1. From my experience I agree with the view of constructivism. I believe that we create our own knowledge and make sense of new knowledge by using our own personal experiences to construct our opinions views and ideas on a certain subject. I believe that a teacher can stand at the front of a class and teach a lecture and two students get to completely different things because of the background knowledge of each student.
2. I think that it is important for every student to know about disequilibrium because it would allow them to understand that everyone goes through similar experiences as they learn new unfamiliar material. It is this disequilibrium that allows us to strive to learn so that we can restore balance.
3. The idea of assimilation is really interesting to me because it shows that students can somewhat categorize things into general groups with out much instruction. I also think that it is important for us to place new items into these already existing structures so that we might eventually understand the difference and push the information towards accomodation.
4. It is amazing to me at how many different "folders" or schemes the human brain must have. There aren't very many computers out there that can automatically evaluate, restructure, and create new groups in order to fit all of the new information into system correctly.
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16 years ago
I really liked that you talked about past experiences and "schemes". It is amazing what an effect those can have on how and what you learn. You are totally right about how two students could listen to the same lesson and get two completely different things out of it. I guess, as teachers, we really need to be aware of the backgrounds of all of our students so that we can accommodate what we teach accordingly.
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