The Many Faces of Constructivism

Head Number 2. Naum Gabo. Tate Gallery

building

piecing together prior

knowledge with new

scaffolding

order into chaos

The Essence of Constructivism

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 Dewey
Montessori
Vygotsky

Piaget
Bruner

Glasersfeld

The Constructivism Cocktail

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ConceptMap
collaborator
autonomous

problem solver

doer

The Constructivist Learner

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 paradigm
amalgam
behaviourism

amorphous

The Polarisation of Constructivism

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Classroom is student-centered and not
lesson-centered

The good
Ownership of learning.
The Good
Lifelong way to approach
new learning.
The Good
"Learning is an active process of
meaning-making based
on experience."

The Good
Students rely on group-thinking

The Bad
 Time consuming.
Individualized instruction
The Bad
Standard curriculum
suffers.
The Bad
Tech Integration
"my students are empowered to
document their world and seek
answers to their questions all by
themselves"
-Tahireh Thampi
"the speed and ease by which they can create and
manipulate multiple graphs will allow them to
develop a relationship between the equations and
go from exploring to understanding without me
telling them the right answer." - Scott Hahn
"allowed students to use
Spanish in a comfortable
way"
-Alicia Brown
 technology opens
countless possibilities for
a constructivist
classroom
Steffe, Leslie and Gale, Jerry. 1995. Constructivism
in Education. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates.
 The Constructivism classroom:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR9LqmT0k-U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=S0s_qxJDuas&playnext=1&list=PL69B7A01B9E42
B183&feature=results_main

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