Engagement Activity 4: Blog reflection on wiki activity

I think all 4 learning theories were used in the Mobile Phones wiki because The  Behaviourist learning theory has its place where we are given information to learn and we learn it. There is no thought process that goes into it. There is no thinking outside of the square. It is like Edward De Bono's 6 Thinking Hats, we have previouse knowledge of this way of thinking and we do not have to learn it. The 6 thinking hats  is a process in which to gather information.
Cognitivism is how we mentally process information. Our sensory memory takes in information and we transfer that information to our working memory and the rest will disappear. We take in what information we want in chunks and store it in our long term memory, so for this wiki we have memory of information to use for our discussion.
Learning through Constructivism is learning through our own experiences by observing and participating in life we build our own knowledge (John Dewey). The wiki was set up with a question "Should mobile phones be used in the classroom" and I think we all have had life experiences and understanding of what that could mean for students.
The teacher has set up a great learning space for us to reflect and show our knowledge on a subject.
It is through Connectivism that we all work collaboratively through the wiki to share different opinions, ideas and knowledge. We have different experiences. We can agree or disagree. There is no right or wrong answer and there are many different ways of seeing the question through Edward De Bono's 6 Thinking Hats we can answer the question either through a positive, negative, critical, creative, intuitive, objective or a process approach.

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I had mainly a positive approach to the question, but there were some negative concerns that I  put up as well.  This way of learning was beneficial as I could see that people  have many varied ideas to the question. The issues will be when someone disagrees with someone else but that will be good healthy discussion. The drawbacks are that sometimes we do not like what people have to say and it can be very personal so when our opinions are out there for everyone to see it can be very confronting.  I think it would contribute to the  learning of my students because it would take them out of their comfort zone and give everyone a chance to have a say. The scaffolding worked well. It was clear and you could see how people participated and was easy to follow.