Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
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2. Theoretical Foundation
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2.1. Behaviorism theory of learning
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2.2. Cognitive theory of Learning
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2.3. Constructivist theory of learning
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3. Educational Technology and Theories
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4. Neuroscience
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4.1. How the Brain
Development
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4.2. Learning and memory Development
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4.3. Emotions Development
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5. Summary
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6. Practical Application & Evaluation
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7. Evaluations and Improvement of Khan Academy
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8. Conclusion
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9. Reference
1. Introduction:
In the past 50 years, Educational Technology increasingly
developed in whole over the world. The focus on Learning and educational
technology related theories, exploring and discussing up-to-date research and
online applications. The related theories are Behaviorism, Cognitivism, and
Constructivism. (Clark, 2001; Kozma, 2001). According to Bonk and Reynolds
(1997), "to promote higher-order thinking on the Web, online learning must
create challenging activities that enable learners to link new information to
old, acquire meaningful knowledge, and use their metacognitive abilities;
hence, it is the instructional strategy, not the technology, that influences
the quality of learning". Online learning is flexible to access from anywhere
and at anytime principally, (Cole, 2000) nonetheless, the online learning
resources must be calculated properly to occupy the learner and encourage
learning.
There are many definitions of online learning in the
literature that reflect the diversity of practice and associated technologies.
Carliner (1999) defines "online learning as educational material that is
presented on a computer, Khan (1997) defines online instruction as an
innovative approach for delivering instruction to a remote audience, using the
Web as the medium". However, online learning involves more than just the
presentation and delivery of the materials using the Web for the learner.
Online applications have been popular on the Web, and these shared with
streaming audio and video podcasts, such as the video sites for example
YouTube, are opening up different opportunities for educators. In present time
YouTube is the easiest way to reach learner.
Another one, Audio chat using Skype has become common, and web
conferencing is used for teaching. Messaging and peer-to-peer file sharing are
a others application. The potentials of using the new smart mobile technologies
are also explored along with blogs, RSS, wikis, learning objects, virtual
worlds, and digital games.
Extremely effective way of delivering course content is to
the students and supporting them in their studies through Online learning
environments (OLEs). Learning tools and communication facilities, OLEs can be
ideal constructivist online learning environments that allow students to become
more actively involved in developing their knowledge and considerations.
However, Students do not always use online environments in the ways designers
and tutors expect or desire because this is still a relatively new field of
study, (Beasley, N., & Smyth, K., 2004).
The Internet and the World Wide Web have made substantial
changes to almost all aspects of our lives ranging from a global economy,
personal, and professional networks to sources of info, news, and learning.
Many researchers and educators are interested in online learning to enhance and
improve student-learning outcomes while combating the reduction in resources,
particularly in education, (Farinella, Hobbs, & Weeks, 2000; Kim &
Bonk, 2006; Pape, 2010). Moreover, Online learning environment has been
increasing in demand for students from all walks of life. Some would say the
quick growth of online education environment and its potential in education, it
is imperative that researchers and educators examine the effectiveness of online
learning in educating students associated to traditional face-to-face learning.
In recent years, "Khan Academy has become one of the
most prominent pioneers of a new generation of digital online learning
organizations in K-12 education. Khan Academy had about 10 million unique users
per month as of February 2014, up from about 144,000 per month in early 2010.
Around 65% of users are in the United States. The sheer volume of the traffic,
as well as its rapid growth, indicates the worldwide hunger for quality online
instruction, especially in math, and the value that Khan Academy provides to
its users" (Murphy, R., Gallagher, L., Krumm, A. E., Mislevy, J., &
Hafter, A. (2014).
Above this reason, I tried to demonstrate of my whole Paper
through three parts. For the first part, I analyze theories of Learning and
their characteristics and some basic idea about Neuroscience, how is a brain,
Memory and Emotion Development of human special children? In the part second, I
tried to focus on how to make an online learning environment through online
application (e.g. Khan Academy). At the end, I try to attention on How to
improve an online learning environment. Finally, I summarized over all idea
about online learning environment and application.
2. Theoretical foundation:
"Learning theory is a body of research that attempts to
describe, explain, and predict how learning occurs" (Smith & Ragan,
1993). Learning theories are a prepared set of principles explanation how
individuals acquire, retain, and recall knowledge. We can better understand how
learning occurs, by studying and knowing the different learning theories. The
principles of the theories can be used as guidelines to help selected
instructional tools, techniques, and strategies that promote learning.
The main learning theories are:
● Behaviorism
● Cognitivism
● Constructivism
Analyzed are few theories, explaining learning and
significance of reflection. The research dedicated to the understanding of the
meaning of learning was first recognized in the behavioristic and cognitive
theories that were the foundation for the development of other theories and
approaches. Nowadays, there are many of them. Over the past century many
theories were created, yet to this day there is no agreement which of them
should be accredited as domain ones. In this part, I will discuss a few of the
most popular learning theories. Even though most of them came from studying
learning in children and are oriented to their cognitive characteristics.
2.1. Behaviorism theory of learning:
In the twentieth century, behaviorism was a school of
psychology. Having its main focus on the behavior of animals and humans, and is
greatly involved in creating the methods of predicting and controlling the
human behavior. The Russian scientist Pavlov and American scientists Thorndike
and Watson influenced the expansion of behaviorism. "A human being is
considered by far the most advanced of animals, whose behavior, although more
complicated, is essentially no different from his animal "relatives",
Furst (1998, p. 20).
As a scientific study of behavior and explains learning as a
system of behavioral responses to physical stimuli. Behaviorism is the
principle that regards psychology. Psychologists are working to the effect of
reinforcement, practice, and external motivation on a network of associations
and learned behaviors that are the theory of learning. Educators using such a
"behaviorist framework pre-plan a curriculum by breaking a content area
into assumed component parts "skills'' and then sequencing these parts
into a hierarchy ranging from simple to more complex, (Gagne, 965; Bloom,
1956).
Additional, "learners are viewed as passive, in need of
external motivation, and affected by reinforcement" (Skinner, 1953); thus,
educators spend their time developing a sequenced, well-structured curriculum
and determining how they will assess, motivate, reinforce, and evaluate the
learner. The learner is simply tested to see where their falls on the
curriculum continuum and then expected to progress in a linear, quantitative
fashion as long as clear communication and appropriate motivation, practice,
and reinforcement are provided. Measuring observable outcomes behaviors on
predetermined tasks assess progress by learners. Although few schools today use
the mastery learning model rigidly, much of the prevalent traditional
educational practice still in place stems from this behaviorist psychology.
"Behaviorist theory may have implications for changing behavior, but it
offers little in the way of explaining cognitive change a structural change in
understanding. The mastery learning model (Bloom, 1976) is a case in point.
This model makes the assumption that whole can be broken into parts, that
skills can be broken into sub-skills, and that these skills can be sequenced in
a "learning line."
This theory states that the only way to understand the human
being is to study his/her behavior the hope of getting psychological
information. Having said that, they emphasized that it is vital for psychologists
to study the activity of organs in the human body nerves, muscles, glands, in
order to get objective information on human behavior. This means that in order
to prove the mental activity, the objective physical phenomenon has to be used,
the one that can be proven. However, behaviorists do not reject the mental
activity completely by excerpting its fixated appearances thinking, feeling,
learning, but rather they argue that these appearances are defined by
behaviors. When characterizing behaviorism, Morshead (1995) marks that:
● Human thinking is talking to
oneself. It is very common among children. They talk to themselves whatever the
situation is. Then, we learn to control ourselves by speaking silently. If we
were to look closer, we would see that we are moving our mouths or language.
