Muse #8

Even more types of learning and the possible associated instructional strategies were taught in this week. This time we learnt about Problem-Solving and Affective Learning. For Problem-Solving, there are basically 9 steps involved which range from puzzle problem to story problem to trouble-shooting to issue-based, with many others in between. This is known as Jonassen's Taxonomy of Problems. (Seriously, even 'problems' can be so problematic?! okay, sorry, I'm just being lame. heh)

Affective / Attitude Learning (yay! something more interesting. =p), according to Krathwohl, consists of Receiving, Responding, Valuing, Organisation and Characterisation. In my group's WebQuest project, we utilised the level of Organisation. In our WebQuest designed for lower primary school students, the basic idea was about educating them about the 3Rs - Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, and enabling them to implement it in their daily lives. Hence the level of Organisation in the Affective Outcome of Learning would be something like the students will accept, appreciate and be committed to the importance and value of environmental consciousness and actively do their part to make a difference.