Recently I worked with a tool called ToonDoo, which allows you to create your own cartoons. This is my cartoon on the constructivist theory, of which Piaget and Vygotsky are the most well known theorists. The main idea of constructivism is that children learn, and gain meaning and understanding from interacting with their enviroment through play and experimentation, and creating schemas that they accommadate and assimilate (add to, or revise) as they gain more information.
Vygotsky adds the belief that children also need meaningful interaction with others, both peers and adults, to properly learn and construct these meanings. In the classroom this means that you need to ensure you provide a rich enviroment for students to learn in, full of developmentally appropriate materials, and lessons that allow for optimum learning. And since social interaction includes adult provide oppurtunities for students to learn from both each others experiences as well as yours.
Vygotsky adds the belief that children also need meaningful interaction with others, both peers and adults, to properly learn and construct these meanings. In the classroom this means that you need to ensure you provide a rich enviroment for students to learn in, full of developmentally appropriate materials, and lessons that allow for optimum learning. And since social interaction includes adult provide oppurtunities for students to learn from both each others experiences as well as yours.
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