Teaching+with+Tech+Week+1+Reflection

This week’s readings and videos have been very enlightening. Connectivism and Constructivism theories both had very valid points about how we learn. A connectivism theory says that we learn from connections in the world. Learning just does not occur exclusively in individual minds, knowledge is distributed over an entire network. We rely on connections on a daily basis and learn from those connections. On the other hand Constructivism theory states that we construct our prior knowledge into bigger ideas. A successful learner takes the knowledge they already know and incorporate it into new knowledge. Constructivism is not objective but subjective. It is centered on opinions. Futhermore the cyborg theory was rather intriguing. This theory states that if we download information and link it to the human brain we can enhance our leaning. Kevin Warwick, the first cyborg, and a Professor of Cybernetics believes just that. He had a chip implanted into his arm. The chip that was connected to his nervous system was able to send radio frequency to a computer. This allowed Warwick to open doors and turn on lights in his house. He also had another chip implanted into his nervous system. This chip fires into nerve fibers and electrodes which send a signal to control things that are plugged into the computer. Warwick stated it was almost like having bat senses. It added another sense, ultra sonic. Warwick then went even further by hooking his nervous system up to his wife. The communication is almost telepathic. If the human brain can be linked not only enhances are learning but makes us intellectual superior as opposed to humans not learning and thinking as dimensional as a cyborg.