Influence generated language is merged with thinking, that is, thinking is
understood in the same way as the internal language.
● Human thought is understood as
neurological happenings, biologically generated sensations of the nervous
system. This is the central physiological response, that occurs because of the
outside stimuli through various feelings. With the help of receptor, this
stimulus is transferred to the central nervous system that then, through the
limbic system, reaches the cerebral cortex, in which the stimuli are understood
as reactions.
● Skinner's experiments with animals
had the biggest impact in revealing the meaning behind learning. He studied
ways to create an effective learning environment, which would form the right
behavior of the student and the appropriate response in which he would be
satisfied.
According to behaviorists, the basis of learning is the
based on the foundation of stimuli and result. The stimuli can be a teacher's
smile, question, attention, the reply the aspiration to answer, and a raised
hand. A motivation causes a reaction and if it is repeated enough times, it
could become automatic, the student can swiftly learn how learners are thought
to react. It is supposed, that by interesting the student in several forms the
quality of learning would growth. B. F. Skinner (1904-1990) is credited with
the improvement of the operant training paradigm. Comparable to helpful
conditioning, operant habituation requires that an organism function on the
situation achieve a goal. A behavior is learned as a function of the
consequences of the behavior, according to a timetable of punishment. Learning
is influenced according to the schedules of reinforcement in the operant
paradigm. Skinner tested the operant theory by carefully controlling the
environment to study behavior and the effects of reinforcement.
Giving to Skinner, operant conditioning has two laws. The
first is the law of conditioning. The second is the law of extinction.
Reinforcement consists of two types of events, those that are positive, which
means that when they have presented the probability of a behavior occurring is
increased and those that are negative, which means that when they have removed
the probability of a behavior occurring is increased. Punishment is clear as an
event that fails the tendency to make a reply. Punishment could contain giving
an aversive stimulus or it could involve removing approach to a positive
stimulus. Nevertheless, Skinner acknowledged the role of thought. He maintained
a theory of learning that was concerned with the stimulus of the environment
was suitable. Like Pavlov and Thorndike, Skinner's first effort was primarily
conducted with nonhuman animals, but the principles of operant conditioning can
be applied to humans as well, therapy and education are widely used in
behavior.
The main flaw of behavioristic theories is the human
thought. The supporters of this theory state that feelings and results are a
form of behavior, and the changes in behavior and its constancy are clarified
based on outer observations. In this way, the student becomes a passive
receiver and an object, which does not take responsibility for what and how he
learns. Stoll, Fink (1996) stressed that "implementation of behavioral theories
did not bring the success as promised in improving the quality of
learning", that is the reason why the attention was directed another way
in search of the meaning of learning.
2.2. Cognitive theory of Learning:
"In the late 1950's, Psychologists and educators began
to the new complex cognitive methods such as thinking, problem-solving,
language, concept formation and information processing" (Ertmer, P. A.,
& Newby, T. J. 1993). This theory draws attentiveness to qualitative
thinking and learning Features. Cognitive psychological studies, how knowledge
is learned and how information from the environment is merged into our memory.
Learning is a reception of visual and vocal information that is incorporated
into the short-term memory and passed to the long-term memory. It has to be
meaningful for learning of occurs. Developmental changes, which happen in the
early stages of life, are the ability for children of adapt, organizational
skills, behavior effectiveness furthermore difficulty. Both, maturation and the
environment, influence the changes in learning. It is hard to say that these
factors affect it more. There are, however, a few universal philosophies.
The information-processing model used in cognitive
psychology states, that a person is an active, goal-oriented information
receiver, processor, and creator. The act of information processing is
highlighted more than the outcome. Novak, Hanesian (1978), who researched the
methods of hierarchical organization of knowledge and how the human mind systematizes
ideas, explained, that in any given moment every one of us has a system of
knowledge of any subject, which they called "The Cognitive
Structure". This particular structure determines a student's ability to
analyze new topics and take information. The meaning of the new material
becomes clear only when it is incorporated into the already existing cognitive
structures formed in the past.
The Swiss psychologist Piaget (2001) created a model
describing, how people shape the world's awareness by gathering and processing
information. "According to Piaget, some ways of thinking, which seem
simple to an adult, are not so simple to a child. Sometimes a child can be
taught new concepts based on the knowledge he/she already possesses, but other
times it has no sense because the child is simply not ready to grasp the
concept". In his theory, Piaget makes a supposition that is in constant
search for the meaning of every aspect to our lives. How is doing it? The
psychologist identifies four factors:
● Biological maturation,
● Activity,
● Social experience,
● And balance,
The first one leads to the organization, combination of
thoughts and behavior, management, reconstruction, and the formation of new
combinations of fully coherent systems; the second one is related to the
adaptation to the environment. Every step is organized. According to Piaget,
thoughts and actions are formed in the human Mind, where they become active
during reasoning. When the human thought processes become more organized, the
thought and action system based on thinking and adaptation becomes more active.
Piaget believed, that from the moment of birth, a human being tries to adapt to
his/her environment, attempting to make it as comfortable as possible. This
process is called adaptation. Besides that, a human being not only seeks to
adapt to a certain environment, but he is also influenced by various social
conditions. Therefore adaptation consists of two processes:
Assimilation can be seen as trying to understand something
and adjusting it to the body's structures, or to the knowledge acquired from
the environment. According to Piaget, Accommodation occurs, when a person has
to change the existing schemes in response to the environment (some new
situation). However, there are situations, when a person uses neither
assimilation nor accommodation. When he/she encounters something completely
unknown, he/she simply ignores it. Piaget says assimilation and accommodation
can be understood as a complex equilibrium process. In his theory, thinking
changes take places during the equilibrium, typically in this way: the
equilibrium exists, if we can apply a scheme to a situation. Some schemes do
not give the satisfactory results that we need, in that case, the equilibrium
does not exist and we feel uncomfortable. This leads us to seek for a solution
through assimilation and accommodation changing and perfecting our thinking in
the process.
Giving to Žukauskienė (1996), the development of
understanding gains momentum because, in the process of balance-restoration,
intelligence improves. The adaptation (assimilation and accommodation) process
is characterized by a certain long-term effect on the cognitive structures,
because, depending on experience, they are constantly changing. When experience
is gained, the cognitive structures change, moving through four developmental
stages.
Piaget considered that the stages of cognitive development
could be viewed as the stages of mental development, having in mind, that
intelligence is the center of mental development. All the other features in the
stages of personality development depend on intelligence and are also
influenced by it. The four major cognitive development stages distinguished by
Piaget (2001) are introduced in more detail in the section dedicated to
cognitive development. In his search for balance between knowing and new insight,
human skills are discussed. The balance remains when learners can manage a new
situation in the already existing conditions. If they cannot the balance can be
restored in a series of steps. The balance is lost, when there are new events
that do not fit what is already known. Bruner's work is important in attempting
to discover the ways, in which the child begins to perceive the world. The
author considered language as of the utmost importance.
