Dr. Alice Christie's Useful sites/Constructivism

I chose to speak about my readings on Dr. Alice Christie's Constructivist Learning Resource dealing with Constructivism, which is a learning theory that supports several principles:

Learning that involves: risk-taking, creative thinking, and critical thinking. The creation of environments that: facilitate learning and provide opportunities for self-reflection and self-evaluation, learning that is socially geared and is fostered by collaboration and specific context, learning that is reflective and incorporates feedback from teachers and peers and students and teachers can learn through their mistakes. Technology is a tool to facilitate learning and is not the focus of learning but a collaboration of many things.

I enjoyed reading into these principles because we fit or will fit into each of these roles in our careers. Knowing that we can help encourage children/students to think past what they know and are doing and broaden their minds is a reward to a teacher in itself. Each person we teach has their on level of learning so fostering an environment and being part of a team that heightens the learning process is great. There is so many technological advances out there today to help us, help the students, so we have a jump on the learning process.