Arun-Kumar Tripathi (tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de)
Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:54:09 +0100 (MET)
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:54:09 +0100 (MET) From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de> Subject: Reply: Learning Strategies Then and Now: Same or Different?
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Greetings IFETS-Forum Members,
and Dear Prof. Merrill,
Thank you for your comments regarding my response of Lumsdaine
paper..I'll be also looking into your reference paper that you
mentioned in your last to IFETS-FORUM..I'm just warming up into the
ongoing discussions..because here the temperature is 10 degree below 0, in
Dortmund..Cool!!
Thanks to Prof. David Merrill for writing a splendid paper..I also read
so-far the comments regarding his paper by Prof. Christopher Elliott,
Prof. Elliott Richmond and Prof. Bob Leamnson. Thank you.
Recently, on another technologists forum, I was keenly following the
discussions regarding the paper of Prof. Brent G. Wilson on "The Dangers
of Theory-Based Design" he also in his paper quoted Dave Merrill, as
Constructvisim marked only the beginning. Reflecting the turbulence in
psychology and social sciences generally, Instructional design has, in
Dave Merrill's words, been "tossed to and fro" by storms of increasing
violence and frequency. He further adds..."I can understand to Dave
Merrill's reaction, wherein he calls for a return to the comforting values
and beliefs of a prior time. Yet surely, returning blindly to an
objectivist epistemology and simple belief in science will not make the
storms go away".
To the reference..I would like to provide here the website of Prof. Brent
G. Wilson's paper for full reading at
http://dragon.ep.usm.edu/~int/dangers.html
At this point, I'll bring the issue of Prof. Dave Merrill's paper, he
writes at the beginning.."Learning styles are irrelevant"..I am also
totally disagree with this statement, then Why we are wasting so much our
golden time to develop the new techniques of learning ..I think learning
styles are irrelevant in some special concepts..(I dun no..please tell me
anybody), I've n't read the paper of Zempke, may be he is pointing towards
a revolution in the field of learning styles, therefore, his paper also
says, Wake up!!
...my comments are tagged below...
....I can change the phrase, "Learning Styles" to an another phrase
"Learning Strategies"..Learning styles or strategies are really going
together with the new development of technology.
Prof. Merrill has written in his paper, "if you treat people with
different personality attributes differently in the classroom or via
technology, there will be significantly different outcomes in their
learning". I would say, Great comments..Yes, because each people is unique
in himself..
Prof. Merrill also states, "...different students learn the same content
differently..." I am agree with this view..because each human being is
having different pyschology of understanding the same thing..for
example..a person see the clouds in the sky, then he says..look there
is a flower of Rose, but other one says..No, you are wrong, that
looks like an elephant.. And these pictures of clouds in the sky also
showing the analogue with a content of a chapter.
I would like to focus further, young men and women( including myself)..are
learning in the age of Network Technology, which is very modern..people
now a days, can network and play game such as Nintendo..and send e-mails
to any corner of the planet..So, Net is playing a major role..but in the
olden times, there not so much equipments was available to use and to
drain themselves.
But, What Prof. Merrill in his paper expresses.."today young people learn
differently than their parents or grandparents"..is totally an agreeable
statement...Here also the social and human factors are involed in the
process learning..
I will focus more in coming days..I'm still reading the paper of Prof.
Merrill..I'm going line by line..it is really absorbing and scintillating
paper.
See you,
Best Regards
Tireless Arun
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