a) What are the essential skills and/or
learning outcomes you want your students to know and be able to do that relate
to cognitive learning? Compare and contrast these skills with the
essential skills related to constructivism.
I want my students to be
able to build on their prior knowledge. I want them to be able to relate things
back to things already know and are comfortable with. I also want them to know
important methods for retaining information that may not be familiar to them.
Although, constructivism
would also emphasize metacognition (thinking about thinking), they are very different
in instruction. Constructivism looks at the mind in a different way than
cognitivism. A constructivist would say that my students are not building on
their prior knowledge, but that they are just changing their schema, or view of
the world, with the new knowledge.
It is a wonderful idea for our kids to build on their prior knowledge. I completely agree with that. It will benefit them greatly if they can relate back to things they already know and are comfortable with. I actually wrote about that in my own blog. I like how you worded your second paragraph, because I feel like it is worded differently than mine. It makes me actually look at things differently.
ReplyDeleteI actually wrote about this similar subject in my blog too. It is because so much of what we do in music is "copy and paste." We need to build off of what they already know in order to expand what they can learn. And I think that this concept can be used in many other subjects as well. I totally agree with what you said in your blog.
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