognitivism as it has the same clear connections to teaching a cueing class that Behaviorism does, but the brain is not an un-knowable black box. I’ve added cognitivist principles to a number of classes already, and I’ve also assigned my grad students the same chapter in Make it Stick.
Brown, P. et al. (2014). Make it stick: the science of successful learning. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
Ertmer, P. A., & Newby, T. J. (2013). behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism: Comparing critical features from an instructional design perspective. Performance Improvement Quarterly, 26(2), 43-71. https://doi.org/10.1002/piq.21143
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