Our interactive learning resource is an outstanding example and application of cognitivism. “Cognitive theories focus on the conceptualization of students’ learning processes and address the issues of how information is received, organized, stored, and retrieved by the mind” (Ertmer & Newby, 2013, p.55-60). Through tutorial videos and follow-up practices we design, these students would invoke a wide range of mental processes, such as recalling prior knowledge for inflation, reorganizing knowledge for inflation, extracting knowledge of inflation, thinking, and more importantly, problem solving for math-based inflation problems. If some students whose existing knowledge is not sufficient to correctly answer these practices may still have chances to modify and add their existing knowledge by re-watching the tutorial videos and asking on-chat tutors for helps. The latter option similarly involves the cognitivism, because the ability to process and express language is highly demonstrated.
Citation
Ertmer, P. A., & Newby, T. J. (2013). Behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism: Comparing critical features from an instructional design perspective. Performance Improvement Quarterly, 26(2), 43-71.
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