Category: Psychology and Education : Adult Learning

Using Digital Technology To Educate Adult Learners
Post your research topic and 2-3 potential research questions. Briefly summarize how you will conduct your research. Will you be conducting a qualitative study or a quantitative study? Support your methodology choice using examples from the reading.
Does their methodology align with their research focus? Should they consider a different approach?
My audience: Teaching government managers to become executive leaders.
Textbook: https://vk.com/@-210113623-epub-introduction-to-educational-research

From a description of the brain as a kind of central processing unit, we discussed memory and how information is processed through sensory memory to short-term memory and finally on to long-term memory storage. Let’s focus on how aging affects memory. Do you feel that memory loss affects the everyday learning activities of adult learners? If so, how would you make sure the adult learner understands and processes complex information in your classroom?
My classroom includes adult managers seeking to become executive leaders
refer to chapter 15

The reading this week concluded with a description of integrated perspectives on development with salient examples of theorists who have included the biological, psychological, and sociological perspectives in their models of adult development (for example, Baltes and Magnusson). To understand fully how adult development is linked to adult learning, the text suggested that educators of adults move to multiple explanations of what adulthood is all about, rather than rely on just one or two paradigms. The more we learn about adult learners, the changes they go through, and how these changes motivate and interact with learning, the better we can structure learning experiences that both respond to and stimulate development.
Given this information from our readings this week, how do you define adulthood? And what are three key aspects of your definition, as it applies to adult learners in a classroom?
(My classroom is adult managers seeking to be executives)
Reference book: Chapter 12
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQpybfAzmM4

This week, we looked at various theories of adult cognitive development. An important takeaway from our readings is the impact of both dialectical thinking (viewing issues from multiple perspectives) and contextual factors on learning.
Which do you believe is more influential when developing appropriate learning activities: dialectical thinking or contextual perspective? Why?
Refer to chapters 13 and 14

We learned this week about the ways that the brain functions in adulthood and how it affects learning. The idea of cognitive styles (or learning styles) is important, because it says that the adults can exhibit different ways of processing information for the purpose of learning. Global learners, for example, may process multiples streams of information and topics at once, while analytical learners need a much more focused and intentional approach. Given this concept, what are some ways that you could vary the ways that information is presented in a classroom?
What are some strategies for addressing the different needs of adult students in a classroom? What are some challenges?
My classroom includes adult managers seeking to be executives
Reference chapter 15

Watch the video, The Adult Learner Story (10:48), before you complete the discussion

This week you looked at Marxist theory, critical theory, multiculturalism, critical race theory, postmodernism, and feminist theory. Three main themes characterize this perspective. The first theme – race, class, and gender – leads to the second theme of how the intersections of race, class, and gender affect the distribution of resources and power so that some groups in our society are privileged and some are oppressed. The third theme – knowledge and truth – explores the nature and construction of knowledge as it relates to learning.
Think about one of the theories that you’ve encountered this week. How do you think it will impact how you approach instruction?
From Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide:
Chapter 10, “Learning and Knowing: Eastern and Indigenous Perspectives.”
Chapter 11, “Critical Theory, Postmodern, and Feminist Perspectives.”

Narrative learning is the use of stories in the construction of meaning, whether the meaning-making has to do with the self, with the content of instruction, or with the world around us. Rossiter and Clark’s (2007) model claims three main uses of narrative in practice: narrative as curriculum, narrative as storytelling, and narrative as autobiography. Which of these might you use in a classroom setting and why? Describe a specific topic or lesson that you think would work well with one of the chosen narrative uses, and what are some of the challenges to implementing it.

Watch the video, The Adult Learner Story (10:48), before you complete the discussion

This week you looked at Marxist theory, critical theory, multiculturalism, critical race theory, postmodernism, and feminist theory. Three main themes characterize this perspective. The first theme – race, class, and gender – leads to the second theme of how the intersections of race, class, and gender affect the distribution of resources and power so that some groups in our society are privileged and some are oppressed. The third theme – knowledge and truth – explores the nature and construction of knowledge as it relates to learning.
Think about one of the theories that you’ve encountered this week. How do you think it will impact how you approach instruction?
From Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide:
Chapter 10, “Learning and Knowing: Eastern and Indigenous Perspectives.”
Chapter 11, “Critical Theory, Postmodern, and Feminist Perspectives.”

Narrative learning is the use of stories in the construction of meaning, whether the meaning-making has to do with the self, with the content of instruction, or with the world around us. Rossiter and Clark’s (2007) model claims three main uses of narrative in practice: narrative as curriculum, narrative as storytelling, and narrative as autobiography. Which of these might you use in a classroom setting and why? Describe a specific topic or lesson that you think would work well with one of the chosen narrative uses, and what are some of the challenges to implementing it.