Week 3 Blog Assignment

                           

                       How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts and Cultures

Hi, In this blog we will briefly look at the processes that support learning, their connection to Gura's discussion of "The Creative Learning Environment" and the ISTE standards for students.


This infographic describes the 3 major components of  the processes that support learning impacting curriculum design. It makes a connection of Gura's ideas of creativity and the ISTE standard of creative communicator leading to extension in learning (Kolb, 2017)


References

Gura, M. (2020). Fostering Student Creativity. EdTech Digest the State of the Arts, Creativity, and Technology 2020: A Guide for Educators and Parents

Kolb, L. (2017). Learning first, technology second : the educator’s guide to designing authentic lessons (First edition). International Society for Technology in Education.

Merriam-Webster. (1983). The Merriam-Webster Dictionary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merriam–     Webster's_Dictionary_of_English_Usage

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2018. How People

Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures. Washington, DC: The National

Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/24783.

Rivero, V. (2020). A Whole New Class of Art. EdTech Digest the State of the Arts, Creativity and Technology 2020: A Guide for Educators and Parents. p. 12-20

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology, National Educational Technology             Plan, Washington, DC, 2024.


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