Reviewing Reviewing ConstructivismConstructivism

Reviewing Reviewing ConstructivismConstructivism

Lindsay SchesslerMarch 20, 2012

Group 11EDU 150: Intro to Electronic Portfolios

Lindsay SchesslerMarch 20, 2012

Group 11EDU 150: Intro to Electronic Portfolios

SummarySummary

Constructivism focuses its attention on the importance of the knowledge, beliefs, and skills a student brings to the learning experience.

In the classroom teachers are to organize problems and observe students’ investigations while encourage new patterns of thinking.

Supporting thinking helps students achieve their own intellectual identity

Constructivism focuses its attention on the importance of the knowledge, beliefs, and skills a student brings to the learning experience.

In the classroom teachers are to organize problems and observe students’ investigations while encourage new patterns of thinking.

Supporting thinking helps students achieve their own intellectual identity

PROSPROS

This method of teaching helps students form questions and then work to analyze and answer them thus becoming better problem solvers

Students can apply this learning style to any area and continue to build their understanding on the changing world they live in

This learning style can be a fun, more involved environment for students and help better their school experience

This method of teaching helps students form questions and then work to analyze and answer them thus becoming better problem solvers

Students can apply this learning style to any area and continue to build their understanding on the changing world they live in

This learning style can be a fun, more involved environment for students and help better their school experience

CONSCONS

Since this technique focuses on the students teaching themselves things about the world around them, this may take away from the fundamentals students need to learn in order to have basic knowledge for secondary education

If the teachers do not implement this teaching style correctly it could not be effective to students and they may not get what they’re supposed to out of it

Since it is not easy to let go of ideas or beliefs, it may be difficult for teachers to switch to constructivism from another learning style and they may not incorporate all of the required steps

Since this technique focuses on the students teaching themselves things about the world around them, this may take away from the fundamentals students need to learn in order to have basic knowledge for secondary education

If the teachers do not implement this teaching style correctly it could not be effective to students and they may not get what they’re supposed to out of it

Since it is not easy to let go of ideas or beliefs, it may be difficult for teachers to switch to constructivism from another learning style and they may not incorporate all of the required steps

Three ActivitiesThree Activities

The children can be prompted with the question “what happens when a seed is planted?” and then plant seeds and observe and collect data on what they observe happening and the different stages of it.

The students can create an “ecosystem” made of pop bottles where plants grow on top and guppies and snails live on the bottom. They can then observe how both sections work and what they see occurring in both sides.

Children can observe how water expands when it becomes solid by filling something with water and marking a waterline and then seeing where the line is once the water is frozen.

The children can be prompted with the question “what happens when a seed is planted?” and then plant seeds and observe and collect data on what they observe happening and the different stages of it.

The students can create an “ecosystem” made of pop bottles where plants grow on top and guppies and snails live on the bottom. They can then observe how both sections work and what they see occurring in both sides.

Children can observe how water expands when it becomes solid by filling something with water and marking a waterline and then seeing where the line is once the water is frozen.