CHOICE #1:  Rousseau described a number of learning experiences in which Emile participated. These include the astronomy lesson, the garden plot property lesson, and the breaking windows lesson.

• 1. Select one of the above lessons and describe what happened, what the "teaching" procedures were, and what Emile learned.
• 2. Analyze and discuss how a behaviorist would explain what Emile learned and how he learned it.
• 3. Analyze and discuss how a constructivist would explain what Emile learned and how he learned it.
• 4. From this vantage point in history, which theory, behaviorism or constructivism, most completely explains Rousseau's model of teaching? Why?  (This is where you develop and state YOUR thesis)

CHOICE # 2:   In Learning Outside the Lines, Cole described many learning experiences in his life.

• 1.  List 8 of his experiences.  Include educative, non educative, and miseducative experiences
• 2.  Select 3 of the experiences listed.  Choose one educative, one non educative, and one miseducative experience.  For each describe:

a) How a behaviorist would explain what Cole had "learned" from each experience and how he learned it.
b)  How a constructivist would explain hat Cole had "learned" from each experience and how he learned it.
• 3.  Which theory, behaviorism or constructivism, more COMPLETELY explains how Cole ended up in the Admissions Office of Brown University interviewing for admission to the college.  (This is where you develop and state YOUR thesis)

CHOICE #3:  In Kolb's model of learning the 2 dimensions involved in learning are represented by the 2 axes.

• a) a perceiving dimension (feeling---thinking)
• b) a processing dimension (receiving--doing)

• 1.  For each quadrant, list the ways through which those learners PERCEIVE new experiences and information.
• 2.  For each quadrant, list the BEHAVIORS through which learners PROCESS new experience and information.
• 3.  Imagine a learner with a strong preference for one quadrant.  Specify the quadrant.
• a)  How would behaviorists explain how the behaviors of the learner came to be?
• b)  How would constructivists explain how the behaviors of the learner came to be?


Note:  Make sure you use the technical vocabulary of the theories in your discussion
 

• 4.  Which THEORY, behaviorism or constructivism, more COMPLETELY explains Kolb's model of learning?  Why?  (This is where you develop and state YOUR thesis)