Skinner's theory (follow -up1)

Thanks for reading my ealier blog on Skinner's Theory of Learning. I completely agree to author of this blog(Learning Theory from fatworm.wordpress.com) that Skinner's theory alone will not produce deep understanding and self-learning which contructivism and developmental theories would achieve but I still maintain my stand that if this theory is used properly, together with the other theories, it would play a vital role in achieving these educational goals. I emphasized this in my earlier blog when I said, "No theory stands isolated." Teaching is like cooking. One needs a combination of ingredients to cook a very tasty and appetizing meal.Each ingredient plays a specific role, some are vital that if removed would make a big difference in the taste of the food, others are just for effects or could be substituted with another if its not readily available. The whole preparation and the cooking process should so masterfully coordinated to achieve the desired results which would be appetizing, nourishing, tasty or a combination of all the whole cooking objectives. Teaching is just like that. A teacher picks a combination of approaches needed to achieve a specific lesson. Using a single/limited theory or approach throughout one's teaching career would be boring. Will you cook a chicken alone without even using salt or water or oil? Effective teachers use a variety of techniques and always has something new in every lesson so that the students would get something meaningful out of the whole learning process. Skinner's theory as far as I'm concerned plays three vital roles in achieving the objectives of the whole teaching and learning process. 1)MOTIVATION, 2)PRACTICE/DRILL and 3)FEEDBACK. All three ingredients if removed or misused has the ability to paralyze the whole learning process. I would also like to point out that conditioning can be viewed from a different perspective by different people depending on how it suits their objective. Proper conditioning will not lead to what most of the students here in Ghana are in right now. If it would be of any interest to you I would discuss these vital roles and conditioning further in my next blog. My whole point really in the matter is, just as any IT experts would say, please DON'T delete a file(idea/theory) completely unless you're absolutely sure that you will not need it in the future...:=) would love to hear more of your views. Cheers!