Cognitive stages:
● Stage one (action stage): During
this stage, the child understands the environment through acting.
● Stage two (image stage): it is
common in preschool and among younger school-aged children. At this stage, the
information is stored in images.
● Stage three (symbol stage): middle
and high school students cross into this stage. The thoughts become more
abstract, flexible, and unrelated to specific images. Language, logic, and
mathematics come into play.
Comparable ideas also stated by the Russian psychologist
Vygotsky (1978), He argued, that cognitive development is very important for
the child's social environment. Vygotsky saw human cultural interactions as the
origins of cognitive development. Language and communication play an important
role. Joint activities with the child‘s peers, other children, and adults
promote the development of cognitive skills. Conferring to Vygotsky, adults
need to determine, what is the current level of a child's development (how well
can he solve problems on his own without the help of adults) and what is the
level of his potential development.
The difference between these two levels of performance
Vygotsky calls the zone of proximal development, to which training must be
oriented. Teaching is useful only if it is ahead of development. The
psychologist explained that in order for the child to develop properly, learner
needs to be constantly focused on more complex issues. Therefore, mental
development takes place only during training. Vygotsky believed, that a child
could learn a lot by reading and listening to the teacher's explanation. In
this way, the teacher's dominance is raised at the expense of the child's
active sector (ButkienÄ—, KepalaitÄ—, 1997; Gage, Berliner, 1994).
Piaget thought differently. In his view, cognitive processes
are more dependent on changes in the quality of the child's abilities, while
the environment and experience have an effect only when a child does something
and is active in the environment. None of the author's' opinions are to be
rejected. However, it is important to think how the two types of learning,
learning "discovery" and the direct instruction are balanced in the
learning process. In his work Piaget (2002) proved, that the student's ability
to process information is related to his level of learning. A baby has no knowledge
of competence required to gain important information but later, his
understanding matures and he becomes able to obtain that Information.
Vygotsky's (1978) work is also important because he
emphasizes the importance of the language and the communication as well as the
social environment. Joint activities with peers and adults promote the
cognitive development of the child. The famous "zone of proximal
development" emphasizes the difference between the current level of
cognitive development (what can be solved without the help of others) and the
potential level of development (when the help of others is needed). The
research of these authors' is important because it reveals how children think
and how their thinking changes during growth and maturation.
However, Morshead (1995) is concerned, that the cognitive
approach is subordinate to behaviorism. He provides two main critical
arguments. First of all, the cognitive approach unfairly targets the invisible
inner experience, rather than the external, observable things, making it a not
scientific form of psychology, i.e., attempting to explain, what the mind is
and how it works. Secondly, by focusing on such things as awareness, the
supporters of cognitive theory underestimate the fact, that the mind is a
product of brain activity and that in order to understand it, the brain, not
thoughts or ideas, should be studied. Despite the criticism, the works of
cognitive psychology created conditions for a more novel learning theory, the
Constructivist.
2.3. Constructivist theory of learning:
In 1990, psychologists and educators created to emphasize
the productive learning concept, highlighting the individual's vigorous role in
information handling during knowledge gaining. The main principle is
experience-based knowledge creation of constructivism theory this learner is
actively involved. Later, there is a guideline to create individual world
images based on knowledge (Brooks and Brooks, 1993; Brandt, 1998, Weatherley,
2000). This theory emphasizes the knowledge structure of the pupils. An
individual's actions and experience are the most vital thinking constructions
of those developed. A student shows their knowledge-based of their earlier
knowledge and information. Consequently, learning differs from the learning
environment, the nature of information, and previous knowledge. So, the core of
learning is dynamic information processing, organization, and modification.
Constructivists mark learned knowledge and considerate as a
central activity, not as the information to the outside of the world. The human
mind perceives the world from its own experience, but not from the objective
reality. From this, a conclusion can be drawn that what we hear, see, and feel
is not the reality of the outside world. Knowledge is raised on the basis of
interpersonal motion and information that reaches us from the outside world.
Learning depends on many distinctive factors, the most meaningful of them are:
a) The knowledge, students already possess and previous
experience;
b) The nature of knowledge and information;
c) The context in which learning takes place.
Each learner's knowledge and experience are different that
is why learning needs different methods. Giving to constructivists, to create a
learning environment that is the vital part of our teacher. The students can
objectify previous understanding, and is active knowledge receivers. Social
communication is a learning reinforced between the teacher and students, and
between the students themselves. Hence, learning is the process of information
processing, construction, and the making of meaning, which the learner has to
engage in him/herself. The learner's understanding with the cognitive learning
theories orientation, concerning the individual as an active information
receiver and processor, and constructivism, which establishes the importance of
context to the action of learning, it is fundamental to look at the social
environment, because, according to Jarvis (2000, p. 23), "in a social
context, people, as social beings, acquire experience that is the beginning of
learning". Human development is a learning process in which individual
experience, personal history, and the current social situation determine, how
we feel actuality.
This awareness is reinforced by Andersson (1997); Lave,
Wenger (1991); Resnick, Levine, Teasley (1991). It is especially accentuated by
Jarvis (2000), who stresses, that learning cannot be detached from everyday
life and experience. He understands learning transforms into knowledge, skills,
attitudes, values, and beliefs. The practices of everyday life are continuously
given meaning, take place in time, space, the society, and interactive
relationships. Jarvis believes, that "learning is a process which gives
meaning to life experiences or seeks to understand them" (p. 126).
Nonetheless, that is not partial only to a reaction of experiences, it goals to
obtain the new forms of knowing skills and attitudes.
While learning can be accidental, nowadays a strong
agreement has been reached, that effective and meaningful learning happens
only. The purpose of learning and the technique of achieving are understood
clearly. It is natural to assume that effective learning also requires learning
objectives that are the learners' advance themselves. Learning is linked off
the context and the environment. It takes place in the material social
environment that knowledge is the outcome of the participation and certain
action. That means the effective learning is an activity joining mind, body,
environment, and an environment.
The process of cultural assimilation is impossible without
the participation to the learner. It is highlighted that learning can be
assumed only in a social context. Therefore, Social relationships are a very
knowing part of the process of learning. After analyzing various interactions
we found out that the relationship between the teacher and student in the study
process is the sharing of thoughts, ideas, and feelings. By enriching the
learners' communication is a vital part of the personal improvement to
intellect development. Social learning is an important aspect of constructivism
theory, but it is still more emphasized by the supporters of collaborative
learning.
3. Educational Technology and Theories:
For online learning used terms e-learning, Internet
learning, network learning, virtual learning, computer assisted learning,
web-based learning, and distance learning, that types of technology learner
uses to interact with their instructor and other learners. The main reflection
of online learning is the multiplicity of practice and connected technology.
Carliner (1999) describes online learning education material is obtainable on a
computer. Khan (1997) explains online instruction as an innovative approach to
distributing tutoring to a whole world, operating the Web as the medium.
However, online learning includes more than just the demonstration and transfer
of the resources using the Web. As a result, the author defines online learning
as "the use of the Internet to access learning materials; to interact with
the content, instructor, and other learners; and to obtain support during the
learning process, in order to acquire knowledge, to construct personal meaning,
and to grow from the learning experience" (Ally, M., 2002).
