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Constructivism and Vygotsky´s theory by Juan Carlos Meza

Constructivism and Vygotsky´s Theory      

 By Juan Carlos Meza

Definitions

Language is the system of communication that can be combined between words symbols or letters. Language is the way we express different ideas, knowledge and emotions.. Language is only used by us the humans because no other species can on our planet. Language is verbal which means we use words to communicate, symbolic because we use it through written texts and readings.

Learning is when you receive different types of information and your brain retains that information and saves it so later on you can go back and use it. People learn in different ways through their sight, hearing or touching etc.

The teaching process is much combined with the learning; since we are born we have different teachers in front of us. Only when we are introduced to the school is when we interact with others and we depend on them to give us knowledge in a formal way.


Restating the theory

Constructivism is not a new concept; it was first supported by John Dewey in the last century. Jean Piaget, who based his view of psychological development of children such that a child constructs understanding through many channels: such as reading, listening, exploring and experiencing his or her environment. Lev Vygotsky, a Russian psychologist and philosopher and is associated with the social constructivist theory. He believed that the influences of cultural and social contexts played an important part in learning and supports a discovery model of learning. 3. Constructivism is child-centered, rather than curriculum based. Constructivism focuses on knowledge construction, not knowledge reproduction It is a belief that one constructs knowledge from one's experiences. The ideas and interests of children drive the learning process. Teachers are flexible- they are the facilitator, students construct new understandings using what they already know; they will construct from new learning experiences. Learning is active rather than passive; Children may need different experiences to advance to different levels of understanding. 

Bibliography

Hoover, W. A. (3rd de August de 1996). SEDL. Recuperado el 1st de March de 2016, de The practice implications of constructivism: http://www.sedl.org/pubs/sedletter/v09n03/practice.html

 

Constructivism and Vygotsky´s theory by Miryen Vélez

Constructivism and Vygotsky´s Theory      

By Miryen Vélez

Definitions

Language: The language is the form by which we communicate to each other, either through sounds or signals, i.e. in the case of babies when crying they make themselves understood.

The persons that have hearing disability, they are communicate by signs.

Summarizing, we can say that the language is the forms that we use for communicate with others people.

Learning: Learning is the acquisition and/or skills that we have as referent to something, either language and/or topic specific, we acquired learning day to day, second to second.

We learn every time that we read, talk, listen and see, for It is important to mediate  on each topic that we see and practice because when I do not practice, we cannot acquire skills for obtain an appropriate learning.

Teaching: The teaching, I think that are all mechanisms use for that the a person acquired skills such as writing, reading,  listen and speaking for this we use tools  such as computers, videos, songs, films, news, also used book, webcam.

The meaning of education is extensive, because all the people teach in one way or other, for we must have careful with each of our actions, because everything we do, can be considered as a lesson for another person.

Summarizing, education is everything we do.


Restating the theory

The constructivism says that the human learning is built, that  mind of people made new knowledge from the basis previous teachings.

For the constructivism the learning is the result of a process of staff- collective construction  of the news knowledge, attitudes from existing in cooperation with mates and facilitator.

Examples:

1.       A facilitator gives us a reference guide to language and learning, teaching, where everyone reads and exposed the ideas according  to read and knowledge they have, it is share in the group searching a deeper concession and clarify doubts, of course wiht support of the facilitator.  

2.       A mother enters a room of yours children and they show pictures where each says the name of each animal in English, she observes carefully the behavior of their children, after read them a story “jungle animals”, then, the children give, their point view of the  understand  and  doing drawings of the animals and build a short story.

The mother finish happy because saw that his children understood the topic “animals”

Bibliography

ECURED. (28th de February de 2016). Constructivismo. Recuperado el 28th de February de 2016, de http://www.ecured.cu/Constructivismo_%28Pedagog%C3%ADa%29