Difference between constructivism and Constuctionism
In education, Piaget described Constructivism as being the process whereby students constructed their own unique systems of knowing, in consequence of which the teacher should focus on this individual process of internal construction rather than standing at the front and spouting their own models.
Seymour Papert, a student of Piaget, expanded on this to describe Constructionism in terms of helping the student produce constructions that others can see and critique.
In this educational frame, then, Constructivism is more cognitive and Constructionism more physical.
Constructionist learning is inspired by the constructivist theory that individual learners construct mental models to understand the world around them. However, constructionism holds that learning can happen most effectively when people are also active in making tangible objects in the real world. In this sense, constructionism is connected with experiential learning and builds on some of the ideas of Jean Piaget.
St learn by constructing or making, it provide experience and satisfactory of achieve something, an artifact, proof tha learning has taken place….meaningful learning
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o achieve a better balance between emphasis on computational skills and problem solving skills in teaching and learning and in assessment ;
o Widen the repertoire of teaching and learning approaches to facilitate the use of investigations and problems in authentic situations (provide more teaching methods, eg: use calculator to check answer); and
o Help students, particularly those with difficulty learning mathematics, develop greater confidence in doing mathematics.
The use of calculators created a computational advantage and more often resulted in the selection of a proper approach to a solution in problem solving. Students in elementary schools who used
ü calculators possessed better attitudes and had
ü better self-concepts in mathematics .
ü There were significant differences in problem solving , computation , and conceptual understanding , favouring students who used calculators to those who did not.
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