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Bullock (2025) lecture on how teachers learn presented the idea that teachers can learn from problematic situations when they engage in reflection-in-action in the action present, which may lead to reframing and developing of knowledge-in-action. I concur as I have experienced this in my practice. I think and learn from problematic situations when they occur,…
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Bullock (2016) reviews how teacher training was traditionally based on propositional knowledge taught in coursework and experiential knowledge gained during the Practicum. The participant in Bullock (2011) as described in Bullock (2016) described the Practicum as a false apprenticeship. I agree with the participant in Bullock (2011) as described in Bullock (2016) because I had…
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How do we balance evidence of process and product when attempting to accurately assess a student’s evidence of understanding? Frontier (2023) argues that new AI tools such as generative AI present transformational opportunities—and challenges—for teaching and learning. Therefore we need to take a transformational approach to utilizing generative AI and ask transformative questions (Frontier, 2023).…
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Tony Frontier asked the very pertinent question “What can leaders do to help ensure ChatGPT and other new AI tools will expand and support, rather than undermine teaching and learning?” (Frontier, 2023). He argued that generative AI presents transformational opportunities—and challenges—for teaching and learning. Therefore we need to take a transformational approach to utilizing generative…
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Generative AI takes your requests, questions or prompts and quickly answers them. The technology to do this is quite complicated. Generative AI uses deep learning, a subset of AI that uses transformers (think interconnected hierarchies of code, not cars that can turn into robots) to detect patterns across thousands of layers of if-then scenarios. Large…
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Generative AI are state-of-the art language processing AI models that can generate human-like text and have a wide range of applications, including language translation, language modelling and generating text for applications such as chatbots. The most well-known use so far is in creating ChatGPT – a highly capable chatbot. ChatGPT can answer questions, tell stories,…
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Bullock (2025) explained that Learning Sciences is an interdisciplinary study of learning, teaching, and how to design effective learning environments and experiences, with the goals of improving educational practices and systems and to shed light on how students learn. The Learning Sciences encompasses a wide variety of views on what constitutes learning and how to…
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I do believe in the idea of short-term or working memory and long-term memory from my own personal experiences. When I put in long hours at work and am sleep deprived, I actually observe myself forgetting things and I feel the effects of the lack of sleep on my memory. So I agree that understanding…
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Albert Bandura is the learning theorist known for social learning theory. Social learning theory is a theory of learning and social behavior that proposes that learning and new behaviours are learned through the imitation of others and through observing others’ rewards and punishments. When a particular behavior is rewarded regularly, it will persist. Conversely, if…
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In the constructivist view of learning, knowledge is constructed by the student and the teacher is a facilitator rather than a sage on stage. Sage on stage is a reference to the teacher as the provider of knowledge and teaching in a didactic manner characteristic of the behaviourist approach to learning. In the constructivist view…