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​ This week in Teaching with Technology, I learned a great deal about Constructivism, Connectivism, and Cyborg Theory. Constructivism is a when learners base a new concept that they are learning on what they already know. They use what they know make a connection to the new information. For example, students that are learning about trees and their growing stages, would refer to knowledge they already have about the flower and its learning stages. I feel that this is true about all learning. We refer to what we know to make connections in our mind to new information. We need a place to process and put new information in our brains. Connectivism is more than just learning new information. In this process, we connect new ideas with old ones and make connections about where to find new information. This is very vital to our students' learning process. They need to be able to develop their own ideas and be their own teachers. We have to set them up to learn information and they have to be able to learn for themselves (be their own investigators) in the future. The Cyborg theory was quite disturbing to me and I felt that the man, Keven Warwick, was a little disturbed putting computer chips in himself. I do not believe that we need to intermingle with technology so much. I believe it is a great tool that can be used, but is not to replace us as humans.