EDLD 5364- What I learned Week 1

This week I was excited to learn about the theory of constructivism. This theory was relates to educators facilitating student learning by helping them discover know knowledge coupled with their past experiences. I suppose I am a believer in this theory, because I notice that student retain more when they discover with guidance. Also students learn and retain knowledge when they are able to blend new information with existing information. Teachers are not obsolete in this theory as it may seem.

Constructivism modifies that role, so that teachers help students to construct knowledge rather than to reproduce a series of facts. The constructivist teacher provides tools such as problem-solving and inquiry-based learning activities with which students formulate and test their ideas, draw conclusions and inferences, and pool and convey their knowledge in a collaborative learning environment.

• • Citation: Abbott, J. (nd). Building Knowledge: Constructivism in Learning. [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F00R3pOXzuk
   
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