Assignment: Blog: Constructivist Learning Theory, Teaching, and Learning MD5 #6771

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.

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            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

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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 21^st 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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