To be an effective teacher, you need to be an effective learner.
Creating digitally capable, multi-literate learners is a challenge for today’s teacher. Weaving together elements of literacy, assessment and planning is a necessary skill and art for classroom educators. To learn effectively, elements of teaching can be woven into the process and product.
This week's focus will be on professional leadership.
This week's focus will be on professional leadership.
- How will you continue to develop your own digital teaching and learning?
- Where will you model your leadership in this area when on placement or in the classroom?
- When will you share all that you know - through what you do, say and create?
- Where can you find opportunities to showcase what you know?
Concepts about how teaching and learning develop are based on the theory of constructivism and constructionism. These were developed and explored by Jerome Bruner, Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky. Each theorist applied the concepts of how people learn within their particular contextual background. These theories were applied by Seymour Papert with his early work with computers and learning. |
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Constructivist theory has several fundamental principles that apply to teaching and learning
- learning needs to be grounded in meaningful, real world tasks
- context, content and social engagement are essential elements
- instructors’ roles include coaching, mentoring and scaffolding the learner and learning
- learners control, mediate and self assess their own learning
- knowledge is constructed – building new knowledge on foundations of prior learning
- action and reflection are applied to learning tasks
Constructionism is a foundational theory to the work being done in the classroom with coding and making spaces. Today you will 'construct' your understanding of either one of these current technology movements in education. You will tinker and try some elements of one of these shifting grounds in the classroom. Remember that reflection will be an ending point for this knowledge building 'activity'.