Oral Presentation of Update 2: Jean Piaget and Constructivism

Update 2 : Piaget and Constructivism

Simple Constructivism

What is constructivism? Constructivism is the way children and adults accumulate and learn and create knowledge. There are many instances of constructivism, but the main one is experience. Are learners having the same experiences outside of school? So simply put the experience which is percieved through different paradigms or 'lenses' of a student manifests knowledge to the learner. This lense is different with each student.

Guidlines for this lense of learning are similar to the scientific method. Hypothesis ,testing the hypothesis, and gathering data. This is a very 'hands on approach', for instance, I remember in my education, that we needed to apply a hypthesis to gravity. Do heavier objects fall faster than lighter weight objects? With this we made our hypothesis and tested it out using different objects to see if the time from deployment and weight caused a difference in velocity. We were active agents in our attainment of knowledge. Therefore we are allowed to critically think or make a solution to the problem. This is really interesting that two of the most prominent ideas of thought both came from Piaget to Paulo Freire. Creating a problem and then solving it, a problem has some meaning toward the learner.

Image shows four perspectives on learning based upon theoretical principles. Instructional methods associated with each, adjacent to respective quadrant. Orange quadrants represent a student-focused learning approach, blue instructor-focused.

Constructivism is one theory out of many, but it is evidence based that learners who learn through constructivism do better than behaviorist and or cognitive learners. Cognitive processing is an indicator of learning here in this model.

Even some of the most notable philosophers had a similar idea, take Kant for instance on how experience forms knowledge, "Kant’s Constructivism is the strongest and most plausible theory of knowledge. Kant takes two main theories of knowledge (rationalism and empiricism) and joins them together to make better sense of what type of knowledge we can have. He does this by first: maintaining the idea of a posteriori knowledge that arises from experience as the first way we acquire knowledge but also supporting the rationalist idea of a priori knowledge from reason, a kind of reason that comes from experience."

References

Constructivism. (n.d.). Retrieved July 7, 2020, from http://phenomscience.weebly.com/blog/constructivism

Ertmer, P. A., & Newby, T. J. (2017). Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Constructivism. Pressbooks.Com; Pressbooks. https://lidtfoundations.pressbooks.com/chapter/behaviorism-cognitivism-constructivism/

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