Learning Theories
and Models
and Models
A group of people that you learn from and alongside through collaboration, sharing, and discussion.
What is a personal learning network?
This tool lets users create videos from photos, video clips, and music (and used in our second week of class).
What is Animoto?
This type of digital textbook can be downloaded by students or instructors for free.
What are open textbooks?
The street that Teachers College is located on in New York City.
What is West 120th Street?
This is the most commonly used password in the world.
What is 123456?
The process of translating a work into a different medium.
What is transmediation?
This is the term for unwanted, disruptive intrusion, generally by Internet trolls, into a Zoom/video-conference call.
What is Zoom Bombing (or Zoom Raiding)?
Communities of [BLANK] are formed by people who engage in a process of collective learning in a shared domain of human endeavor.
What are communities of practice?
The year Teachers College was established.
What is 1887?
What’s the tallest building in the world?
What is the Burj Khalifa (Dubai)?
This Teachers College professor developed the Transformative Learning Theory.
Who is Jack Mezirow?
This technology can provide immersive learning experiences for students, like field trips and simulated medical procedures.
What is AR and/or VR?
The term for someone who grew up in a digital world, and is the opposite of a digital immigrant.
What is a digital native?
The current president of Teachers College.
Who is Thomas R. Bailey?
What was the previous color of the yellow-colored cabs in New York City?
What is red and green?
This theory is a framework for learning in a digital age. It emphasizes how internet technologies (like search engines and social networks) contribute to new avenues of learning.
What is Connectivism?
40% of all websites use this popular blogging and content management tool.
What is Wordpress?
The term “facilitator” comes from the Latin word facilis which means this.
What is “easy” or “easy to do?”
The number of programs of study available at Teachers College. (Will accept answers +5/-5)
What is 60?
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an autobiography about the early years of what inspirational African-American writer and poet?
Who is Maya Angelou?
This influential figure in education reform developed the experiential learning theory which states that knowledge is socially constructed and based on experiences.
Who is John Dewey?
The first video posted on this popular video-hosting platform was titled "me at the zoo."
What is YouTube?
This type of culture supports creating and sharing one’s creations with others over mutual interests (ie, fandoms, video games).
What is participatory culture?
This notable Teachers College alumni was an American Artist known for her paintings of enlarged flowers.
Who is Georgia O'Keeffe?
This ancient library was believed to have housed 700,000 books before it was destroyed in 640 CE.
What is the Library of Alexandria?