Session 2 - Learning Theories

Air Pollution

Values

Through this activity students’ awareness on air-pollution were evoked and they also realized they contributed a lot to air-pollution in their daily life unconsciously.

Student learned various threaten caused by air-pollution such as global warming, ozone depletion and acid rain and how to avoid those threats.

Strength

Student would stimulated on thinking how they can help to prevent the earth form air-pollution, knowing the fact of threaten bought by air-pollution, finally students gain problem solving skills with this activity.

Limitation

The proposal would be bounded from the first three sections and the suggestion stated on the proposal requirement, because the statement said “From time to time you should refer to the three learning objects presented in the previous sections” and “We suggest that you begin your project with mind map”, it not only limit research process but also limited their thinking process.

Cognitivism

Cognitivism, stress on the learner’s mental processes such as thinking, memory, knowing and problem solving.

In this activity the designer provide some fact and information to the learner. The designer intends to change the learner’s schema by providing such information.

Kinley Chan Cho Kin