The document discusses several models and theories of learning that can be supported through educational technology (EdTech). It describes meaningful learning, discovery learning, generative learning, and constructivism. Meaningful learning focuses on making new experiences meaningful by connecting them to prior knowledge. Discovery learning involves students uncovering new ideas through personally engaging tasks rather than structured lessons. Generative learning emphasizes actively generating meaning and drawing inferences rather than just storing information. Constructivism involves students building their own understanding through learning activities and environments that help them connect lessons to real life. These learning theories show that learning is more than memorization and should prepare students for life outside of school.

1. Educational Technology Lecture 4

2. Learning 101
There exists a number of models and theories about
learning that is ideal in achieving instructional goals
through preferred application of EdTech.
These are :
 Meaningful Learning
 Discovery Learning
 Generative Learning
 Constructivism

3. Meaningful Learning
If the traditional learning environment gives stress to
rote learning and simple memorization, meaningful
learning gives focus to new experience that departs
from the learning of a sequence of words but gives
attention to meaning.

4. Meaningful Learning
It assumes that:
 Students already have prior knowledge that is relevant to
new learning.
 Students are willing to perform class work to find
connection between what they already know and what
they can learn.

5. Meaningful Learning
In the learning process, the learner is encouraged to
recognize relevant experiences. A reward structure is
set so that the learner will have both interest and
confidence.
In the classroom, hands-on activities are introduced so
as to simulate learning in everyday living.

6. Discovery Learning
This is differentiated from reception (meeting point of
meaningful and discovery learning) in which ideas are
presented to students in a well-organized way, such as
through detailed set of instructions to complete an
experiment.
Ever recalled why you are so nervous, yet very excited in
doing experiments? It is because of the idea that you
are about to discover something first hand.

7. Discovery Learning
In discovery learning, students perform tasks to
uncover what is to be learned. New ideas and new
decisions are generated in the learning process,
regardless of the need to move on and depart from the
structured lesson previously set.
In here, it is important that the students become
personally engaged and NOT subjected by the teacher.

8. Dimensions of Meaningful &
Discovery Learning
Notice the increase in Discovery from rote learning
 Math Drills
 Trial & Error puzzles
 Applying science lab formulas
 Lecture/textbook reading
 Simulations
 Adventure activities
 Data probing / research
 Art / music creation

9. Meaningful Learning
Art / music Creation
Scientific Research
Data probing
Adventure activities
Simulation
Lectures/textbook Reading
Apply science lab formulas
Math drills/practices Trial and Error puzzles
Rote Learning
RECEPTION Discovery Learning

10. Generative Learning
Here, we have active listeners who attend to learning
events and generate meaning from this experience and
draw inferences thereby creating a personal model of
explanation to the new experience in the context of
existing knowledge.
This is viewed as different from the simple process of
storing information. Motivation and responsibility
are crucial to this domain of learning.

11. Generative Learning
Examples are result driven; creativity and resiliency.
This gives emphasis to what can be done with the
pieces of information not only on access to them.

12. Constructivism
 Here, the learner builds a personal understanding
through appropriate learning activities and a good
learning environment. The most accepted
constructivism principles are:
 Learning consists in what a person can actively assemble
for himself and not what he can just ask from someone
else.
 Role of learning is to help the individual live to his
personal world.

13. Implications of Constructivism
 The learner is directly responsible for learning. He
creates personal understanding and transforms it into
knowledge.
 The context of meaningful learning consists in the
learner “connecting” his school activity with real life.
 The purpose of education is the acquiring of practical
and personal knowledge and not the abstract or trivial
truths.

14. Through this new conceptual models of learning, we
now know that :
 There are better ways to learn other than rote learning or
memorization
 Learning is for use not only in school but in real life.
Now we are prepared to see how these theories of learning
can be more specifically applied through the integration of
EdTech.