Activity 2.1

Pedagogies

Terry Anderson Identified 4 pedagogies: Behaviorist/Cognitive, Constructivist, Connectivist and Blended/Instructivist.

Behaviorist/Cognitive is more self focused learning and changing your views on how you learn and your behavior towards learning

Constructivist is learning in groups. It plays on the old saying "two heads are better than one"

Connectivist is learning using networks and other groups such as the community

Finally, the blended pedagogy changes to suit the situation. An example of this is the Instructivist where content is taught in a lecture. (would be to cater for large crowds of students)

An example of when i have used the Behaviorist/Cognitive theory is when I learnt the guitar. Its the way that I prefer to learn as I can go at my own pace and gather a deeper understanding of what I am learning rather than trying to keep up with the whole class.

An example of the constructivist theory is when I had to do a group project on investigating a problem at a local business. There are both positive and negative aspects of this theory, the positives being that you get a wide range of views on one subject and more people means there are more skill sets and this may enable work to be done faster. Negatives are: Clashing personalities and group-think.

An example of a blended/instructivist theory is when learning the marketing paper at E.I.T. there were a large number of students in that class so it was just a lecturer talking and us students taking notes the whole time. For me its a rather impersonal way of teaching.

E learning can be integrated for the Behaviourist through use of sites like E.I.T. Online where information is available all the time so the student can learn at their own pace. 

Forums and using Skype or similar software for group conferences can be a way that E earning can be integrated for the constructivist. 

For the connectivist, E learning can be integrated through the use of social media and group pages on there. 

For Blended/Instructivist, things such as power point,projectors mobile phones can be ways E learning can be integrated.