Technology in The Constructivist Learning Environment

A Continuing Professional Education (CPE) grant under the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) K to 12 Transition Program
Summer Camp on Educational Technologies for 21st Century Teachers
Technology in the Constructivist

Learning Environment
JOY M. DY, MST-CS

Faculty/Internship Coordinator, Information
Technology Department
College of Computer Studies, Silliman University
Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental
Learning Outcome
Develop an educational
website as a collaborative tool
for teaching and learning
using Weebly.
Key Understanding
At the end of this presentation, you will be able to:
• Describe a constructivist learning environment.
• Discuss constructivist teaching methods.
• List different technologies for constructivist learning
environment.
Presentation Outline
• Constructivist Learning Environment (CLE)
Topic 1
• Constructivist Teaching Strategies

Topic 2
• Technological Tools for Constructivist Learning

Topic 3
• Creating an Educational Website

Topic 3
CLE Defined
The constructivist learning environment attempts to FOCUS on
REFLECTING on ONE’S OWN EXPERIENCES and UNDERSTANDING
of the world.
For the learning environment, the instructor is continually ADJUSTING

INDIVIDUAL MODES to ACCOMMODATE new LEARNING
EXPERIENCES.
TEACHING STRATEGIES utilizing a constructivist approach

must MATCH a STUDENT’S DEVELOPMENTAL LEVEL at
both the primary and secondary level.
CLE Key Principles

1. Learning is a search for meaning.
2. Meaning requires understanding wholes as well as parts.
3. In order to teach well, educators must understand the mental
models that students use to perceive the world and the
assumptions they make to support those models.
4. The purpose of learning is for an individual to construct
his/her own meaning, not just memorize the “right” answers
and regurgitate someone else’s meaning.
Constructivist
Teaching
Strategies
Characteristics of a Constructivist
Classroom
the learners are
the environment
ACTIVELY is DEMOCRATIC
INVOLVED
the teacher facilitates a

the activities are process of learning in
INTERACTIVE and which students are
STUDENT- ENCOURAGED to be
RESPONSIBLE and
CENTERED AUTONOMOUS
Activities in Constructivist Classrooms

Roles of Teachers
David Jonassen identified three major roles for facilitators to
support students in constructivist learning environments:
Technological
Tools
Use of Technology for Constructivist

Learning
Using educational technology as a constructivist tool could aid
students to represent their ideas, articulate what they know,
and explore, manipulate, and process information, while
actively collaborating with each other (Jonassen, Peck, &
Wilson, 1999).
Types of Instructional Softwares

✓Applications
✓Drill and Practice
✓Tutorials
✓Simulation‘
✓Instructional Games
✓Problem – solving
✓Multimedia
✓Teacher Utilities
Applications
Definition
A group of applications programs that is designed to automate general-purpose and specific
tasks such as word processing, database management, spreadsheet, attendance,
accounting, grade reporting, scheduling and others.
Features
■ acquire knowledge and insight about content and processes.
■ enhance problem-solving
and thinking skills.
■ enhance students’ technical
skills.
■ enhance student’s personal
productivity.
Drill and Practice

Definition
Drill and practice software provides exercises in which students work
example items one at a time and receive feedback on their
correctness.
Features
■ Reinforce instruction by providing the repetition necessary to
move acquired skills and concepts into long-term memory.
■ Capture and retain the attention of students.
■ Save teachers’ time and efforts.
■ Personalize instruction by meeting individual differences among
learners.
Definition
Tutorials
A tutorial exposes the learner to material that is
believed not to have been previously taught or learned.
A tutorial often includes pre-test, post test and drill and
practice activities.
Features
■ Follow linear programmed instruction or branching
design.
■ Encourage students to interact, control and response
to the program.
■ Guide the learner throughout learning from the
beginning (objectives) to the end (evaluation).
■ Have computer-management capabilities (e.g. data
collection).
Auslan Sign Tutorial

Tutorials
This system provides an easy-to-use and
interactive tutorial for learning the basics in
communicating in the Australian Sign
Language (Auslan).
■ 3D model for signing.
■ 3D model shows emotion.
■ Numbers Mode.
■ Over 60 sign phrases to learn.
■ Random Quiz tests.
Tutorials
Food Hygiene
This tutorial is designed to teach
students at a school of medicine a
complete course on food hygiene which
concerns food and the prevention of
illness and maintenance of health. Uses
well-prepared text supported by
pictures, audio and video clips.
Simulations
Definition
A simulation is a computerized model of real or imagined system designed to teach how a
system works and allows learners to create their own sequence for using simulation.
Features
■ Involve students into learning process.
■ Compress time or slow down processes.
■ Save money and resources.
■ Make experimentation safe.
■ Make impossible situations possible and controllable.
■ Let student repeat events as many times as they want.
Simulations
Infinite Physics Simulator
Infinite physics simulator has a large
collection of objects useful for optics
simulation including mirrors, prisms,
lenses and other transparent objects.
Simulations
Curvilinear
Friendly design, users do not need to

