SelForum 9 Task and Links:

Choose ONE of the seven areas listed below and comment. Minimum of 200
words, no maximum (but don’t strain beyond what benefits you).

This is an opportunity to think about your Capstone project. Or, take the
opportunity to reflect on the obligation to match teaching to learning style.
Issue three might relate to an organizational or corporate issue that might be
relevant to your situation. Item four relates to the challenge of effective group
work. Item five is related to applying constructivist principles to web
publishing moving from basics to more advanced levels of competence. There
are other topics that you might want to comment on at items six and seven.

As an organizing approach, consider using the 5Ps to develop your comments.

Please comment on the input of the person before you (or at least one
colleague’s input).

50 points total: 35 for input, 15 for comment.

1. Application of Constructivist Principles in Individual Capstone Projects.

Discuss the application of subject principles in your Capstone Project or a
training/educational/corporate situation of your choosing. We often see
references to a Constructivist approach in Capstone proposals that are basically
individual skill approaches. You may also address why Constructivist principles do
not apply.

Please answer item “a” and use the 5P rubric to address the “P” items in “b” so that
we can see how you are answering the issue.

a. Consider if learning by doing or group work evidences a Constructivist approach.

What are the essential elements of a Constructivist approach? Is the group working
to learn an objective standard or is knowledge being created by the work?
Response:

b. Consider how you are going to deal with:

(1)Presentation: How the subject is presented, the initial taskings, the motivational
element
Response: Do this for all.
(2)Practice: Will your audience need the same practice or will there by differing
levels of task readiness or Zones of Proximal Development
(3)Production: How will you verify learning?
(4)Posting: Will some form of publishing, sharing of information, certificate, or
other form of evidence to the group be required
(5)Participation/ Collaboration: Is there a knowledge creation event connected to
your objectives?

2. Metacognition: Learning Styles

Given the information in this guide, what is your take on being committed to teach to
each individual in your training or learning situation? Examine your commitment to
teach to the style of each learner. Can you do it? If so, how are you doing it? If you
have to design for 100 people, will you have 100 lesson plans? Or even six lesson
plans for a typical DLI class, each hour? What does Hattie say about matching
teaching to the learner? (Verify by checking his three-time review of effect sizes.
Link is below.) Or does using multiple modalities make sense?
https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/learning-styles-preferences/
Chick, N. Learning Styles. Retrieved from:
https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/learning-styles-preferences/

3. The role of constructivist learning in scenario planning.

Instructor note: This is a look at the relevance and application of constructivist
principles in corporate planning centered around strategic planning at Shell Oil.
http://www.cil.net/admin/ckeditor/filemanager/userfiles/files/constructivist_lear
ning_.pdf
Chermack, T. J. & van der Merwe, L. (2003). The role of constructivist learning in
scenario planning. Retrieved from:
http://www.cil.net/admin/ckeditor/filemanager/userfiles/files/constructivist_lear
ning_.pdf

4. Group work: Using cooperative learning groups effectively

https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/setting-up-and-facilitating-group-wor
k-using-cooperative-learning-groups-effectively/
Brame, C.J. and Biel, R. (2015). Setting up and facilitating group work:
Using cooperative learning groups effectively. Retrieved [todaysdate] from
http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/setting-up-and-facilitating-group-work-
using-cooperative-learning-groups-effectively/.

5. Team-based Learning
https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/team-based-learning/
Brame, C. Retrieved from:
https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/team-based-learning/

6. Postmodern/Constructivist Scenarios
This blog posting discusses the issue that the challenging of absolute truths can lead
to inaction due to the desire to avoid anything that might turn out to be an
overarching concept.
http://culturalmaturityblog.net/2012/01/postmodernconstructivist-scenarios/
Johnston, C. Adapted from Cultural Matruity (sic): A Guidebook for the Future.
Retrieved from:
http://culturalmaturityblog.net/2012/01/postmodernconstructivist-scenarios/

7. Was Mao Zedong a Constructivist?

Retrieved from: Mao Tse Tung Quotations from Mao Tse Tung; 22. Methods of
thinking and Methods of Work.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch22.htm