EDUC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Legitimate Peripheral Participation, Learning Sciences, Hard Stuff
2 Oct 2018
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Constructivism is just one part of it psychological constructivism. Piaget did believe, social interaction can promote knowledge construction. Social interactions are internalized and self- constructed: very important. Knowledge is not just help in the mind, it is help within networks across people: contributing and sharing information. More (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)er(cid:374)ed (cid:449)ith the de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of shared k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge, su(cid:272)h as s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e, religio(cid:374), . See knowledge as manifested through a network (not just one person) Radical constuctionivists propose that there is no single objective reality. Contrast with the position that there is a single reality, but we can only construct imperfect interpretations of it. It is specific to the setting that it is used/learned. Cognitive apprenticeships: you are learning as if you are doing it- take on real problems and try to solve them. Elements that support knowledge construction: how should we teach if we are constructionivisits.
