Constructivism is an epistemological belief about what "knowing" is and how one
"come to know."
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opportunity for concrete, contextually meaningful experience through which they can search for patterns, raise their own questions, and construct their own models.
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take on more ownership of the ideas, and to pursue autonomy, mutual reciprocity of social relations, and empowerment to be the goals.
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This movement occurs in the so-called "zone of proximal development" as a result of social interaction.
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disappointed with the overwhelming control of environment over human behavior that is represented in behaviorism.
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This transformation involves the mastery of external means of thinking and learning to use symbols to control and regulate one's thinking.
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the claim is that mental processes can be understood only if we understand the tools and signs that mediate them
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the gesture of pointing could not have been established as a sign without the reaction of the other person.
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symbol system which represents things by design features that can be arbitrary and remote, e.g. language
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promote concept discovery, the teacher presents the set of instances that will best help learners to develop an appropriate model of the concept.
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Variables in instruction: nature of knowledge, nature of the knower, and nature of the knowledge-getting process
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Feedback must be provided in a mode that is both meaningful and within the information-processing capacity of the learner.
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Cognitive constructivists focus on the active mental construction struggling with the conflict between existing personal models of the world, and incoming information in the environment.
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in which learners construct their models of reality as a meaning-making undertaking with culturally developed tools and symbols
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Errors need to be perceived as a result of learners' conceptions and therefore not minimized or avoided.
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the learners are responsible for defending, proving, justifying, and communicating their ideas to the classroom community.
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learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.
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learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.
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learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.
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that learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.
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learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.
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learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.
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Bruner's major theoretical framework is that learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.
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Digital Natives Looking to Unplug, Connect | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network - 0 views
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If you were creating a classroom, what would it look like? It would be interactive and have a lot of activities. It should be half and half activities and lecture. I do like when it’s more open, but it is important for us to know what lecture looks like because we might have to do that later. The tables should be set up in a circle so we are all facing each other and talking.
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It turns out, however, that in this group of students, many talked as if they craved more human interaction, and wanted to unplug more during class
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our students and these students we interviewed have been around technology so much, that when they were asked questions about technology, they had a hard time understanding the question (what do you mean, technology?). Technology isn’t technology for our students–it’s just part of their lives
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Educators say not to incorporate technology for technology’s sake, but more often than not, it is assumed that a new tech tool will effectively engage students
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As teachers, we shouldn’t be taking away real opportunities for students to engage with each other and simply replacing those opportunities of connection with technology