Constructivist theory has several fundamental principles that apply to teaching and learning
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- 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
From the digital learning & teaching class website I got the fundamental principles of constructivist theory and HOTS from Blooms Taxonomy. These stuck out to me the most and I wanted to share them on my site. I feel students should have control in what they are learning and how teachers should be coaching the students to learn new information.
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