I created this MindMap using Google Drawing with two colleagues. Google Drawing is a great, user-friendly collaborative tool. I thought you might be interested in the issues and trends presented in the CITE Journal over the past three years. Click on the image to enlarge.
As a self proclaimed constructivist I was ever so glad to see that gaining traction. I do believe (without getting too philosphical) that true learning or better learning takes place when student (myself included) can "tinker" with things to see how they work before someone just does it for us. Some concepts lend themselves to tinkering more than others, but the idea of of struggling to understand something and the determination to keep struggling is the greatest gift any person could ever receive and one that we should all learn and pass on. Just a thought...
ReplyDeleteMayer & Alexander (2011) state, " There are four elements to constructivism- prior knowledge, social negotiation, self-regulation, and meaningful tasks. A challenge for constructivists, is to apply the elements in educational practice. A constructivist view brings students, their interests, and previous experiences and knowledge to the fore, which has consequences for instruction" (p. 364) Research on Learning and Instruction
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, learners must enage with the world they are trying to interpret, they must engage to make sense of something based on their perspective.