For learners, online learning knows no time districts, and a
location is not an issue. In asynchronous online learning, learners using the
online resources at any time, while online learning allows the time
collaboration between students and the instructor. Using the Internet to access
the latest and relevant learning tools of learners, and can interconnect with
professionals in which field they are studying. Learners can complete an online
course while working in the profession and can contextualize the studying. The
instructor can also do at any time and from anyplace. It is easier to direct
contract with others to appropriate knowledge based on their necessities.
Since the 20th century, there are some of the key
educational theories, such as Behaviorism, Cognitivism, and Constructivism has
been broadly implemented in education, greatly linked to the development and
utilization of the educational technology. Ivan Pavlov (1949-1936), Russian
biologist and psychologist, innovated behaviorism, Edward Thorndike
(1874-1949), American educator and psychologist of Columbia University and
Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904-1990), one of the founders of American new
behaviorism, further developed the behavior theory.
External motivation inspirations learning behavior, prizes
and punishment can modification knowledge performance. Behaviorism has
importantly stimulate and implemented in programmatic tutoring. Moreover,
Behaviorism has strongly promoted and broadly applied in
computing-assisted-instruction and the improvement of educational technology
that confirmed by researchers and scholars. Initial computer knowledge methods
were designed based on a behaviorist methodology of learning. "The
behaviorist school of thought, influenced by Thorndike (1913), Pavlov (1927),
and Skinner (1974), postulates that learning is a change in observable behavior
caused by external stimuli in the environment (Skinner, 1974)".
Behaviorists' accusation that it is the visible behavior that indicates whether
and not what is going on in the student's head. And, Some educators argued that
not all knowledge is observable and that there is more of learning than a
change in behavior. As a consequence, there was a change away from behaviorism
to cognitive learning theories.
Cognitive theory concerns human brain's' thinking process.
Cognitivists consider that a human being possesses fundamental modes to
receiving, processing, and strong information at distinctive cognitive
development stages, advocate the study of people's cognitive progress processes
and models, and design different instructional programs based on one's
cognitive development needs at different developing stages. This theory
characterized through Jane Piaget (1898-1980). In learning, the cognitive
developmental theory is to mature students' competencies to creative
thoughtful, the information analyzing and problem-solving through
computer-assisted education. Learning involves the used memory, stimulus, and
thought, and that consideration plays an important part of learning. They see
studying as an internal process depends on the processing ability of the
learner, the amount of strength used during the learning process, the depth of
the processing (Craik & Lockhart, 1972; Craik & Tulving, 1975), and the
learner's existing knowledge structure (Ausubel, 1968).
The main finding of this Constructivist theory is learners
learn by doing. Constructivist theory is emphasized one's learning initiative,
and social and situational learning experiences. John Dewey (1859-1952),
explain that practice is the groundwork of learning, and without learning, the
student cannot get their goals. And also he believed that develop their
knowledge for practice and instructional design would respect students'
psychological development needs. Moreover, Earlier Soviet psychologists
Vygotsky, constructivist theory were emphasizes social and cultural
backgrounds. He believed human's development is of culture. The constructivist
theory reflected on the growth and application of educational technology.
Educational technology is mostly reflected on the educational games, multimedia
development and online connections. Recently, there has been a move to
constructivism. Constructivist theorists claim that learners learn through
observation, processing, and interpretation, and then personalize the
communication into personal information (Cooper, 1993; Wilson, 1997). Learners
learn best when they can contextualize.
"The information persists in the sensory store for less
than one second (Kalat, 2002); if it is not transferred to working memory
immediately, it is lost. Online instruction must use strategies to allow
learners to attend to the learning materials so that they can be transferred
from the senses to the sensory store and then to working memory, Ally, M.
(2004)". To working memory differs on the amount of attention that was
paid the incoming information. Cognitive structures make sense of the
knowledge. Consequently, creators must check to see the suitable existing
cognitive structure that is present to support the learner to access the
information. "The relevant cognitive structure is not present,
pre-instructional strategies, such as advance organizers, should be included as
part of the learning process (Ausubel, 1960)."
4. Neuroscience:
Brain investigation took many stimulating results and
influenced nearly most scientific disciplines of the life. But sometimes
neurosciences are dominating too much, the creation of new terms like
neuromarketing, neuroethics, neurophilosophy, neuro pedagogy, neuro didactics
and others, It is obvious and trivial, (Schachl, 2006) is very important for
teaching and learning. But the results of brain research essentially new
knowledge "old teacher's wisdom" I new clothes or "Old Wine in
New Tubes" Multisensory Approach, Learning by replication, Emotions,
Memory, Cross Subject Teaching and the current explanations by brain research. Now, I would like to show brain structures and
what they do by image ? After that, I tried to explain brain, memory and
emotional development that is related to neuroscience.
4.1. How the Brain Development:
In the earlier, scientists thought that brain's developments
were genetically and brain growing biologically. The outside of the world
shapes its development through skills that a child's senses vision, hearing,
smell, touch and taste absorb. For example: according to Brotherson, S. (2009).
The scent of the mother's skin (smell)
The father's voice (hearing)
Seeing a face or brightly colored toy (vision)
The feel of a hand gently caressing (touch)
Drinking milk (taste)
The five senses take the brain development. Early
experiences have a key impact on the actual design of the brain. Technological
advances have allowed scientists to see the brain how to working. What
scientists have found is that the brain continues to form after birth based on
experiences. An infant's the mind for learning, but it needs early experiences
of the brain that enable learning. In detail, research now shows that many
thought to be fixed at birth is actually dependent on a sequence to experiences
combined with inheritance. Both of factors are important for the optimum
development of the human brain (Shonkoff & Phillips, 2000).
4.1.1. Early Brain Development:
The key part of the brain is nerve cell that called neurons.
Neurons are created and migrate from the several parts of the brain, due to the
fetal development. While neurons migrate, they also differentiate to govern
functions in the body in response to chemical signals (Perry, 2002). This
process of development occurs sequentially from the "bottom up," that
is, from areas of the brain controlling part is he the most aboriginal
functions of the body (emotion rate, conscious) and also that is the most
sophisticated functions (Perry, 2000a). The first areas of the brain to fully
develop are the brainstem and midbrain; they govern the bodily functions
necessary for life, called the autonomic purposes. The higher function of the
brain involved in adaptable emotions, language, and abstract thought grow
rapidly in the first 3 years of life.
4.1.2. The Growing Child's Brain:
Brain development is the process of creating connections
among the neurons, these connections are called synapses. The brain governing
everything like breathing and sleeping to thinking and feeling for well
organize the synapses by forming pathways. This is the core of postnatal brain
development, because at birth. The synapses govern their bodily functions such
as heart rate, breathing, eating, and sleeping. "The development of
synapses occurs at an astounding rate during a child's early years in response
to that child's experiences. The cerebral cortex of a healthy toddler may
create 2 million synapses per second" (Child Welfare Information Gateway,
Children's Bureau/ACYF, & United States of America, 2009). When children
are 2 years old, their brains have around 100 trillion synapses. Some of the synapses
are strengthened and remain integral. Synapse elimination system is one of the
normal parts of development, (Shonkoff & Phillips, 2000). However, when
children reach adolescence, about half of their synapses have been discarded,
leaving the number they will have for most of the rest of their lives.
