Question 4

Gardner , Bloom and Glasser

The inclusion on the above hyperlinked game in my existing blog demonstrates incorporated aspects of many theorists work.

To begin with, including the picture and game in the blog showed the use of Gardener's thinking. According to Gardner there are multiple intelligences and everyone has a predominant learning style. The picture would stimulate interest in many visual learners as broke up the text and provided a visual stimulation for them. The game was as important inclusion as it was an education game that required players to consider different countries stances on nuclear weapons. Therefore it would have stimulated visual, existential, kinesthetic and logical learners.

The picture and game also incorporated ideas by Bloom, as the children are required to think when playing the game. They are expected to hear facts about certain countries and deduce which country it was and their stance on nuclear weapons. It requires deeper thought such as analyzing and evaluating. Some remembering is also required as student’s prior knowledge is also very useful in the game.

According to Glasser, fun is one of the five driving forces in someone life. This is shown in the blog through the game above as many students consider games to be a fun aspect of learning. They also have the freedom to choose whether to play or for how long they will play. Freedom is another of the five driving forces.

Vygotsky

The following is a comment from another student visiting the blog.

What would it have been like if this was done at 8pm last night???Well this could have been an interesting phone conversation, alot of swearing and some laughing about how stupid we are because we can't do it. Then the questions would have come flying 'how did you do that?' 'what does your screen look like?' 'how come mine doesn't look like that?' 'what's wrong with my #$!* *^#$@!* computer?'. This could have been a disaster last night, but because we were all sitting here helping each other we were talking it through. Guys this is SOCIAL INTERATCTION at its best. We are now a community, an online community who would have thought... Communicating in person and with a screen infront of the both of you is so much easier than over the phone, where little, stupid mistakes are easily missed.
Posted by Karlie

The inclusion of this comment shows social interaction as it allows communication between people and the sharing of their ideas. Vygotsky believed that social interaction was vital. He also believed that when two students share ideas, their zone of proximal development meets. Thus they learn from each other. The inclusion of this post shows the thoughts of another student, by posting it, others can read it and thus learn from her thoughts. If they wish, they can reply, thus completing the circle of social interaction and learning from your peers.