Week 2-1 Summary

1.) An individual will learn when an action is demonstrated. Thus, the teacher must create a positive learning environment by promoting positive reinforcement. In turn, self-efficiency will produce positive student outcomes.

                                                                          


2.) Learning, according to the social cognitive theory, is when an individual learns by observing both the actions of others and the consequences of those actions. In other words, learning can occur anywhere at any time. Whether it be in a classroom from a teacher or when a child is at a friends house. The learning can also be constructive (i.e. learning how to do math) or social (i.e. learning how to ride a bike at a friends house). Regardless of what an individual learns, positive or negative, the individual will always find out the consequences of the actions that were just learned.
                                                                         


3.) What I learned about the social cognitive theory is that I am now aware that no matter what one learns, there will always be a consequence to whatever was learned regardless if it is positive or negative. I am also aware that a child can learn an action from anyone (not just a teacher), especially in an instance like the children in the Bobo video where they learned to hit the doll after they observed the adults hitting the doll. However, a new topic I learned was the self efficacy theory. According to its definition it is when "people's beliefs about their capabilities to produce designated levels of performance that exercise influences over events that affect their lives." I found it fascinating because (in my opinion) self efficacy is when a person is confident in their abilities to perform a task (i.e. math). However, self efficacy and self esteem are two different things because even though an individual is confident in their abilities, they still may feel unsure about their abilities when doubt is inserted in their mind by another individual (i.e. teacher). While on the other hand, I learned that the self determination theory are choices that people make without the influence from outside stimuli. Which also makes sense because it doesn't matter how much effort a teacher makes, if the student makes the choice that they do not want to learn then they will most likely won't since education involves both teacher and student making an effort.
                                                                       


4.) I do believe that the social cognitive theory supports my own beliefs in how human learning occurs because no matter where the child is they will always observe and then do what they observe regardless if it comes from a parent, teacher, or friend, and even an animal! (Some children will crawl on all fours to copy their dog!). If I were to teach a classroom I would apply this theory to the classroom because if the children do not observe what I am doing then hopefully they will observe what their classmate is doing (in regards to the lesson). So in a way, they are still learning regardless if it comes from me or another student (however, I would hope it would come from me!).


                                                                                 

5.) For this lesson, I did not have any questions or concerns. Yay!

	Modules	Topics  & Activity	Check ✓ if Completed
Week 2	Week 2-1 *Due by July 24 at 10:59 am	1) Week 2-1 Reading Quiz	✔
		2) Week 2-1 Discussion Forum: one initial response & two peer feedback replies	✔
		3) Week 2-1 Personal Blog Reflection	✔
	Week 2-2 *Due by July 24 at 10:59 am	1) Week 2-2 Reading Quiz
		2) Week 2-2 Discussion Forum: One initial response & two peer feedback replies
		3) Week 2-2 Personal Blog Reflection

7.) Social Blog Activity

Hello Marissa,
First off, I really enjoyed reading your blog! I love the way how you explained self-efficacy and also threw in your own personal experience with it. I can, in a way, relate except I had the opposite scenario. In high school I was a B student but now in the passed couple years I have gotten As. Who knew! But I also liked that although you weren't getting As all the time that you did not let that get the best of you!
-Melissa

Hello Sadie!
In the section about what you learned, I completely agree about what happens if the students self-efficacy is too high. Ironically, after reading I was thinking the same thing because in my opinion having a student that has too high a self-efficacy is just as bad as having a student with too low of a self-efficacy. If you ever find out the solution to that let me know!
-Melissa