Myelination is another important development that takes
place in the brain developing. The white fatty tissue is myelin that forms a
sheath to insulate mature brain cells, therefore ensuring a clear show of
neurotransmitters across synapses. "Neuronal growth processes, a child's
experiences affect the rate and growth of myelination, which continues into
young adulthood" (Shonkoff & Phillips, 2000). By the age of 3 years,
almost 90 percent of adult size has been reached a baby's brain. The brain
largely depends on receiving stimulation of growth, which spurs activity in
that region. This motivation provides the foundation for learning.
4.1.3. Adolescent Brain Development:
The mental capacity continues to grow and develop into young
adulthood to know using MRI techniques. Brain tissue, the intensity has been
exposed to outgrowth in adults as old as 32 (Lebel & Beaulieu, 2011). Right
before puberty, teen genius power experience a growth spurt that occurs mainly
in the frontal lobe, which is the area that governs provision, impulse control,
and reasoning. Due to the adolescent years, the head goes through a process of
pruning synapses somewhat like the baby and toddler's brain and also see again
in white matter and changes to neurotransmitter systems (Konrad, Firk, &
Uhlhaas, 2013). As the adolescent grows into young adulthood, the brain
develops more myelin to insulate the nerve fibers and amphetamine neural
processing, and this myelination occurs last in the frontal lobe. MRI
equivalence between the brains of stripling and the brains of young adults have
shown that most of the brain areas were similar that is, the youth brain had
touched maturity in the areas that govern such capabilities as speech and
sensory abilities.
The main difference was the immaturity to the teenage brain
of the frontal lobe and in the myelination of that area (National Institute of
Mental Health, 2001). Most of the adolescent act impulsively at times, using a
lower area of their brains their "gut reaction" because their frontal
lobes are not yet mature. Impulsive behavior, poor decisions, and increased
risk-taking are all part of the normal young knowledge.
4.2. Learning and memory Development:
"Memory is one of the most fundamental mental cognitive
processes. Neuroscientists study this process by using extremely diverse
strategies. Two different attacks aimed at understanding studying and memories
were introduced in this symposium. The first focuses on the roles played by
synaptic malleability especially in a long-term slump in the cerebellum in the
motor acquisition and its regulatory chemical mechanism. The second coming uses
an elegant chick-quail transplantation arrangement on defined Einstein regions
to study how neural populations interact in development to mannequin
behaviorally important neural circuits and to elucidate neurobiological
correlate of perceptual and motor predispositions" (Okano, H., Hirano, T.,
& Balaban, E., 2000).
Besides, neuroscientists believe that memory has must
require alterations to occur in the brain. The most popular candidate site for
retentiveness reposition is the synapse, where heart cells (neurons)
interconnect, Kandel, E. R. (1991). In other words, a change in the
transmission effectiveness at the synapse has been considered to be the cause
of memory. "A particular pattern of synaptic custom or stimulation called
the conditioning stimulation, is believed to induce synaptic plasticity.
Various questions remain to be answered, such as how synaptic plasticity is
induced and how synaptic plasticity is implicated in knowledge and memory. Many
studies concerning these issues are now in progress" (Okano, H., Hirano,
T., & Balaban, E., 2000).
In, the combined stimulation of two different synaptic
participations to a particular neuron depresses the transmission effectiveness
at a synapse. This sadness is persistent and is called long-term depression
(LTD), Ito, M., Sakurai, M., & Tongroach, P. (1982). The LTD in the cerebellum
has been reflected to be the cellular basis of motor learning. Hirano and
partners achieved in inducing cerebellar LTD in culture, Hirano, T. (1990).
Cellular and molecular studies of the introduction mechanism of LTD have been
performed with culture and slice organizations, and a number of molecules
concerned in the LTD mechanism have been acknowledged, Linden, D. J., &
Connor, J. A. (1995). A broadly used strategy for finding molecules implicated
in synaptic malleability has been to inhibit the plasticity via blocking the
function of a particular molecule. These findings have relied on tools such as
inhibitory drugs or on more specific molecular tools, such as antibodies.
Knowledge does not only involve changes in synaptic
effectiveness consequential from the convergence of several kinds of
simultaneous environmental stimulation. Earlier described their effort on
realistic models for instance (e.g.) song learning in birds, suggesting that
brain systems produce unlearned biases that also contribute in essential ways
to the learning process, Marler, P. (1984). "Such biases can appear in
both sensory and motor characteristics of learned behaviors. For example, one
taxonomic group of birds, the oscines or true songbirds, all learn to sing by
imitation. To produce biologically functional songs, they need to hear examples
of species songs during development, which they commit to memory" (Okano,
H., Hirano, T., & Balaban, E., 2000). They consequently perfect their song
performance by ear and are capable of using both memorized material as well as
songs of birds they can hear to produce an acceptable species song, Marler, P.
(1984).
4.3. Emotions Development:
Emotions are a major feature of human experience. A
fundamental question in the study of emotion is how best to describe the
fundamental structure of emotional knowledge, (Vytal, K., & Hamann, S.,
2010). The "prime time" for the emotional development of children is
birth to 12 years. Opposing aspects of emotional development such as awareness of
others, empathy, and trust, are important at distinctive times. For instance,
the real "prime time" for an emotional connection to be developed is
from birth to 18 months, when a teenage child is forming accessories with
critical caregivers. "Emotional knowledge is critical to life success. The
part of the brain that regulates emotion, the amygdala, is shaped early on by
experience and forms the brain's emotional wiring. Early nurturing is important
to learning empathy, happiness, hopefulness and resilience" (Brotherson,
S., 2009).
Over the early 20 years, the study has confirmed that
children's emotional are connected to their early abstract standing (Wentzel
& Asher, 1995). Children who have trouble paying consideration, following
directions, getting along with others, and monitoring negative emotions of
anger and distress do less well in school (Arnold et al., 1999; McClelland et
al., 2000). For many children, academic success in their first few years of
schooling performs to be built on a stable substance of children's emotional
and social skills (Ladd, Kochenderfer, & Coleman, 1997; O'Neil et al.,
1997). Especially, investigate on early schooling recommends that the
relationships that children make with peers and instructors are based on children's
capability of regulating emotions in simple versus antisocial ways and that
those relationships than work as a "source of provisions" (Ladd et
al., 1999, p. 1375). Psychologists locate that children who act in antisocial
ways are less likely to be known by classmates and teachers (Kupersmidt &
Coie, 1990; Shores & Wehby, 1999).
Learners participate less frequently of classroom activities
and do more poorly in school than their more emotionally confident, even after
one switch for the effects of children's preexisting cognitive skills and
family circumstances (Ladd et al., 1999). "One caveat is that children's
early academic skills and emotional adjustment may be bidirectionally related,
so that young children who struggle with early reading and learning difficulties
may grow increasingly frustrated and more disruptive (Arnold et al., 1999;
Hinshaw, 1992)". Although our thoughtful of the causal and give-and-take
influences of children's mental, language, and emotional competencies on later
academic success would greatly benefit from supplementary research, the
importance of social and emotional modification for children's success in early
academic circumstances is substantial and clear.
