User:HelenDeWaard
Constructivism
Sites of interest
- Constructivism and Learning: http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/w/x/wxh139/construct.htm
- Constructivism in Learning: http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/constructivism.htm
- Constructivism: What does it look like in the classroom - http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/constructivism/what/looklike.html
- Application of a Constructivist Checklist - http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~emurphy/stemnet/cle5e.html
- Constructing on Constructivism: The Role of Technology - http://ejite.isu.edu/Volume2No1/nanjappa.htm
- Constructivist Approaches to Developing Diverse Communities of Learners Online: Examples from the MET program - http://pcf4.dec.uwi.edu/viewabstract.php?id=448
- Be Constructive: Blogs, Podcasts and Wikis as Constructivist Learning Tools - http://www.elearningguild.com/pdf/2/073106DES.pdf
Task:
Read the attached articles. Plan a lesson and/or an assessment using a constructivist strategy. This lesson and/ assessment can be for your current teaching context or any other context in which you have experience.
Articles:
(select ONE to review)
Atherton J S (2011) Learning and Teaching; Conversational learning theory; Pask and Laurillard [On-line: UK] retrieved 29 September 2011 from http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/pask.htm
Gaskell, J., & Miller, J. (October, 2006). Constructivist Approaches to Developing Diverse Communities of Learners Online: Examples from the MET program. Paper presented at The Fourth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF4), , , , . Available at http://pcf4.dec.uwi.edu/viewabstract.php?id=448
Video Clips:
Watch one or two of the video clips presented. Be prepared to reflect on the impact of the information for your current context or for teaching/learning in a constructivist classroom context.
- Jonassen