Social+Learning

**Monitor:** Elita
 * Social Learning **

The social learning theory states that we learn through observing, mimicking and modelling the behaviour, actions and responses of each other. There are 4 main components of this process.
 * Description**


 * 1) **Attentional process**: the ability to observe the process or procedure
 * 2) **Retention process**: remembering what was observed, which is enhanced by mental imaging and organizational constructs
 * 3) **Reproduction process**: repeating the observed process to enforce learning and to ensure that learning has occured
 * 4) **Incentive or motivational process**: this either encourages or discourages the learner to persisting with the task. it is thought that a largely positive incentive is more effective than a negative one.

Learning through modelling which can be done from a very young age.
 * Possible Benefits**

Transferability of knowledge-sometimes extrapolating from the lesson learned to a different situation may be hard to do, especially when it involves higher level cognitive thinking
 * Possible Problems**

Bandura showed in the early 1960s that preschool children who watched aggresive behaviour, regardless of whether it occured live, on video, or through the use of cartoon characters, showed an increase in the incidence of aggressive behavious themselves
 * Concrete Examples**
 * Example #1** using the Bobo doll to investigate the effects of observes agression- look at this video

A local example of this would be Ron Cross and his Random Acts of [|Rhythm], based in Port Perry. His group teaches drumming using an interactive process. This involves him playing a series of increasingly complex drum beats which would be repeated by learners on their own drums
 * Example #2** Interactive [|Drumming]

//Example 1- Demonstration on how to do a cardiac assessment in// [|nursing]** (Elita) ** This video is one currently used at UOIT in a couple of nursing courses and illustrates the key points in performing a cardiac assessment on a patient. Note that the 'patient' in this video is a 'simulation dummy'. The WBLT also includes an assessment guide for students to use when they practise in the simulation lab
 * WBLT Examples**

//Example 2-// [|Learn English with Pronunciation Power]** (Naseem) **


 * Watch, listen and observe the pronunciation of all English’s phonetics
 * Mimick and repeat what he has listened. This WBLT also encourage the learner to persisting with the task.

//Example 3-// [|Learning French]** (Audrey) ** This is not a WBLT per se, but through the site, the student can listen and repeat the sounds heard to learn French. Only through practice does one acquire the correct pronunciation (vocabulary, grammar, comprehension). The retention process is enhanced by the association of sounds, words and pictures. The list is not exhaustive but it is a start.

Example 4 - [|Bitstrips For Schools] (free trial, also free for all Ontario K-12 educators) **(Colin)** This is one of my favourite WBLTs that has been in use for only about a year in Ontario schools. This one does several things well (I'll add it to the Favorite page too) But this incorporates an interesting social component. Once a student has finished a comic strip that had been assigned, they have the option to share it with their classmates. The classmates can give it laughs, comments, and if they option is selected, can use that comic to remix it to make their own or add to it. It adds a very interesting social component to a rich tool.

Example 5 - Tower of Hanoi **(Mike)** The task is to move all the disks from one peg to another according to the given rules. If the student cannot find the solution, the computer will demonstrate. By finding the solution for 3 disks, the student must extend the proceedure to move 4 disks, 5 disks, etc.

Social Learning ** described at Learning-Theories.Com ** Bandura,A., Ross, D., Ross, S. (1963) imitation of film mediated aggressive models. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. 66 (1):3-11.
 * References**