5. Summary:
Educational technology designing and learning policy creating
essential theoretical guidance, the development of a theory needs appropriate
support from the study (Maddux & Cummings, 2004). The educational
technology impacts the growth of education. However, educational technology is
only a tool. Using this tool depends on how instructors discuss students'
learning process. Abstract research pointed out that the strategy of optimizing
instruction and learning guided by the theory of behaviorism is linear stimulus
scholars of cognitivist adopt information processing systems to optimize the
instruction and learning and focus their studies on students' thoughtful
process. The instruction guided by constructivist theory entirely enhances
students' learning creativities by using educational technology in instruction.
In the 20th century, the instruction was reflected learning through radio,
film, and television of development and exercise software and software packages
in the 80s of the 20th century, (Ouyang, J. R., & Stanley, N., 2014).
Cognitivist was popular during the 60s and 80s in the 20th
century. It inspired the development of the personal computer system with the
replication of human brains' thinking process. The stimulus of constructivism
on the development of educational technology in schools was mainly in late 20th
century on the multimedia applications. Online interactive learning is emerging
mobilization and handheld electronic devices that provide an instructional
platform. And students can self-control learning contents, activities and
progress without limitations of time and space (Whelan, 2005).
Some researchers pointed out in the early 1980s that
educational technology did not only indicate to electronic devices, computers,
it also developed a branch of behavioral science. Educational technology
specialists consequently cannot see a computer as an electronic device, but
should link educational technology closely to the instruction and education.
"The instructional environment mainly supported by computing technology
has developed a new thinking of instruction and learning, and set new goals for
education. Educational artificial intelligence system is designed to integrate
the artificial intelligence projects into instructional environment, helping
students learn with computing simulated instruction and the support a variety
of learning theories" (Ouyang, J. R., & Stanley, N., 2014). Simulated
intelligence system in education has greatly impacted the growth and
application of educational technology. Research has shown that since 1990s
artificial intelligence in education has been developed to help people
understand how to apply educational artificial intelligence effectively in
instruction and learning from its original application of how to simulate
theory-guided classroom instruction and learning activities (Issroff &
Scanlon, 2002).
6. Practical Application & Evaluation:
Education has been importantly influenced by the Internet
and the World Wide Web. By using of these technological developments, learning
has become progressively available "online." In 2000, the dual-party,
congressional Web-Based Education Commission issued a report on the status of
web-based education in the United States (Web-Based Education Commission,
2000). This report designated the potential of the Internet for centering
learning around students and creating lifelong learning applied experience for all.
The Commission found that web-based resources such a media that learners can
access at anytime and anywhere, (e.g., pre-kindergarten through grade 12,
postsecondary, and corporate). Moreover, web-based learning attaches people and
can provide multiple pathways for erudition to suit the essentials to a diverse
group of learners. Additionally, A web-based education can make bad the gap
between those who have access to online learning and those who do not. The
Commission interested of the nation to together move the power of Internet
learning from potential to practice (Balanko, S. L., 2002). Now I am going to
explore how to teach through online education, Khan Academy as an example that
is practical education after that I will evaluate of khan academy.
6.1. Khan Academy:
Khan Academy, an online platform offering learning videos
and exercises unconcerned content areas, has become a worldwide famous tutoring
in a few years. That is free online learning resource and supports blended and
personalized learning. Khan Academy has interest amongst policy makers and
teachers about how to overcome the educational challenges around the world. "In
August of 2013, researchers traveled to Santiago, Chile to conduct research in
five schools where teachers are using Khan Academy. They found that the way
Khan Academy functions as a digital learning environment change the ways and
the degree to which students engage with and are engaged by the math content;
it also changes the way of teachers and students interact with each other. Even
though the use of Khan Academy may plant the seeds of deeper pedagogical
changes such as mastery learning or differentiated instruction, teachers did
not need to change their entire teaching model to start using it. Khan
Academy's straightforward approach of providing an endless bank of practice
exercises makes it an inviting and universally adaptable tool across different
types of teachers, classrooms, and countries" (Light, D., & Pierson,
E., 2014).
In February 2014, 200 countries were using Khan Academy,
however, 75% of users reside in the United States. Although the Khan Academy
brand are broadly acknowledged (Ani, 2013; León & Reinah, 2013), a study on
the website and its use in schools are sparse. "Much of what has been
written is from Khan Academy itself (Khan, 2012; Koeniger, 2013; Maxwell, 2012;
Schmitz & Perels, 2011), and is based on opinion (Izumi & Parisi, 2013;
León & Reinah, 2013) or expert review of the resources" (Ani, 2013;
Kronholz, 2012; Strauss, 2012). However, Khan Academy has classroom studies
that offer videos, one-page briefs, and longer reports describing how Khan
Academy is being used in classrooms around the planet. This is a way for
teacher and student experiences using the resources on the site. "Nine of
the platforms are schools in the US, two are from Europe (Ireland and Spain),
and the one showcase from Latin America is a first person account of a staff
developer's trip to Peru to train teachers on Khan Academy" (Light, D.,
& Pierson, E., 2014).
In the present time, Khan Academy has one of the digital
learning organizations in K-12 education for a new generation. Khan Academy had
around 10 million unique users per month as of February 2014. About 65% of
learners are in the United States. In Addition, the worldwide needs for quality
online instruction, particularly in math, and the value that Khan Academy
offers to its users. Khan Academy is an online learning platform started by an
earlier hedge fund manager, Salman Khan, with the stated task of "changing
education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone,
anywhere" (from the Khan Academy website:
https://www.khanacademy.org/about). The site upload over
5,000 online instructional videos in a selection of subject areas, an extensive
repository of math exercises, and real-time data and analysis features
(Koeniger, 2013).
Khans' teaching videos is a massive or vital to practices
and solve math problems. And also students can complete at their own pace. In
2013 alone, users worked on lots of problems. Khan Academy has an initial focus
on math, economics, and science to include other subjects such as art history
and entrepreneurship. Furthermore, Khan Academy is now working with a different
group of educational institutions. There are three of primary workings
examined: videos, exercises, and data of Khan Academy. These sections of the
site work together to create what Khan Academy calls a "personalized,
mastery-based, interactive and exploratory online learning environment"
(Koeniger, 2013, p. 7). Nevertheless, Khan Academy proposals in numerous
subjects, by far its most comprehensive topic area are mathematics. Take a look at one
of the reports on Khan Academy. These reports tell us vital statistics, achievements and
recent activities of khan Academy.
Khan Academy also recently introduced the new one that is
"coaching" structures developed with schools in mind but also
available to home users for informal instruction also and this material to
guide teachers, tutors and parents on how to use Khan Academy to face their
students' studying goals. So, Khans' offers dashboards allowing teachers and
students to monitor student improvement.
6.1.1. Videos:
Khans' videos are the main technique to teach the learners.
They organize the short videos by discipline. These short videos are considered
to be the main content transfer mechanism used to teach facts and processes via
a virtual blackboard and the voice of the tutor explaining the steps.
6.1.2. Math Exercises:
Although khan's' provide some workouts for students to
complete, They offer an apparently unlimited bank of online practice exercises
in mathematics. Pupils pick a talent and, as they finish each problem and get a
new problem. The math difficulties are vigorously generated and no two students
get the same problematic at the same time. Improvement is followed with check
marks (✔) or cross-outs (x). Khan Academy's practice bank offers
clues to help students. Users can grow step-by-step suggestions that reveal
each step of the progression allowing learners to realize on their own what
step of the procedure they were lost, but not just give the answer. Each page
also links to a video related to the skill they are performing, (Light, D.,
& Pierson, E., 2014).
