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THE VISUAL LEARNING STUDIO
See the idea. Understand the connection.
35 visual explanations across 29 chapters, with topic maps throughout the library.
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SEE IT. CONNECT IT. EXPLAIN IT.
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Learning Theories — lesson overview
Behaviour and reinforcement
Behaviourist accounts focus on observable behaviour and relations with environmental consequences or associations.
Reinforcement increases the future likelihood of a behaviour under the relevant conditions; punishment aims to reduce it.
Negative reinforcement removes an aversive condition to strengthen behaviour. It is not another name for punishment.
Cognitive and constructive perspectives
Cognitive approaches examine attention, memory, representation and information processing. Meaningful connections can improve understanding and retrieval.
Constructivist perspectives emphasise learners actively building and revising understanding, rather than merely receiving unchanged information.
Active construction does not require abandoning explicit explanation; guidance and exploration can be combined according to the objective and learner.
Social learning and classroom use
Observing models and their consequences can influence learning. The learner’s attention, interpretation and context affect what is acquired.
Collaborative activity can support understanding when participants explain, question and build on reasoning, not merely sit together.
A theory is a framework for explanation; avoid assuming one method is automatically best for all content, ages and circumstances.
