mit3y mouse's List: ProDef and CE

• Constructivism
• how people learn
• people construct their own understanding and knowledge of the   world, through experiencing things and reflecting on those experiences
• With a well-planned   classroom environment, the students learn HOW TO LEARN.
• constructivism   taps into and triggers the student's innate curiosity about the   world and how things work
• attempt to understand how it turns, how it functions.   They become engaged by applying their existing knowledge and real-world   experience, learning to hypothesize, testing their theories, and   ultimately drawing conclusions from their findings.

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• [Is] the technology deployed today being used to best possible advantage? What conditions need to exist in schools for technology to have an impact?

• CAD
  - mit3y mouse on 2007-11-19

• Good problems give students  the chance to solidify and extend their knowledge and to stimulate new  learning.

• Good problems give students
  the chance to solidify and extend their knowledge and to stimulate new
  learning - mit3y mouse on 2007-11-18

• Students should come both to expect and to exploit connections, using insights gained in one context to verify conjectures in another
• Students should come both to expect and to exploit connections, using insights gained in one context to verify conjectures in another.

• Students
  should come both to expect and to exploit connections, using insights
  gained in one context to verify conjectures in another. - mit3y mouse on 2007-11-18

• Lots of Fred Jones and new teacher help...
  - mit3y mouse on 2007-11-18