On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 14:15, Seth Woodworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Inspired by Sameer's recent conversations with a pair of Montessori > Kindergarden teachers. I went to talk to Cynthia Solomon of the OLPC > Learning team. We got to talking about the theory of Activities and a few > other topics. Eventually she showed me this snippit from the Media Lab's > Future of Learning Group: > > Constructionism > > We are developing "Constructionism" as a theory of learning and education. > Constructionism is based on two different senses of "construction." It is > grounded in the idea that people learn by actively constructing new > knowledge, rather than having information "poured" into their heads. > Moreover, constructionism asserts that people learn with particular > effectiveness when they are engaged in constructing personally meaningful > artifacts (such as computer programs, animations, or robots). > > http://learning.media.mit.edu/projects.html > > I thought that this explination was concise and really interesting. I would > love to explain this to people who want to desige activities, just to give > them a little snapshot of the concept. Does anyone have a problem with this > deffinition? Does anyone have an improvement?
Me likey! I'm not in the classroom, nor well-versed in academic jargon, but that captures the spirit of what I gleaned from my first encounter with the word here on these lists. It also syncs well with how I think I came to love working with computers in educational settings. That, and as you've mentioned: concise. -- ". ! 1 |" -- Rene Magritte's computer _______________________________________________ Grassroots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