6.1.3. Gamification and Data:
Students earn points and badges for doing practices and
watching videos of the entire site are gamified. "Access to real-time and
accumulated data allows students and their teachers to track the number of
videos watched, a number of exercises attempted, including which ones were
correct and which were incorrect, the amount of time spent on each exercise or
video, the wrong answers were given, and the number of hints used. Teachers can
track the progress of a group of students or an individual. And they can track
progress in the past or in real time. Data is color-coded so that coaches can
get a sense of progress quickly" (Light, D., & Pierson, E., 2014).
7. Evaluations and Improvement of Khan Academy:
Khan Academy is making as an online learning environment for
the learners. Online learning is one of
the ways to interacted teachers and students with each other. These outcomes
are similar what types of research use of Khan Academy in U.S. schools have located
(Bernatek et al., 2012; Murphy et al., 2014; Wilka & Cohen, 2013). Light,
D., & Pierson, E., 2014, observed that Khan Academy offered the opportunity
for learners to do more maths through having contact with more math practices.
Educational policy makers often talk about Khan Academy with great
opportunities for extremely transforming teaching and learning. Students can
get the concept of "flipping the classroom" where students receive
direct teaching via video outside the classroom. Moreover, they doing math in
the classroom with the instructor, (Murphy et al, 2014; Wilka & Cohen,
2013).
After studying the
resources, the teachers felt that Khan Academy was useful for improving the
technical skills but not necessarily at promoting deeper mathematics learning
or teaching difficult concepts, face-to-face teachers are still the best at
that. Expecting students from these low-income families to have home computers
and Internet access also means it is unrealistic to assign Khan Academy for
home use. Instead, these teachers dedicated one lesson period a week to using
Khan Academy in school computer labs. Teachers still provided direct
instruction in their classroom, but teachers were taking on new roles in the
labs. In addition, This changed how students engage with math in powerful ways.
Even though the use of Khan Academy may plant the seeds of
deeper pedagogical changes such as mastery learning or differentiated teaching,
the findings are that teachers do not need to change their entire teaching
model to start using this tool. Teachers assign exercises and students complete
them, the practice appears the same as in the days of workbooks. Khan Academy
does not require teachers to hold a complex of education for them to make it
useful and worthwhile. The observed teachers embedding Khan Academy resources
within their traditional instructional practices and creating a decidedly
non-traditional yet improved learning environment.
7.1. Hierarchical knowledge:
Observing at Khan's videos linked to Archimedes' principle,
the outline of the lessons is not matching with the reflection that humans
build knowledge hierarchically. Mostly, Khans' introduces ideas at the most
complex levels the next higher step. While it is true that the video is complex
to sequencing ideas, the work is done from the outlook of an expert. The
expert's perspective offers a global view of relevant concepts, the heuristics
to appreciate relationships between feelings, and the algorithms that
demonstration more precise understandings of those concepts. Since this vantage
point, the expert sees the educational challenge as undoing complex skills into
less complex skills. Therefore, it would make sense from an expert's point of
view to introduce solidity before reviewing Archimedes' principle, which
depends on density. This approach generates a sequence of abstractions relevant
to the expert, but not a sequence that the learner can essentially concept or
see as relevant.
Beginners typically meet a different challenge one of
building more complex understandings. Every graph, formula, drawing, and arrow
on Khan's Smartboard is a relevant representation. Nonetheless, he
unconsciously ignores the systems of practices that allow students to
coordinate or manage these representations into concepts like density and,
eventually, Archimedes' standard. The typical reflection is the "Knowledge
Map" in the area of math. The map is very important in understanding the
development of a discipline and individual learners. It is significant to note
that though the map is a hierarchical outline, the hierarchy emerges from the
perspectives of experts, not learners. Here the Researcher accusation something
more explicit "Atlas of Science Literacy is a two-volume collection of
conceptual strand maps that show how students' understanding of the ideas and
skills that lead to literacy in science, mathematics, and technology might
develop from kindergarten through 12th grade" (Schwartz, M., 2013).
To understanding might be broadly marked out through these
maps but this work was capable of authorities retrospectively replicating on
how they learned science. So Khan's do
not essentially characterize how learners really build that knowledge. In the
math Knowledge Map is connected a number of relevant topics, beginning with
addition and subtraction and ending with calculus. The knowledge map as well as
the Atlas of Science Literacy proposal a significant view on the development of
a discipline, but whether the maps lead students to reliable knowledge is not
obvious. Thus, they must be cautious with how they use these maps to build
involvements and calculations in the belief that students are re-creating the
same understanding as experts.
7.2. Sensorimotor improvement:
Many educators, Khan show his capability to coordinate
various images, which is similar to observing a master performer. Watching Khan
carry out a difficult performance of understanding in 15 minutes or less is
also much like looking a professional musician play a piece of comparable
period. In this matter, audience followers do not generally believe themselves
capable of repeating the same presentation afterward. Though, what is
interested in educational contexts is that after attending a lecture, teachers
and students often believe that the student should be capable of performing at
the same level as the teacher and with the same level of reliable
understanding. Even after learners use time on questions, algorithms, charts,
and graphs located on worksheets at the end of the chapter. Just practicing within
the representative level doesn't seem to support reliable understanding.
Khan Academy is working to develop accurate understanding
through intuitive practice, again in the area of math. The technology
surrounded in the efforts allows learners to experiment with the influence of
different variables that give rise of significant concepts. However, moving the
delivery of data on a two-dimensional graph, for instance, still, needs
focusing on managing representations and not yet how the representations attach
to touchable experiences. Authentic understanding requires a wide platform of
experiences, which in turn provides a foundation for the representations that
are the basis of student work in any school environment, virtual or real.
Without the benefit of this foundation, representations practiced in school are
reduced to borrowed ideas that are limited in scope and decay rapidly,
(Schwartz, M., 2013).
7.3. Feedback structure:
After completing lessons students receive marks and energy
points that are the extrinsic feedback of Khan Academy. Students can share with
their improvement through the lessons. Second, students can also ask questions
in a blog format, other members of the Academy can reply. And also students'
explain of their considerate to their peers. My point of view is that badges do
not contribute to developing an understanding of fluid dynamics. Thirdly,
developed as part of the math Knowledge Map at Khan Academy, is fixed in the
accessible exercise problems. The software is monitoring the student's
activities and guide learners. If the short-term goal is for students to get
well at solving quadratic balances, then they may never learn the problem for
which the quadratic balance was the solution in the first place. Emerging a
richer palette of sensorimotor practices that are closely linked to
representations still, needs to happen before instructors become too focused on
exercise students to solve quadratic equations.
Many tasks are already teachers find challenging to meet in
classrooms and, expectedly, much more stimulating in an online environment. One
possible solution is letting the video setup problems that students can execute
on their own and in turn allow them to justice the effect of their actions. In
turn, instructors began to play a more marginal role in providing guideline
because nature could offer immediate feedback. Given this kind of experience,
students were better able to adjust to circumstances where nature could not
accessible respond to their questions. In situations where nature cannot
provide a solution, up-to-date technology can collect student reactions and
allow them to compare and contrast solutions through graphs or tables that are
continually updated. Student guideline has the potential to encourage students to
take a deeper look at the original challenge.
