ISC Staff (interpro@a1.mbn.or.jp)
Mon, 22 Feb 1999 07:23:19 +0900
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 07:23:19 +0900 From: ISC Staff <interpro@a1.mbn.or.jp> Subject: Re: learning environment changes
List address to send message to everyone: ifets-discuss@LISTSERV.READADP.COM
Details of current discussion: http://zeus.gmd.de/ifets/discuss.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
At 12:00 PM 02/21/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:14:38 EST
>From: Kurt Rowley <Kurtrowley@aol.com>
>Subject: Re: IFETS-DISCUSS Digest - 19 Feb 1999 to 20 Feb 1999
>The genetics
>change, sometimes randomly and sometimes due to environmental influences.
>And, the acquired learning strategies lead to connections made in the brain
>that are unique to each individual, based on experiences, genetic traits, and
>decisions made by the learner, and those connections are heavily
influenced by
>the learning environment.
Even if we agree or don't agree with Merrill that learners and how they
learn have not changed, can we agree that the distractions to learning have
changed? Can we agree that the learning environment has changed as a result
of those changed distractions? If we can agree on a changed learning
environment then we can agree that the changed learning environment causes
a premium to be placed on learning skills existing perhaps per Merrill but
not used but now come into play because of the changed learning environment
requiring teaching strategies for both non-content approaches and content
approaches? Informational technology depends on a more developed
multi-style approach to learning than that required even a few decades ago.
My own learning styles definition is sensory input. Although some have less
sensory input none has more than the five senses. My own learning strategy
is an organizational one and certainly that has changed depending on
content and multiple styles input as well as experience and maturity. My
point in bringing up affective styles is that my learning also changes
based on motivation and my feelings about my relationship with the
teacher(s)/subject or how I am challenged by the intensity of the vision.
In other words I step into a far different stream today than I did a decade
ago.
My appreciation to all the participants for a delightful thread even if
most of it is outside my experience/limited learning.
Rick Reynolds, ELTASIA
eltasia@thailand.crosswinds.net
Rick and Linda Reynolds
Interpro@a1.mbn.or.jp
---------------------------------------------------------
Forum website: http://zeus.gmd.de/ifets/
Forum's contact person: kinshuk@ieee.org
Info on Join/Leave List: http://zeus.gmd.de/ifets/maillist.html
---------------------------------------------------------
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0b3 on Mon 22 Feb 1999 - 09:22:30 MET