Assessment & Enculturation

Week 6 Theme: Assessment, Reflection, Participation The focus of this week was on assessment, but in thinking of assessment, I revisited some of my key assumptions regarding knowledge.  Understanding knowledge as something that occurs between people, makes me think that in some ways it is an act of perpetually attempting to reach consensus (notes 1447, […]

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A Brief Look at Learning Theories

Week 3 – Historical Influencers and Looking More Deeply at the Various Aspects of Online Learning The resounding idea for me this week is Bruner’s statement that “Knowledge is a process, not a product” (1966; qtd in Smith, 2002). I was unfamiliar with Bruner and his concept of a spiral curriculum until the readings this […]

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