ED 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Metacognition, Egocentrism, Mental Model
16 Feb 2017
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Pri(cid:374)ciples of piaget"s theory of cog(cid:374)itive develop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t: children are curious, active and motivated learners, children organized what they learn from their experience. Schemes; groups of actions or thoughts (jell-o green and giggly and yummy, anything that is now green giggly and yummy is now jell-o) Operations; grouping schemes: children adapt to their environment. Accommodation; modify or create new scheme: interaction with the physical environment is critical. Nature of the physical world; shape, texture, color. Refine understanding; force, pressure, inertia: the process of equilibrium promotes complex thought. Disequilibrium forces schemes and operations to be re-considered and a new mental model constructed. New understanding is built on the old. Need a catalyst to trigger disequilibrium before new learning will occur: children think qualitatively different at different stages and ages. Educators in p-6 classrooms may encounter this stage in students with developmental delays. Use language to represent words and objects.
