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Implications of Constructivism in my Professional Journey

In our recent class, we had learnt about concept and theories of knowledge and learning. The skills or things acquired by a person through his/her experiences or education is called knowledge, whereas improvement in the acquired skills or knowledge taken place because of interaction of learner with its environment is called Learning. In this session we also discussed about three major theories of knowledge and learning which are as following:

• Behaviourism
• Cognitivism
• Constructivism

All these theories explain the mode of learning and factors which influences it. It also justifies the role of memory in learning and how learning is transferred from teacher to learner.

I, always, believe in Constructivism theory of knowledge and learning, which states that knowledge is actively constructed by the students for themselves. It was drawn out of Cognitivism. According to Vygotsky-Cultural-historical theory, cognitive development or construction of knowledge requires social interaction or past experiences of the students. Constructivist theory puts more emphasis on social interaction among people and its can easily be implicated by giving group work opportunities.

In my professional journey, I preferred teaching students by constructivist approach in which I always gave them chance to work in teams so that social interaction may be encouraged. I perceive, a group of people with common interests and goals, share their experiences and enhance their knowledge. Group presentations and project-based learnings induces more social engagement and results in improvement in any skill.

Nowadays, I encourage students to reflect their own learning processes so that they may be more independent learners and will be self reliable learners. That is how I keep adapting to new strategies and techniques in my classroom for the betterment of my students and maintain dynamic nature of teaching and learning.

For this blog post, I have been though  Constructivism – Teaching in a Digital Age (opentextbc.ca)

I have also read The nature of knowledge and the implications for teaching

I have watched for Implication of Constructivism Constructivism in Education (youtube.com)

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Educational technology: Invent and advancement of Technology has made everything doable and possible and this is universally applicable platform, which play significant role in every sector. Education and teaching is not an exception.

Means of teaching changed over the years. Initially, it started with oral communication which was replaced by number of other consecutive means over time. Its has taken a huge leap from oral communication to the webinars, using high speed internet, computers, projectors etc. Over head projectors has made it easy for learners to understand the concepts and teachings as visual effects make learning more impactful and effective. Though it has made education easy and accessible easily, still mode of delivery of education is oral means only.

Educational technology simply means application of technology and wisdom in the field of Education. Modern technological medium includes cables, internet etc. has eased in teaching industry.

Oral communication used to be oldest mode of education that was taken over by written communication with the invention of writing. Writing has a long history from traditional to printing press. Internet based learning was induced by development of internet and cables. Transmitters brought new revolution in this field that ultimately spread education all over the world using broadcasting and video conferencing. Computer based learning and computer networking is nowadays prevailing in universe.

For this week, I have gone through Tony Bates’s A short history of Educational Technology

I have also read Neil Postman’s article on Educational Changes

How to Use Education Technology (youtube.com)