EDUC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Metacognition, Differentiated Instruction, Cooperative Learning
28 Mar 2016
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Became dominant only in the last 50-60 years. Learners construct knowledge for themselves: therefore, to learn is to construct. Because learning is construcing, we must focus on who does the construcing (learning: the student, therefore, the student is at the center. Its called, construcivism, so what"s being constructed: new knowledge, but; no knowledge is separate from the person, the context, the experience, no such thing as knowledge that is out there". Students are like blank slates" when they are born. They have no prior ideas, values, mental structures, assumpions. Every ime you teach something new it is as if students have never thought before, and have nothing in their minds. Students should work alone, and listen silently all day: learning is independent. Teaching is like pouring data into people"s heads. Learning is like having something put into your head: learning is passive. As a teacher, you must help it new informaion into that structure.
