The Many Faces of Constructivism
The Essence of Constructivism
building
scaffolding
piecing together prior knowledge with new
order into chaos
The Constructivism Cocktail
Montessori
Dewey
Bruner
Piaget
Vygotsky
Glasersfeld
The Constructivist Learner
autonomous
problem solver
doer
collaborator
The Polarisation of Constructivism
paradigm
amalgam
behaviourism
amorphous
Classroom is student-centered and not lesson-centered
The good
Ownership of learning.
The Good
Lifelong way to approach new learning.
The Good
"Learning is an active process of meaning-making based� on experience."
The Good
Students rely on group-thinking
The Bad
Time consuming. Individualized instruction
The Bad
Standard curriculum suffers.
The Bad
Tech Integration
"my students are empowered to document their world and seek answers to their questions all by themselves"
-Tahireh Thampi
"the speed and ease by which they can create and manipulate multiple graphs will allow them to develop a relationship between the equations and go from exploring to understanding without me telling them the right answer." - Scott Hahn
"allowed students to use Spanish in a comfortable way"
-Alicia Brown
technology opens countless possibilities for a constructivist classroom
Steffe, Leslie and Gale, Jerry. 1995. Constructivism in Education. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
The Constructivism classroom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR9LqmT0k-U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0s_qxJDuas&playnext=1&list=PL69B7A01B9E42B183&feature=results_main
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