Constructivist Learning Theories:
Constructivism in education has
roots in epistemology. The learner has prior knowledge and experiences, which
is often determined by their social and cultural environment. Learning is
therefore done by students' “constructing” knowledge out of their experiences. (
Wikipedia)
Instructional
Strategies: Instructional strategies are techniques teachers use to help
students become independent, strategic learners. These strategies become
learning strategies when students independently select the
appropriate ones and use them effectively to accomplish tasks or meet goals.
Technology
tools in education: Technology has the ability to
enhance relationships between teachers and students. When teachers effectively
integrate technology into subject areas, teachers grow into roles of
adviser, content expert, and coach. Technology helps make teaching and
learning more meaningful and fun.Feb 12, 2015
Relationship connections with the above 3 subjects is number one,
the student. The connection to how the
information (regardless of subject) is taught by the teacher. For a student to gain education from what is
being taught a foundation of that knowledge needs to be set. That steppingstone is set by the teacher with
strong information to the student. In the
21st Century, technology is a great source to start with.
The teachers need to have a strong technology skill to share that
with students. I thought I had a strong
base of technological knowledge to share with my students. Able to take what I know, share, and teach my
students that information and they have taught me also.
Students in my personal finance course produced a final
project. Many of my students used only
their cell phones to achieve this goal. I
am very impressed with those students that did the entire 20 plus page project
on with the use of their cell phones.
This showed me that they have deeper technology knowledge than even they
know about.
Students used their current knowledge of the internet and search
tools, along with what their handheld technology could do, to produce some exceptionally
good pieces of work. I did instruct them
to turn on their spelling and grammar tools for their mobile apps. I walked them through on how to do this. I also instructed them to save their mobile
work to whatever cloud service they had available to them. If they did not have or want to use their
cloud service, I had them save it to GoogleDocs. CYA, always save your work with producing
documents and saving them for submission.
ISTE standards used by students for creating work for submission
using technology: In Personal Finance the final project was to research items
and create a collection of items they would need or want if they had a million
dollars to spend. The final project is
called, The Million Dollar Scrapbook.
Students and teacher both employed the standard of Citizenship. The other standards were used also, Citizenship
was used the most by researching information on the internet. Students used their research skills and their
writing skills producing their work submitted for grading.
Students used the Hour of Code day to explore finance-related
coding applications like, Cryptocurrency: Explore the Bitcoin Ledger. After an hour of coding and exploring
programs like this, I had students researching more about cryptocurrency and
bitcoins.
I look forward to
both these activities with my next Personal Finance
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