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As interesting as this sounds Lucy, I think it's a big leap between how digital natives' brains work to needing a new learning theory! Then with what you said, people older in life that learn a new language would also require a new learning theory, no? I know "Rosetta Stone" and alike exist but do they actually teach us the new language or are we just imitating?
Radhika, I totally agree with your points and explain why no new theories are necessary at this present time. When we as constructivist see our "learned knowledge" might need a different approach to our online learning, I see no reason to change.
So I say to you when combining theories or models does that require a "new" theory or model? I think not, it just makes the theories and models work for you at the time. By trying to make a "new" theory or model does it not just convolute and confuse the learner? I would like to use the constructivist learning example that can already be misconstrued by many similar theories.
Strong argument on connectivism not being a learning theory! As for needing new models, first I believe as long as there are people with new ideas there will be people bringing new models forward. Does that make it a good idea though? Should we not just use the current successful models, and adapt them to fit the needs of the learner if required?
When thinking of online learning models Community of Inquiry (CoI) and Community of Practise (CoP). Both similar in many ways. Both based on a constructivist learning theory. Both have very similar images, three circles overlapping each other, indicating that the knowledge overlaps from circle to circle. Even the concepts of their theories are similar.
(CoP) is the process of sharing information and experience with a group of like learners to learn and develop personally and professionally (Lave and Wenger, 1991).
(CoI) is an educational who collaboratively engage in purposeful discourse and reflection to construct personal meaning and mutual understanding (Anderson and Archer, 2000).
Both models clearly depict how successful online learning can occur. In fact how different would we learn using one model over the other? Not too much I suspect. So I say there already exists two models that are so similar in nature, successfully helping to construct knowledge, do we REALLY need more?
And how did they do that? They called God up and said, hey I wanna write this thing called the Bible I need your input?
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