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  "humans generate knowledge and meaning from their experiences."

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    generate knowledge and meaning from their experiences
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  • not teachers
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  • articulated mechanisms by which knowledge is internalized by learners.
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  • is an underlying theme of many education reform movements.
  • Today, constructivist theories are influential throughout much of the so-called
    informal learning sector.
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  • • through processes of accommodation and assimilation, individuals
      construct new knowledge from their experiences.
    • Social constructivism thus emphasizes the importance of the learner being
      actively involved in the learning process, unlike previous educational
      viewpoints where the responsibility rested with the instructor to teach and
      where the learner played a passive, receptive role.
    • Vygotsky’s "zone of proximal development"
      (Vygotsky 1978) where learners are challenged within close proximity to, yet
      slightly above, their current level of development.
    • instructors have to adapt to the role of facilitators and not teachers (
    • This dramatic change of role implies that a facilitator needs to display a
      totally different set of skills than a teacher
    • A facilitator should also be able to adapt the learning experience ‘in mid-air’
      by using his or her own initiative in order to steer the learning experience to
      where the learners want to create value.
    • According to social constructivists, the process of sharing individual
      perspectives-called collaborative elaboration (Meter & Stevens,
      2000)-results in learners constructing understanding together that wouldn't be
      possible alone
    • the instructor and the learners are equally involved in learning from each other
      as well
    • The social constructivist model thus emphasizes the importance of the
      relationship between the student and the instructor in the learning process.
    • Some learning approaches that could harbour this interactive learning include
      reciprocal teaching, peer collaboration, cognitive apprenticeship,
      problem-based instruction, web quests, anchored instruction and other approaches
      that involve learning with others.
    • One social constructivist notion is that of authentic or situated learning,
      where the student takes part in activities which are directly relevant to the
      application of learning
    • assessment and learning are seen as inextricably linked and not separate
      processes
    • is the constructivist viewpoint that the foundations of any subject may be
      taught to anybody at any stage in some form (Duffy and Jonassen 1992). This
      means that instructors should first introduce the basic ideas that give life and
      form to any topic or subject area, and then revisit and build upon these
      repeatedly.
    • "constructionism." It included everything associated with Piaget's
      constructivism, but went beyond it to assert that constructivist learning
      happens especially well when people are engaged in constructing a product,
      something external to themselves such as a sand castle, a machine, a computer
      program or a book.
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  • Furthermore, it is argued that the responsibility of learning should reside increasingly with the learner (Von Glasersfeld 1989)
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  • Social constructivism encourages the learner to arrive at his or her version of the truth, influenced by his or her background, culture or embedded worldview.
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  • some research supporting these techniques and other research contradicting those results
  • acknowledges the uniqueness and complexity of the learner, but actually encourages, utilises and rewards it as an integral part of the learning process
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  • • Learners with different skills and backgrounds should collaborate in tasks and discussions in order to arrive at a shared understanding of the truth in a specific field
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      Kim McMonagle on 2009-07-23

      DCSD Digital Eduactors- share an example of a constructivist lesson that really worked for your students. Please include grade level and content area.
      
      My fourth graders engaged deeply in the scientific method when we created terrariums in our ecosystem unit of study. They observed the plant and animal life, recorded findings, asked amazing questions and were eager to research to learn more.
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      Laura Johns on 2009-11-22

      How about student created programs or products made using Alice, Starlogo TNG, E-Toys, or Scratch
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  • Learners with different skills and backgrounds should collaborate in tasks and discussions in order to arrive at a shared understanding of the truth in a specific field
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  • mechanisms by which knowledge is internalized by learners
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  • Constructivism is a psychological theory of knowledge (epistemology) ^[1] which argues that
    humans generate knowledge and meaning from their experiences.
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  Marilyn Hamilton

  Constructivism is a psychological theory of knowledge (epistemology) [1] which argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from their experiences. Constructivism is not a specific pedagogy, although it is often confused with Constructionism, an educational theory developed by Seymour Papert. Piaget's theory of Constructivist learning has had wide ranging impact on learning theories and teaching methods in education and is an underlying theme of many education reform movements. Research support for constructivist teaching techniques has been mixed, with some research supporting these techniques and other research contradicting those results.

