For fellow SLISers preparing for or enrolled in the culminating project for the MLIS at SLIS/SJSU, known as LIBR 289, the e-portfolio class. Tag and bookmark your best sites and share.
Writer makes the point that all three learning theories can be used where relevant. One does not supercede the other, though they were conceived in this order: instructivism, constructivism, connectivism.
Behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism are the three broad learning theories most often utilized in the creation of instructional environments. These theories, however, were developed in a time when learning was not impacted through technology. Over the last twenty years, technology has reorganized how we live, how we communicate, and how we learn. Learning needs and theories that describe learning principles and processes, should be reflective of underlying social environments.
We do not expect our learner to travel down our same path as librarian or researcher but to become independent knowledge seekers. There is no right or wrong process of research, although there are many heuristics we can pass on. Applicable use of information requires that we see knowledge acquisition as amorphous and changing. As librarians, so we are too. Let us teach those who come to us our strengths, not our past.
