Brain Based Learning

It’s not what you know, it’s how you know…that you know it… (huh???)
What’s an educational technologist to do? Objectivism, constructivism, behaviorism, cognitivism, there are many isms that don’t seem to get along very well. Although each perspective seems to reflect at least some part of reality, there is little middle ground to reconcile all these varied theories. Reality either exists and is revealed to us as we learn, or there is no reality outside of what we think we know. Each theory seems to exclude the world view of the …

In an Educause article from 2008 Chris Dede, the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, proposes that there has been “A Seismic Shift in Epistemology” since the introduction of the collaborative, user generated online communities called Web 2.0.
Originally, websites were simply informational sites published by one user for readers to see and enjoy but not contribute to. In a new take on an old medium websites were books and papers published online instead of in print. With the introduction of web 2.0 …