Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Instructional Strategies and Cognitive Learning Theories

Using virtual field trips incorporates all of the cognitive learning theories, promoting many different ways of 'connecting.' A virtual field trip provides for rich episodic experience, integrates multiple senses, combines images with text, elaborates for more connections, and can replicate the network model of memory.
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  1. Karl LoomisMarch 21, 2010 at 3:27 PM

    Lisa,
    I had a great time playing around with the virtual field trip. You summed everything up nicely by saying what it does for our students. I would like to add that I think that they would even have fun with it. I am excited to be able to incorporate it into my lessons!

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  2. L Harrell's Book MunchersMarch 21, 2010 at 5:23 PM

    Hi Karl!

    You are so right - I should have said that I hope they have as much fun as I did! I plan on using concept maps with virtual field trips with all my units now. I just wish I had more time! I spent two hours on my concept map today (for App 3), and it is very 'basic.' I'm hopeing that during Spring Break I can play and figure out mywebspiration.com enough to make some really creative concept maps!

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