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  • humans generate knowledge and meaning from their experiences.
  • play as an important and necessary part of the student's cognitive development
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  • • When individuals assimilate, they incorporate the new experience into an already existing framework without changing that framework.
    • accommodation is the process of reframing one's mental representation of the external world to fit new experiences. Accommodation can be understood as the mechanism by which failure leads to learning
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  • humans generate knowledge and meaning from their experiences.
  • accommodation and assimilation,
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  • • Accommodation can be understood as the mechanism by which failure leads to learning: when we act on the expectation that the world operates in one way and it violates our expectations, we often fail, but by accommodating this new experience and reframing our model of the way the world works, we learn from the experience of failure, or others' failure.
    • The critical goal is to support the learner in becoming an effective thinker.
    • Dynamic interaction between task, instructor and learner
    • web quests
    • reciprocal teaching,
    • If students have to present and train new contents with their classmates, a non-linear process of collective knowledge-construction will be set up.
    • The social constructivist paradigm views the context in which the learning occurs as central to the learning itself (McMahon 1997).
    • Cognitive apprenticeship
    • dynamic assessment
    • The role of the assessor becomes one of entering into dialogue with the persons being assessed to find out their current level of performance on any task and sharing with them possible ways in which that performance might be improved on a subsequent occasion. Thus, assessment and learning are seen as inextricably linked and not separate processes (Holt and Willard-Holt 2000).
    • instructors should first introduce the basic ideas that give life and form to any topic or subject area, and then revisit and build upon these repeatedly.
    • It is also important for instructors to realize that although a curriculum may be set down for them, it inevitably becomes shaped by them into something personal which reflects their own belief systems, their thoughts and feelings about both the content of their instruction and their learners (Rhodes and Bellamy 1999). Thus, the learning experience becomes a shared enterprise. The emotions and life contexts of those involved in the learning process must therefore be considered as an integral part of learning. The goal of the learner is central in considering what is learned (Brown et al. 1989; Ackerman 1996).
    • It is important to achieve the right balance between the degree of structure and flexibility that is built into the learning process. Savery (1994) contends that the more structured the learning environment, the harder it is for the learners to construct meaning based on their conceptual understandings. A facilitator should structure the learning experience just enough to make sure that the students get clear guidance and parameters within which to achieve the learning objectives, yet the learning experience should be open and free enough to allow for the learners to discover, enjoy, interact and arrive at their own, socially verified version of truth.
    • Teachers will find that since the students build upon already existing knowledge, when they are called upon to retrieve the new information, they may make errors. It is known as reconstruction error when we fill in the gaps of our understanding with logical, though incorrect, thoughts. Teachers need to catch and try to correct these errors, though it is inevitable that some reconstruction error will continue to occur because of our innate retrieval limitations.
    • wondering aloud and posing questions to the students for promotion of reasoning (DeVries et al., 2002). (ex: I wonder why the water does not spill over the edge of the full cup?) Teachers also intervene when there are conflicts that arise; however, they simply facilitate the students' resolutions and self-regulation, with an emphasis on the conflict being the students' and that they must figure things out for themselves.
    • It is possible to see social constructivism as a bringing together of aspects of the work of Piaget with that of Bruner and Vygotsky (Wood 1998: 39).
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  • Accommodation can be understood as the mechanism by which failure leads to learning: when we act on the expectation that the world operates in one way and it violates our expectations, we often fail, but by accommodating this new experience and reframing our model of the way the world works, we learn from the experience of failure, or others' failure.
  • However, Constructivism is often associated with pedagogic approaches that promote active learning, or learning by doing.
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  • • n both cases, the theory of constructivism suggests that learners construct knowledge out of their experiences. However, Constructivism is often associated with pedagogic approaches that promote active learning, or learning by doing.
    • Young children develop their thinking abilities by interacting with other children, adults and the physical world.
    • it is argued that the responsibility of learning should reside increasingly with the learner
    • ustaining motivation to learn is strongly dependent on the learner’s confidence in his or her potential for learning. These feelings of competence and belief in potential to solve new problems, are derived from first-hand experience of mastery of problems in the past and are much more powerful than any external acknowledgment and motivation
    • By experiencing the successful completion of challenging tasks, learners gain confidence and motivation to embark on more complex challenges.
    • According to the social constructivist approach, instructors have to adapt to the role of facilitators and not teachers
    • This dramatic change of role implies that a facilitator needs to display a totally different set of skills than a teacher (Brownstein 2001). A teacher tells, a facilitator asks; a teacher lectures from the front, a facilitator supports from the back; a teacher gives answers according to a set curriculum, a facilitator provides guidelines and creates the environment for the learner to arrive at his or her own conclusions; a teacher mostly gives a monologue, a facilitator is in continuous dialogue with the learners (Rhodes and Bellamy, 1999). A facilitator should also be able to adapt the learning experience ‘in mid-air’ by using his or her own initiative in order to steer the learning experience to where the learners want to create value.
    • Other constructivist scholars agree with this and emphasize that individuals make meanings through the interactions with each other and with the environment they live in. Knowledge is thus a product of humans and is socially and culturally constructed
    • agrees that learning is a social process.
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    According to the social constructivist approach, instructors have to adapt to the role of facilitators