get trained to operate these tools. Using
buttons, textboxes and slide bars
learners can run or stop the experiment
and change the parameters of the
phenomena.
Instructional Games
Definition
Instructional games are courseware designed to motivate learning by adding game rules to
learning activities.
Features
■ Make learning fun and motivating (Edutainment).
■ Motivate learners via the challenge of competition.
■ Engage the learner in a situation where the learner is competing for a high score.
■ Include elements of adventure and uncertainty.
■ Provide different levels of complexity that match player’s ability.
Instructional Games
Save the Math Apples
Help the monkey save the apples! Click
on the basket with the number to give
the answer. Keep clicking the basket to
add numbers to your answer.
Instructional Games
Jungle Jim and the
Donga Dinga Drums
This interactive game
encourages kids to
play with numbers and
multiplication concept
and win points as long
as he/she hits the right
number.
Problem – Solving
Definition
Problem-solving software is a type of content-free or content-based programs that places
emphasis on critical thinking, analysis, logic and reasoning via the presentation of set of data
or problematic event.
Features
■ Stress thinking processes rather than correct answers.
■ Expose students to a series of activities that would help teach the desired skills.
■ Help students work together in small teams.
■ Give students opportunities to see how information applies to actual problems.
■ Vary the amount of direction and assistance depending on the each student’s needs.
Problem – Solving
StressAlyzer
This program provides
students with many problems
in Mechanics of Materials to
solve. Students get immediate
feedback on whether they
solve each problem correctly,
and they are offered randomly
generated versions of similar
problems until they can be
solved correctly.
Problem – Solving
MS Excel
Excel one of the most
popular spreadsheet
programs that can used to
teach management
processes and enhance
problem-solving and
thinking skills in
mathematics and science.
Multimedia
Definition
Programs that support the interactive use of text, audio, still images, video and graphics and
manipulate them to support learning.
Features
■ Enhance text only presentations by adding interesting sounds and compelling visuals.
■ Engage a variety of learning modalities (visual, auditory and possibly kinesthetic) which can
appeal to various learner styles simultaneously.
■ Allow development of more engaging, persuasive presentations.
■ Focus practice of skills that support transfer of learning.
Multimedia
Scholar’s Desktop.
This program provides a
series of modules for
teaching, using a
combination of media.
Students can visit many
museums around the world
and explore many
environments as they visit it.
Multimedia
MS Photo Story
This authoring tool allows
students to create their
own digital stories using
text, audio and pictures
and export their projects
into a digital movie.
Teacher Utilities
8. Teacher Utilities
Definition
Non-instructional or administrative programs used to prepare instructional materials or organize, store, evaluate and report
information on pupils’ achievement and progress.
Features
■ Based on the principle of database management.
■ Manipulate classroom and examination data.
■ Permit the teacher to have untold amounts of information.
■ Reduce the amount of repetitive paper work.
■ Create and maintain lesson plans.
■ Create and print a school calendar.
Example: HeadMaster 2007 [www.acstechnologies.com/headmaster]

Teacher Utilities
Head Master
Specifically designed for teachers.
HeadMaster can handle grading, reporting,
and scheduling. From administration to
accounting to registrar duties, HeadMaster's
flexible, customizable interface provides a
complete solution for your school's office.
Creating
Educational
Website
What is a Website?
• a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital
assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s)1, usually
accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a local area network
(LAN)2
• A document, typically written in hyper text mark-up language
(HTML)3, which is almost always accessible via hypertext
transfer protocol (HTTP4).
Four Components
1. Site Address (Uniform Resource Locator)
a. domain name
.com (for commercial)
.edu (for educational)
.net (for network)
.mil (for military organizations)
.gov (for government organizations)
.org (for non-profit organizations)
2. Web host (puts your website on the internet)
• Ex.: ipage.com, namecheap.com, justhost.com, web.com,
GoDaddy.com, HostGator.com, others
Four Components
3. Website building software (develops and publish your website
on the internet)
3. Topic (refers to the content you wish to be published such as

classroom-related, personal, business, etc.)
The Making of a Good Design

Content is important, but content alone will not make your site
work.
The Making of a Good Design

Good Design is:
– Understandable
– Interesting
– Easy to use
– Uniform in look and feel
Done from a visitor’s point of view: WYSIWYW (What You See Is What You WANT)
Website Design Considerations

1. Decide What Type of Website You're Having
2. Define your Target Audience
3. Choose Your Content
4. Easy to search
5. Use a clean design, simple navigations, use larger fonts and
always have white spaces
6. Build a responsive site
10 Best Free Website Builder of 2019

Summary
• Constructivist teaching is based on the belief that learning occurs as
learners are actively involved in a process of meaning and knowledge
construction as opposed to passively receiving information.
• Learners are the makers of meaning and knowledge.
• One of the primary goals of using constructivist teaching is that
students learn how to learn by giving them the training to take initiative
for their own learning experiences.
• Educational technology plays an important role in meeting the goals
and objectives of project-based learning and facilitates the students’
exploration and reflection on the content.
References
• https://www.montclair.edu/profilepages/media/286/user/Use_
of_Technology_for_Constructivist_Learning_in_a_Performance
_Assessment_Class.pdf
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivist_teaching_methods
• https://www.papermasters.com/constructivist-learning-
environments.html

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A Continuing Professional Education (CPE) grant under the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) K to 12 Transition Program

Summer Camp on Educational Technologies for 21st Century Teachers

Technology in the Constructivist

JOY M. DY, MST-CS

• Constructivist Teaching Strategies

• Technological Tools for Constructivist Learning

• Creating an Educational Website

For the learning environment, the instructor is continually ADJUSTING

TEACHING STRATEGIES utilizing a constructivist approach

CLE Key Principles

the teacher facilitates a

Activities in Constructivist Classrooms

Use of Technology for Constructivist

Types of Instructional Softwares

Drill and Practice

Auslan Sign Tutorial

Friendly design, users do not need to

Example: HeadMaster 2007 [www.acstechnologies.com/headmaster]

3. Topic (refers to the content you wish to be published such as

The Making of a Good Design

The Making of a Good Design

– Uniform in look and feel

Website Design Considerations

10 Best Free Website Builder of 2019

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