March 9, 2012 by k. liz Do remember when I wrote about memory
palaces? Well, I guess it will depend on where you put it if you
read the post! Well, I was reading for class this week and the
topic in one of my textbooks was Human Learning. We talked about
the class Pavlov’s dog theory and B.F. Skinner’s Operant
Conditioning theories. I believe that it is important to take
these theories into consideration because they did not just come
out of nowhere. I don’t think that behaviorism is the best
theory to base our teaching methods on, but I think that there
are some truths to take into consideration that can back up some
of the activities that we do in the classroom. That being said,
I turn my attention to a theory of learning that I feel makes a
lot of sense and at the same time gives some direction for
teachers in the classroom. That is Ausubel’s Theory of
Subsumption. This is the first time that I have heard of this
theory, and I admittedly was enthralled in the concept. I’ll let
the textbook explain a little