  • A teacher tells, a facilitator asks; a teacher lectures from the front, a facilitator supports from the back; a teacher gives answers according to a set curriculum, a facilitator provides guidelines and creates the environment for the learner to arrive at his or her own conclusions; a teacher mostly gives a monologue, a facilitator is in continuous dialogue with the learners
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  • • Most social constructivist models, such as that proposed by Duffy and Jonassen (1992), also stress the need for collaboration among learners, in direct contradiction to traditional competitive approaches
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  • It is important to note that constructivism itself does not suggest one particular pedagogy. In fact, constructivism describes how learning should happen
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      Beth Still on 2008-08-24

      This is so important when teaching students from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.
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  • In past centuries constructivist ideas were not widely valued due to the perception that children's play was seen as aimless and of little importance. Jean Piaget did not agree with these traditional views, however. He saw play as an important and necessary part of the student's cognitive development and has provided scientific evidence for his views.
  • Many people confuse constructivist with maturationist views. The constructivist (or cognitive-developmental) stream "is based on the idea that the dialectic or interactionist process of development and learning through the student's active construction should be facilitated and promoted by adults" (DeVries et al., 2002). Whereas, "The romantic maturationist stream is based on the idea that the student's naturally occurring development should be allowed to flower without adult interventions in a permissive environment" (DeVries et al., 2002).
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  Laura Johns on 2009-11-22
  How about student created programs or products made using Alice, Starlogo TNG, E-Toys, or Scratch
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  Kim McMonagle on 2009-07-23
  DCSD Digital Eduactors- share an example of a constructivist lesson that really worked for your students. Please include grade level and content area.
  
  My fourth graders engaged deeply in the scientific method when we created terrariums in our ecosystem unit of study. They observed the plant and animal life, recorded findings, asked amazing questions and were eager to research to learn more.
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  Beth Still on 2008-08-24
  This is so important when teaching students from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.

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  David Hilton on 2008-09-06
  That is typical white elitist condescension. These theories are nonsense, and worse they give incurious, complacent 'educators' the false belief that they are super-teacher. The world is not a bubble we create for ourselves; it is a rich journey of wonder which defies such reductionism.

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