Constructivist theory

Sorry I have been away for a bit. My daughter brought my second grand child into the world. James Jackson is healthy and so is mom but it through my life into chaos for a bit. I have a 2 yo grandson who we were watching while mom was in the hospital. I am back now making up my work.
Week four’s learning strategies fit into the constructionist theory like a glove. In the constructionist theory students learn best when they build an external artifact or something they can share with others” (Laureate Education Inc., 2008). I teach science and I feel the best way to learn science is by getting your hands dirty and doing projects and experiments. This week the teacher was not as much a teacher but was a facilitator that helps the students learn by themselves by giving them activities and projects to do instead of listening to lectures all the time. When the students create an artifact it is a good way to incorporate social learning too. Constructing an artifact also opens up many uses of technology which is very exciting. Our resources this week talked about using excel and its graphing capabilities. This works out great for science. Students can graph their data and look for relationships in the data. I also like the students to create power points to present their findings. As I said earlier this theory and the related strategies fits science very well.
Resources:Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2008). Constructionist and Constructivist Learning Theories. Baltimore: Author.