1. Constructivism
How we learn
Paul Dennison

2. Knowledge is experience, everything else is just information.
We are surrounded by information artefacts books, web-pages, hand-outs
but experience???
You cant buy it, cant swap it, cant steal it, cant down-load it, cant plagiarise it.
Experience belongs to YOU.
Experience is PERSONAL.
Learning is PERSONAL.

3. Learning IS personal.

• No one can do it for you.
• 4. You build your own.
• 5. Its a creative process.
• 6. You change the inside of your head.

BTW - there are no shortcuts.

7. Teaching
Iteration
Process
Of
Transmission
Product
(Knowledge,
expertise, etc)
Product
(Interpretation,
understanding,
application
of knowledge
Person:
Academic
Professional
Person:
(The learner,
their history
& hinterland)
Process
(learning styles
& preferences
Interaction
Learning
Locating the Scholarship of Teaching (McNay & Culwick 2001)

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17. Learning takes place through the active behaviour of the student: it is what he does that he learns, not what the teacher does. (R.W Tyler)

18. Constructivism Learning is personal
Each of us constructs makes sense of our own version of reality our personal knowledge.
Constructivism is the dominant ism in Education today
Its a creative process.
Its active it isnt passive.

19. Constructivism Learning is personal
Each of us constructs makes sense of our own version of reality our personal knowledge.
This explains why Educators (us!) want to achieve more active learning and self-directed learning with our students.
It explains why harnessing students creativity is so effective in HE.
It also explains why assessment is important, as a corrective check on wrong (constructed) learning.

20. Follow up and find out more about:

• Jean Piaget and the cognitive school.
• 21. Social constructivism and Vygotsky.
• 22. Einsteins famous quotation Knowledge is experience.

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