Tuesday, January 19, 2010

A FINE LINK TO CONSTRUCTIVIST LEARNING

Please go to the following link to have a good description of constructivist principles.
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~emurphy/stemnet/cle3.html
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FEW TIPS ON CONSTRUCTIVIST LEARNING

Constructivist approaches to teaching and learning have emerged from the work of psychologists and educators such as: Jerome S.Bruner,Jean Piaget and L.Vygotsky.
Jonassen (1994) proposed that there are eight characteristics that differentiate constructivist learning environments:

1. Constructivist learning environments provide multiple representations of reality.

2. Multiple representations avoid oversimplification and represent the complexity of the real world.

3. Constructivist learning environments emphasize knowledge construction instead of knowledge reproduction.

4. Constructivist learning environments emphasize authentic tasks in a meaningful context rather than abstract instruction out of context.

5. Constructivist learning environments provide learning environments such as real-world settings or case-based learning instead of predetermined sequences of instruction.

6. Constructivist learning environments encourage thoughtful reflection on experience.

7. Constructivist learning environments enable "context- and content- dependent knowledge construction."

8. Constructivist learning environments support "collaborative construction of knowledge through social negotiation, not competition among learners for recognition."