Learning Theories~

For the third class, we had been taught on the learning theories. There are three major LT, which are:
a) Behaviorism

b) Constructivism

a) Behaviorism is a worldview that assumes a learner is essentially passive, responding to environmental stimuli. The learner starts off as a clean slate and behavior is shaped through positive reinforcement or negative reinforcement. Both positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement increase the probability that the antecedent behavior will happen again. In contrast,punishment (both positive and negative) decreases the likelihood that the prior behavior will happen again. Positive indicates the application of a stimulus; Negative indicates the ignoring of a stimulus. learning occurs when students are just to follow the teacher's instruction and they are just focusing on the product, not the way the product was made. this is more likely a teacher -centered approach. 

b) constructivism can be define as, a philosophy of learning founded on the premise that, by reflecting on our experiences, we construct our own understanding of the world we live in. Each of us generates our own “rules” and “mental models,” which we use to make sense of our experiences. Learning, therefore, is simply the process of adjusting our mental models to accommodate new experiences. for that reason, there are lots of activities that require students to discover on their own on how something works or most likely to occur. Those activity could generate the discovery of new knowledge and its fit the meaning of constructivism. 

After we understand the meaning of those two learning theories, we were given a task to identify some website which used both of the learning theories. From there, we discovered that, the website that contain experiment in it, served the students with the constructivism learning approach whereas the website that given steps for students to follow, most likely applying the behaviourism learning theory.