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What is cognitivism?
Who is Jean Piaget and Lev
Vygotsky?
How cognitive learning is used in
classrooms.
In my classroom how cognitive
learning will be used.
The end
3. What?
Cognitivism: is the theory that humans
generate knowledge and meaning
through sequential development of an
individual’s cognitive abilities.
What else?
4. What Else?
Cognitive abilities: refers to the mental
process that includes:
attention, remembering, producing and
understanding language, solving problems,
and making decisions.
Who studied this?
5. Who?
Jean Piaget : a French-speaking Swiss
developmental psychologist and
philosopher known for his studies with
children.
According to Piaget, the ability to learn a
concept is related to a child’s stage of
intellectual development.
Who else thought this?
6. Who Else?
Lev Vygotsky: was a pioneering
psychologist, who investigated child
development.
He observed how higher mental functions
developed through social interactions.
How is this done in a classroom?
7. How?
Inthe classroom we can use cognitive
learning by :
Role playing
Math equations
Experiments
Puzzles
How else?
8. How?
Zone of proximal development : the
range of tasks that a child can complete
independently and those completed with
the guidance and assistance of adults or
more-skilled children.
The guidance of a more skilled individual
promotes cognitive development.
How I can use this in my classroom?
9. In my classroom we will have:
Scavenger hunts on the internet: students
search for their answers and locate them
on their own.
Mentor program: incorporate the ZPD
What else in my classroom?
10. In my classroom we will have
• Word Puzzles: to challenge their minds.
• Experiments: to make them think outside
of what they may already know.
• Games with memory: help them build
their memorizations skills.
• The End!