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Callison, Daniel – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1997
"Mental modeling" refers to a student's ability to visualize or comprehend the information research process. This article reviews 50 years of changing conceptions of how we learn: behaviorist, cognitivist, and constructivist perspective; describes the application of three "mental models" to interactive technology; and discusses…
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Cognitive Psychology, Constructivism (Learning), Decision Making
Barron, Daniel D. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1996
Presents a perspective on behaviorism in schools and teacher education, then focuses on the beliefs and effectiveness of constructivism. Discusses information literacy and transferable library skills as the results of individual, active learning and curriculum-integrated library instruction. Provides resources to further explore constructivism and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Behaviorism, Constructivism (Learning), Course Integrated Library Instruction
Callison, Daniel – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2000
Discusses the concept of taxonomy in learning. Highlights include cognitive domain, affective domain, and psycho-motor domain; behaviorism and constructivism; scaffolding; other classification formats, including rubrics and matrices; learning taxonomy applied to information literacy and to library media specialist as teacher; and the taxonomy for…
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Classification, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Secondary Education
