Week 11 blog

 I think the three priciples that are the most usefull are active, critical learning priciple, the practice priciple and the discovery principle. Practice priciple states that "learners gets lots and lots of practice in a context where the practice is not boring". This means to me that students get repetion witch can be very good for the learning process. Also the discovery principle states that" Overt telling is kept to a well-thought-out-minimum, allowing ample opportunity for the learner to experiment and make discoveries". This is good for students to learn new things on their own. And the active, critical learning principle states that"All aspects of the learning envirioment are set up to encourage active and not critical, not passive, learning". These three priciple are very good for students to learn practice learning and discover new ways to learn.
            Simulation's are very helpful tool in the classroom there many things that you can do with them in the classroom that the students can benefit from. There many different prorams and websites that you can go to and build your own simulation or just learn from one that is already set up. Student that gain knowledge from simulation techniques are getting an advantage in whatever material they are going over, becouse you get a more visual aspect of it and this makes it easy to understand. Clearly simulations are very helpul tool for the classroom.
            After all that being said I think that the three priciples I thought where the most usefull in the classroom are very helpful to students and the way they learn. Also simulations are very important tool in the classroom that should be used more often. In conclusion there are many different ways to teach a classroom the priciples and simulations are great tools to help in the classroom.

Jonassen, D., Howland , J. , Marra, R.M., & Crismond, D. (2008). Meaningfull Learning With Technology. Upper Saddle River, New Jersy : Pearson Prentice Hall.