Social Constructivism
Social Constructivism
*Sorry about the formating the ITLS site is not maintaing the formanting I used in this post.*
Learning is growing, improving, expanding and refining. To do that requires stretching and good instruction can do just that. I like Vygotsky’s words, “Therefore the only good kind of instruction is that which marches ahead of development and leads it; it must be aimed not so much at the ripe as at the ripening functions” (Vygotsky, L.,1962, Thought and Language).
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Submitted by Brian Allred on Wed, 07/22/2009 - 10:58pm
Bllog #11 - Learning Definition
Learning is........ well, that's hard to say. We are nearing the end of our Learning Theories course and it is interesting to see how my entries have changed, or not in some cases, since the beginning of the summer. But, learning is, in my opinion, difficult to summarize. Is it simply new knowledge that is taken into a learner's mind, or is it that with tweaking existing knowlege, or is it something else entirely. Well, not to step on anyone's toes, but I feel that the better question to answer this week is "how can a teacher best affectuate learning".
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