Wk 2: Application EDUC 6115

During this week, I have researched resources from the Walden University Library  websites and online journals accessible that are related to:

v  The Brain and Learning

v  Information Processing Theory

v  Problem-solving Methods During the Learning Process

Each of the following is highly useful in providing useful relevant information for the field of instructional design and technology as well as education.

http://www.funderstanding.com/educators/brain-based-learning/

Great valuable resource of discussion that provides the definition brain based learning and core principles. It details the how brain based research works and what is brain based learning.  It also gives suggestions of readings: Renate and Geoffrey Caine, Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain and Leslie Hart, Human Brain, Human Learning. While it is insightful for the internet user, it is especially for Instructional Design and Technology It embraces innovatively effecting learning styles of any student.

http://www.simplypsychology.org/information-processing.html

Simplypsychology.org provides analysis related to this week’s topic. It details the cognitive psychology, social psychology, psychology perspectives and methods of psychology research methods. Social Psychology page gives the: history, further information, journal information and early experiments and key figures of the field. The “cognitive psychology” page also gives history of the field, YouTube video and other background information. A summary and evaluation of the cognitive approach details very similar as well as some of the same information in the Learning Theories and Instruction text customized from the works of the following authors: Jeanne Ellis Ormrod, Dale Schunck, Margaret Gredler. Key studies, references, and other further information are highlighted at end of the cognitive page. The “perspectives” page has summaries of behaviorist, psychodynamic, humanism, cognitive and biological points of view as well as an "Approaches in Psychology" PowerPoint. The research methods page outlines multiple research methods to gather information related to brain development. This website seemed to provide the most information compiled on the topics of this week.

http://www.education.com/reference/article/information-processing-theory/

This website gives valuable information on how the brain process information. It focuses on sensory memory, working memory, and long-term memory. It compares and contrasts each and also how each uses limited cognitive resources. It further details the implications for instruction in relation to information processing model. This website is highly useful in the field of instructional design and the use of technology. Even though I was only supposed to critique two resources I felt this was just as useful of the previously listed resources.

Justin D. Ward

EDUC 6115