This is our brief presentation about learning theory Constructivism for class EME 2040.

1. CONSTRUCTIVISM

2. CONSTRUCTIVISM
 Associated by many psychologists such as Jean
Piaget (1896-1980), Jerome Bruner (1915-?), Lev
Vygotsky (1896-1934), and John Dewey (1859-
1952).
 These psychologists all believed through
constructivism, a person builds his/her learning
ability/process overtime through experience and
surround knowledge.

3. CONSTRUCTIVISM
 By definition, constructivism is based on a type
of learning in which the learner forms, or
constructs, much of what he or she learns or
comprehends.
 In other words, constructivism is how we change
the way we think and learn as we grow older.
For example, one might finds a school subject
very difficult to learn when they were young
but as they grow older they might change their
way of thinking and through experience finds
that subject easier and maybe as a career
major.

4. CONSTRUCTIVISM
 Through constructivism, teachers’ main goal is to
support students in their way of understanding and
find strategies of making them become “expert
learners”.

5. CONSTRUCTIVISM
 Ideally, in a classroom, the student is the
explorer, digging and explore what they need/want to
learn and how to do it. While in the other hand, the
teacher is like the guardian angel guiding and giving
them suggestions and instructions to help them reach
their goals.

6. CREDITS
 Presentation creators: Lam Vu, Anders Lanza, and Nicholas Leath.
 Gary Shelly, Glenda Gunter, and Randolph Gunter. “Teachers
Discovering Computers Integrating Technology In A Connected World
Seventh Edition”. Course Technology, Cengage Learning. (2012): 266-
272. Print. 7 April. 2012.
 Picture credit (slide 4) -
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/constructivism/index
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