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During week one of EDLD 5364, I began to gather an understanding of constructivism and how it is used in education. Constructivism is the process of learning and the association process of what we learn. For example you may have five students learn about the state of California, but because each student has had different life experiences they may already have different perspectives of what they are learning. One student may have lived in California, another student may have visited Disney Land in California, and another student may never have been out of the state of Texas, but saw an article on the travel channel. They all have a different base of which they are associating their learning of their assignment. This is in essence how Constructivism works. I also learned that with this method all people continue to associate things with what they learn and so their learning is ever evolving.

Cyborg Theory is a theory that relates to how technology is evolving and becoming part of the human being. Professor Kevin Warwick is a researcher of Cybernetics believes that technology will become a part of the human in order to increase our own abilities. A majority of this purpose would be for communications or to increase memory or other abilities. I find that in some ways we have already touched on this in a medical way. For example I have had a pacemaker for over 14 years. I am currently on my second and it has new technologies that allow it to record heart beats for the doctors to analyze. It also has the ability to be programmed to do certain things in order to correct irregular rhythms. However as we begin to enter into realms of neurological manipulation in regards to learning there may be an ethical battle that both medical and educational fields will face.