By: Erin Lansberry

Constructivism

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Constructivism:

Students construct what they learn or

comprehend

The way that people create meaning through

individual constructs

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What is it?

Learning should be active

Students should:

Construct knowledge rather than acquire it.

Be apart of the learning process

By building and creating meaningful artifacts

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What is it?

Originators or important key figures:

Vygotsky Piaget Dewey Vico Rorty Bruner

Key Figures

Created Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)

The space between what a student can not do

And what they can do with help

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Vygotsky

Created 4 cognitive stages of development:

Sensorimotor: from birth to 2 years old

Preoperational: from 2 to 7 years old

Concrete Operational: from 7 to 11 years old

Formal Operational: from 11 to adulthood

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Without Technology:

Let the students lead activities and lessons.

Do classroom experiments in every subject

Know where the students are in Piaget’s stages

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Technology:

Watch ‘The Big Magic School Bus’ or ‘Bill Nye the Science

Guy’ that are captivating to students

Then have students perform the tasks from the show

Use smart boards; allow the children to work out the problem

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Without Technology:

Group projects

Experiments- hands on activities

Solve problems by having students figure it out

Create important artifacts to help remember key aspects

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Classroom Implication-Students

Technology:

Computers help engage the students

By playing games

Make power points to further understand topics

Use smart boards to figure out problems

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I believe in the saying, “ I hear and I forget. I

see and I remember. I do and I understand” by

Confucius.

Which follows the Constructivism learning

theory

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Use students interests so that they will want to learn.

Plan experiments, group and hands-on activities

Make sure not to just lecture but to have the

students engaged.

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