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Instructional Technology Poster

PEDAGOGICAL POTENTIALS OF BLOG

using blog has many benefit such as:   Increasing thinking skills, it makes students to be more creative,  posting pictures,  video skills will improve, It improve memory,using blog will improve your writing, it increase thinking skills. 

An advantage to blogging is that it is  easy to use  and easy to access, you just simply sign in and write what you want. Blogging is also a good way of meet new friends that are interested in the same topics .

however, despite all this advantages it also have some disadvantages

  A disadvantage with blogging is that you have little privacy as anyone who has a blog can that view your blog, moreover, it is  very hard to maintain, if they are not updated regularly  you will lose potential viewers. generally, one  have to be careful as people can gather   information   from anything you put on blog, so you have to be very careful before posting  images or personal information on your blog.

 

The three learning theories are as follows

Behaviorist learning theory

Constructive learning theory
Cognitive learning theory

Behavioral theory is a worldview that assumes that learners is essentially passive, responding to environmental stimuli.behaviorist believes that learner start off as a clean slate and behavior is shaped through positive or negative reinforcement.However, behaviorist focused on the idea that we learn from the environment. the goals is to reinforce desirable behaviors and eliminate unwanteed behaviors. moreover, behavioral theories demonstrated how conditioning can be used to learn new informations and new behaviors. the goals of behavioral theory is to focused on increasing people's involvement in positive reinforcement. 

Constructivist theory: Is to create new ideas, think outside the box, constructivism believed in schemata. they also believed that students should discover their own knowledge. Moreover, students must construct knowledge in their own minds. the essence of constructivist theory is is the idea that learners must individually discover and transform complex information if they are to make it their own (Anderson, Greeno, Reder, & Simon,2000; Waxman, Padron, & Arnold, 2001). constructivist theory sees learners as constantly checking new information against old rules and then revising rules when they are no longer work. in students-centered classroom the teacher becomes the "guide on the side" intead of "sage on the stage," helping students to discover their own meaning instead of lecturing and controlling all classroom activities (Weinberger & McCombs, 2001; Windschitl, 1999). 


  Cognitive theory: this theory is concerned with the thinking, inquiry and schemata which is the building block of knowledge. cognitive theory focuses on how people think, understand and know. they emphasis learning how people comprehend and represent outside world withing themselves and how our ways of thinking of the world influence our behavior. however, the main idea behind this theory is that an individual becomes what he thinks. Moreover, cognitive theory believed that one way to encourage and unlock new thought patterns is through meditation. learner construct their own knowledge from their experience, learner learn many things on their own without the intervention of an adults, learner are internally motivated to learn and do not expect any reward from an adults to motivate their learning.
source: faculty.psy.ohio.state.edu/opfer/lab/courses.