7.4. General Improvement:
1. The key teaching technique is YouTube video of Khan
Academy. People watched them and found them useful. Currently, there are many
videos, with some backup exercises, and some people reflect this is the best
thing to happen of math's learning. After the study on khan academy, it has a
great inspiration. I believe that many of the mathematics Khan Academy videos
are honestly well taught. Nevertheless, the videos continue the mathematical
view of measurements, as they are a result of an archaic curriculum. Khan has
NO pedagogical content knowledge. This is plentifully clear in the approach and
faults. Here is some idea about pedagogical knowledge why it is important to
technological education.
Consistent with this positioned view to technology,
researchers have planned a framework telling teachers' understanding to the
complex interaction between technology and pedagogy (Koehler, Mishra, Hershey,
& Peruski, 2004; Mishra & Koehler). Shulman's (1986, 1987) built upon
work relating Pedagogical Content Knowledge, to highlight the importance of
Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) for understanding actual
instruction with technology. Shulman's have idea of Pedagogical Content
Knowledge (PCK) to the domain of technology (for instance see Hughes, 2005;
Keating & Evans, 2001; Margerum-Leys, & Marx, 2002). There are three
areas of knowledge: Content, Pedagogy, and Technology. "Content is the
subject matter that is to be learned. High school mathematics, undergraduate
poetry, 1st-grade literacy, and 5th-grade history are all examples of content
that are different from one another. Technology encompasses modern technologies
such as computers, the Internet, digital video, and more commonplace
technologies including overhead projectors, blackboards, and books. Pedagogy
describes the collected practices, processes, strategies, procedures, and
methods of teaching and learning" (Mishra, P., & Koehler, M. J.,
2006). It likewise comprises information about the aims of instruction,
assessment, and student learning.
So far as, helping teachers develop located and nuanced
understandings of the connection between pedagogy and technology. Though, this
is not a declaration that has to be acknowledged at face value. Whether or not
students develop Technological Pedagogical Knowledge is an experimental
question and it is a question that addressed in research. (Brown, 1992; Cobb,
Confrey, diSessa, Lehrer, & Schauble, 2003), aimed at helping us understand
teachers' development concerning rich uses of technology as instantaneously
helping teachers (K-12 teachers) develop their teaching with technology.
2. Engaging guys who have a desire for knowledge and a sense
of humor makes KA videos. Their teaching style and another everything is well
but not enough. Khan doesn't expend much work planning out what he is going to
do on the videos (I believe in the Time periodical feature he said 15 minutes
of Googling is his standard.) Several of his videos are unclear, off point, and
mistake prone. There are videos KA makes that, if KA just consumed some time of
planning before and editing after producing the video, could be shared in
length and doubled in instructional significance. Moreover, some of his videos
that never get caught except through viewers. And worst of all, most of the
videos I have seen from KA are purely about doing repetition procedure, and
very little of what makes a speech really useful. Providing the listener some
insight as to how an expert, which Khan surely is, makes results and solves
problems.
3. Although I appreciate their appeal to provide an
effective assessment technique, I do not appreciate their outward reluctance to
let learners learn however they want to learn. I desire they would make the
workouts and other interactive activities available to students as part of the
learning practice, trying to facilitate pattern similarly and making the
explicit content from the videos (or in a text) available in a more brief
style. That is one of many ways I think they can improve.
4.The videos qualities are pretty low. They are using
high-tech versions of a lecture where I can only see the above projector. The
difficulty with lectures is they are ad hoc. They need to be scripted with well
thought out to give the student time to attract the material in real time. Some
of the times the lecturer misspeaks and then has to back up and verbally
correct the fault. They should edit this stuff out. However, the best time to
edit is before it's recorded. In Addition,
they need better graphics and animation.
5. I feel that Khan Academy is more sizzle than steak. And
that is sad because I have high hopes of Khan but after realize of watching
from the sidelines, so it should be improved. They look to be clearing a
mediocre system.
6. The number of analyses from the point of view of a
‘coach'. (Interesting use of language here by the Khan Academy: why not teacher
or tutor or instructor? Is there a difference in Salman Khan's mind, and if so,
what is it?) The criticism is that the interface and steering for instructors
are poor, especially compared to the learner boundary. Nonetheless, with a
little more effort, the Khan Academy could be so much more. Delivering a
coherent route through the material would be a vast help. Joining to a ‘live'
coach would also be cooperative. I get the feeling that the Khan Academy are
more about supply and ‘push' of resources, rather than looking at the service
from both the learner's and the instructor's opinion.
8. Conclusion:
Behaviorist, cognitivist, and constructivist theories have
in different techniques to the design of online resources, and they will
develop learning resources for online learning. Behaviorist approaches can be
used to teach the facts (what), cognitivist plans are the principles and
processes (how), and constructivist approaches to teaching the real-life and
personal applications and contextual learning. Constructive learning is given
the prospect to their own meaning from the knowledge presented throughout the
online sessions. In addition, connective should be used to guide the
development of online learning. Globalization has also affected what students
learn and how they learn. Using of learning objects to promote the use of
online resources to meet the needs of individual learners and flexibility.
Online studying resources will be designed in clear segments. "The
integration of 3D interactive graphics and web technologies will allow
educators to develop highly interactive and realistic learning environments to
enhance online learning" (Chittaro & Ranon, 2007). Lastly, online
learning will be progressively diverse in response to different learning
cultures, styles, and motivations.
In the 21st century, is facing the challenges of recently
developed technologies. By with the progressively developed and innovated
computing technology and web technology.
However, researchers find that still lacking the theoretical research on
educational technology, especially, the research on the interaction between
human beings and computers. It still needs to continuous study in the research
of educational technology. Various educational technology theories have been
unique effect and great importance in specific technology areas, media design,
and educational technology applications in teaching and learning. Keeping
evolve researchers the educational technology is gradually developed. Without
appropriate guidance, educational technology design would become lost.
Moreover, without suitable theoretical guidance, teachers will not come out
creative thinking, (Ouyang, J. R., & Stanley, N., 2014).
In Addition, "Educational policy makers around the
globe often talk about Khan Academy with great expectations for deeply
transforming teaching and learning, with the concept of "flipping the
classroom" where students receive direct instruction via video outside the
classroom and then work with the teacher doing math in the classroom"
(Light, D., & Pierson, E., 2014). What I found through study in this developing
country context was something pretty different at least in the context of
mathematics. Comparable to other studies (Murphy et al, 2014; Wilka &
Cohen, 2013), in these Chilean schools, they found Khan Academy being used in
ways that develop learners' math skills, but it is not by flipping the
classroom.
Although, using of Khan Academy application may plant the
seeds of deeper pedagogical changes such as mastery learning or differentiated
instruction. Teachers assign practices and students complete them, the practice
performs the same as in the days of workbooks. Khan Academy does not require
instructors to hold a multifaceted of teaching for them to make it useful and
valuable. Finally, I found that Khan
Academy resources within their traditional instructional exercises and creating
yet developed the learning environment.
Author:
Jakir Hossin
Development Education Researcher for Third World Countries
Germany.
Date of Published: 30 March 2017
9.
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