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Comparison of
Instructional Modalities
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Learning Styles
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Broadcast
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Interactive
Learning |
| Professor Gerry
O'Connor, Suffolk County Community College |
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Broadcast
Learning
Passive
Mode
for Learner
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Interactive
Learning
Active
Mode for Learner
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Teacher
as transmitter
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Teacher
as facilitator/coach
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linear/
sequential
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Hypermedia
learning
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Instruction
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Construction/discovery
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Teacher-centered
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Learner-centered
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Absorbing
materials / information
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Learning
how to learn
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Limited
to school
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Lifelong
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One-size
fits all
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Customized
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School
and Formal Education as torture
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School
and Formal
Education
as fun
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| Traditional Versus
Constructivist Learning Methods |
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Traditional |
Constructivist |
| Knowledge |
Transmitted, external to
knower, objective, stable, fixed,
decontextualized |
Constructed,
emergent, situated in action or experience |
| Reality |
External to the knower |
Product of mind |
| Meaning |
Reflects external world |
Reflects perceptions and
understanding of experiences |
| Symbols |
Represents world |
Tools for constructing
reality |
| Learning |
Knowledge transmission,
reflecting what teacher knows,
well-structured, abstract-symbolic,
encoding-retention-retrieval, product-oriented |
Knowledge construction,
interpreting world, constructing meaning,
ill-structured, authentic-experiential,
articulation-reflection, process-oriented |
| Instruction |
Simplify
knowledge, abstract rules, basics first,
top-down, deductive, application of symbols,
(rules, principles) lecturing, tutoring,
instructor derived and controlled, individual,
competitive. |
Reflecting multiple
perspectives, increasing complexity,
diversity, bottom-up, inductive,
apprenticeship, modeling, coaching,
exploration, learner-generated |
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| Thanks to Professor Gerald O'Connor of SUNY-Suffolk
County Community College |
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