CD 350 Lecture 4: CD 350 W4D2 Lecture 4
Document Summary
Correcting children: never say this is wrong". Homogenous culture: not comment on mother"s who work, not list christmas as a holiday. Piaget: you have your own ideas. Schemes and schemata: interaction with environment. Given di erent sized straws: decided himself to order them in size, stephanie. Noticed conservation: decided herself that the amount of water didn"t not change. Having wonderful ideas is the essence of learning. Kindergarten teacher handout: starts lesson with a question, encourages children to answer her questions, doesn"t turn down children"s ideas, lets the children run the discussion. Conclusion: children do not have a built-in intellectually, children need to be given the opportunity to have wonderful ideas, children will not thrive in a set of intellectual processes. Children need to really think about something to learn: the more he is allowed to explore the more information he has for his schemas.
