Educational Theories: Comedy Sketches

Students were introduced to the different educational theories that have been historically applied in many educational systems. Then, they were asked to choose the theory they thought they had applied to their previous task when they worked on their fairy tales.

T H E O R I E S
      Behaviorism

      Behaviorist thinkers including Thorndike, Pavlov and Skinner have hypothesized that learning 
      is a change in observable behavior caused by external stimuli in the environment. The key 
      principle of Behaviorism is the reward or punishment of a new behavior, commonly described
      as the 'carrot and stick' approach to learning.

       Cognitivism

       Cognitivism replaced Behaviorism as the dominant learning paradigm in the 1960s and 
       proposes that learning comes from mental activity such as memory, motivation, thinking and 
       reflection. Cognitivism focuses on the transmission of information from someone who knows 
      (such as an 'expert' as opposed to facilitators) to learners who do not know. 

         Constructivism 

From the constructivist perspective, learning is not a stimulus-response phenomenon as
described by Behaviorism, rather it requires self-regulation and the building of conceptual
structures through reflection and abstraction. The learner takes an active role in constructing
his own understanding rather than receiving it from someone who knows, learning through
observation, processing and interpretation

Example: Lev Vygotsky's Social Development Theory One of the foundations of
constructivism. It asserts three major themes regarding social interaction, the more
knowledgeable other, and the zone of proximal development.

Experientialism

One of the key theorists of experiential learning is David Kolb,  who developed his
experiential model, as opposed to a purer cognitive, which formally recognized that people
learn from  experience and described learning as following a cycle of experiential stages.

Social and Contextual Approach

In the Social and Contextual approach, learning does not occur solely within the learner, but
in the group and community in which they work. Learning is a shared process which takes
place through observing, working together and being part of a larger group, which includes
colleagues of varying levels of experience, able to stimulate each other's development.

Educational Theories Applied

 Group Members: Stefani Gonzalez, Bryce, DeAndre, Danielle, Marisa. 

My group did Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and we believe that the activity we did last week aligned mostly with the social and contextual learning theory. This is because our learning from the activities was predominantly from working together as a group. Not one person took all of the responsibility or did all the work, we all contributed to the activity evenly. We all also shared our own version of the story we were working with to build it into an ending we all agreed with and loved.
Comedy Sketches

Comedy Sketches
Nicole Birmaher 
Julia Rose
Michael Irvin II
Allie Robison 
Stephanie Longmuir 
Sarah Monsey


Three students are taking an exam 

Student 1: *drops pencil 
Student 2: “Here I got it for you!” *goes to pick up pencil 
Teacher: “Hey don’t look down there! Is that a cheat sheet?”
Student 2: “No! I’m just helping her get her pencil! She dropped it!”
Teacher: “That’s your first strike!”

Student 3: *blasting music in headphone
Student 2: “Excuse me, is there any way you could lower that? Were in the middle of the test.”
Teacher: “no talking during the test!!!! That’s your second strike!”
Student 2: “I’m sorry! Can you tell her to take her headphones out? How is that allowed? I can’t focus!”

Student 2: *phone rings 
Teacher: “You know the rules, I have to answer that on speaker.”
Phone speaker: “Hello is this Stephanie?” 
Student 2: “Ya this is Stephanie...”
Phone speaker: “This is doctor Rose from planned parenthood, I have your results. It turns out you are pregnant. Is there any way you can come in to discuss the next steps?”
Teacher: *Hangs up phone abruptly 
Teacher: “You can be excused…”
Student 2: “This is so humiliating!”* Turns red and walks out

Student 2: *walks out of classroom and greets friend who is waiting (person on speaker phone)  
Student 2: “OMG thank you so much! He totally bought it, I was trying to cheat so hard the entire time! That last phone call really just did it! He let me leave!”
Phone speaker: “No way! I need to try this next time!”

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