1. CONSTRUCTIVISM
By: Michael

2. Key Points
 learning is an active, constructive process.
 The learner is an information constructor.
 People actively construct or create their own
subjective representations of objective
reality.
 New information is linked to prior knowledge,
thus mental representations are subjective.

3. Interactive- Hands on
Learning
 Interaction is:
 part of real world learning
 It creates:
 Self Reflection
 It fosters
 Self Discovery

4. Collaboration
 Includes:
 Group work
 Cooperative learning
 Active process
 Constructing knowledge
 External thought process

5. Key People
 Jean Piaget: a psychologist who developed
the cognitive learning theory after he
observed children for many years.

6. Continued…
 Lev Vygotsky: a Russian psychologist who
developed Social Cognition.

7. Continued…
 John Dewey: Was an educational
psychologist and philosopher.
 He believed that learning should:
 engage and expand the experience
of the learners.

8. Classroom Implications
 With Technology:
 Web Projects-Students
 Student designed
 Unstructured
 Web quests- Teachers
 Teacher designed
 structured

9. Continued…
 With out Technology:
 Students:
 Work in groups
 Collaboration
 Teachers:
 Hands on actives
 Have students actively participate in lesson

10. My thoughts:
 I agree 100% with Constructivism
 I like the idea on hands on learning.
 I have never been a fan of sitting and listening to a
teacher talk in front of the class day in and day
out.
 I feel as though students get more than just
information from group actives.
 Social skills
 Team work

11. Credits
 All pictures- www.google.com/images
 Information: Teachers Discovering
Computers: Integrating Technology in a
connected world: Shelly, Gunter, Gunter