Personal Learning Theory

This course was one of my favorites so far during my time at Walden. I gained so much insight into the addition of technology into the classroom. What caught me most was not only how and what technology we could use but how it truly could be used to better the learning environment. Students can be engaged in hands on learning, creating artifacts and by doing so they are gaining a greater ability to store the content in to long term memory.




My Personal Learning Theory states: I believe that all students in a classroom are capable of learning. However, each child in a given class is unique in terms of terms of background, beliefs, and experience and therefore all children do not learn best in the same way. Textbooks should be viewed as tools to help learning, but should not be used in isolation alone. Hands on, minds-on activities should be used to enrich the curriculum for any given subject, and cross-curriculum activities should be employed so that children who excel in one area can use that strength to enhance learning in another. Varying activities and assessments must be used throughout the course of the school year so that each of the multiple intelligences is touched upon, providing the opportunity for all students to succeed.



What we learned about the way students learn and the strategies that help to ensure this, only adds to the strong feeling I have that EVERY student can learn, even thou they each may learn best differently!! I look forward to gaining knowledge of more new techniques and strategies that help me to augment my personal learning theory!!