Talk:Cognition and Instruction/Theories of Learning & Development

This chapter needs a new title. How about Origins of Cognitive Psychology? Nesbit (discuss • contribs) 15:24, 6 May 2016 (UTC) Agree. The name better matches the new content and the intent of this chapter.

2016-06-23 Thomas/Obaid: Content Considerations
Discussions around restructuring this chapter. Overarching goals:
 * set up the entire wikibook
 * provide historical framework of ed psych
 * non-monolithic philosophies

Big Ideas
 * Founding Period - Philosophers
 * Schools of thought. We are still discussing how this will be done. Rather than monolithic schools, e.g. Bahaviourism, we plan to discuss the ideas raised by specific thinkers.

2016-06-23 Thomas/Obaid: Graphic/Structure
Looking for specific graphics (or will created)


 * timelines of thought
 * do we care if have pictures of the thinkers? Is this helpful for building connections or simply seductive detail?
 * Need to make sure whatever goes in works both in HTML and the save-to-pdf mode.

The following represents our current thinking for the outline:== 2016-06-23 Thomas/Obaid: Outline ==

Overview: As per our conversation and your input, the focus of the first chapter is to set the stage for where we are at now. We will cover the historical context with enough depth for students to understand the following two big ideas: our understanding of educational psychology has developed over time; and, the big ideas (behaviourism, humanism, cognitive perspective) are not monolithic nor were the tenets of their respective perspectives wholly unique. We need to do this in such a way that provides the foundation for the rest of the book without drowning the reader with information is not germane to, or would distract focus from cognition and instruction.

Outline

1.	Introduction to Cognition and Instruction

This brief introduction seeks to give the framework and purpose for the entire book and as an introduction to the chapter. At the end of this chapter, readers should be set-up to begin the book. Included in this part will be:
 * Theory (definition in context of learning)
 * Learning and instruction (meaning and differentiation)
 * Theory and Practise (meaning and application in education)

2.	Development of Learning Theories: Theories in the Historical Context This section explores at a cursory level the concepts of rationalism vs empiricism as posited by Descartes and Locke.
 * Philosophical Origins of Learning Theory
 * Psychological Origins of Learning Theory
 * Structuralism
 * Functionalism leading to Pragmatism
 * Associationism

This section explores at a cursory level the foundational ideas that will ultimately lead us to behaviourism.
 * Behaviourism
 * John Watson
 * Edwin Guthrie
 * Thorndike: Connectionism
 * B. F. Skinner

This section explores behaviourism as influenced by a few major contributors, esp. Skinner. Behavioural theories and applications in education are developed more that earlier ideas. Dialogue around the big idea of behaviourism not being monolithic is opened. This section ends with examples of behaviourist-based instruction, such as programmed instruction.

Humanism (I might need to arm wrestle Teeba for this one.)
 * Carl Rogers
 * Abraham Maslow

This section explores the humanist philosophy of educational psychology, esp. Rogers and Maslow. Humanist theories and applications in education are explored both in terms of their contrast to behaviourist views but also, as you pointed out, as a conceptual foundation for self-determination theory. In keeping with the big ideas, we both compare and contrast behaviourism and humanism. This section ends with examples of educational implications of humanism.

PART II:

2016-06-30 Thomas/Obaid: Outline
Problems so far: how to get so much information down to 6000 words. We will create our draft in google docs so we can try to get our style similar. This will also allow us to co-edit for improving the final product One of the issues is examples. Decided to add example [placeholders] so we can work on these as our group improvement input. Video option still being researched. Cartoon--to show how little we know--has been commissioned.

2016-06-30 Thomas/Obaid: Outline
What about humour? Does this have a place in academic literature. Research says so. *


 * no citation available.

2016-06-30 Thomas/Obaid: Formatting
Need to find out how larger than single column graphics will work in print to PDF mode. Findings: Graphics seem to be always constrained to a single column when printed as PDF format.

At the bottom of the page, have a summary section: In this section you have learned. Should there be links to the sections where this was learned? Findings

Ordered list vs. H1, H2? Make sure we are consistent with the other chapters, and that whatever is used best facilitates with the wikibook, e.g. if H1, H2 is needed for the table of contents. Findings: When headings are used (H1, H2, H3), they show up as numbered in the TOC, different styles of font in the text, BUT as numbered lists in PDF version of the book.

Glossary: Should there be "a name" links back to where it was discussed?

2016-06-30 Thomas/Obaid: Citations
Avoid citations from textbooks.

PDF version made
I just made a pdf version of the whole book. Its not multicolumn, so the issue with the graphics described on "2016-06-30 Thomas/Obaid: Formatting" should be resolved. Please let me know if you want anything about the PDF version changed. Yours friendly cow shed worker Dirk Hünniger (discuss • contribs) 09:59, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

Thank you!
We also want to make a glossary from the text in alphabetical order. I thought we could do that using tags but can't seem to make it work. can you direct me to a resource?

Hi, ːindeed I can do that ːI did that for german book on statics see hereː https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Formelsammlung_Statistik/_Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung#Additionssatz ːif you look at the source you seeː ==  Additionssatz, so I just used a custom template as kind of tag. ːif you just add it to your book in all needed places the glossary will appear in the pdf see here https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Datei:Formelsammlung_Statistik.pdf in the end of the pdf page 61. --Dirk Hünniger (discuss • contribs) 16:57, 18 July 2016 (UTC)


 * I tried that. I don't think we have that template. I think we'll just do the manually created glossary for now. Thanks for your help though.

Hi,

you can just create that template here. It actually very easy to do so, but I want to leave to you to create it since you learn a bit about the wiki system in creating it. If you still want to do a manual glossary you could use links in the glossary to link to the sections in the book. In the PDF they will render as footnotes giving the section number and the page number. Yours --Dirk Hünniger (discuss • contribs) 18:33, 19 July 2016 (UTC)