Key words:

Constructivism: a theory about how people learn that can help provide a framework

for Information Age learning.

Student-Centered Learning: the student plays an active role and may set his or her own learning goals and determine activities and resources that will help meet these goals.

Constructivism

Constructivist theory asserts that as students try to make sense of their experiences, they build their own knowledge in a structured format. The knowledge structures that students build can be individually constructed by the student or co-constructed as part of a social experience.

Constructivism (cont.)

According to constructivist theory, knowledge cannot be easily transmitted from teacher to student, and the prototypical model of teacher - centered learning – the lecture – won’t be very effective. Instead, students must build their own knowledge structures. students can

also build knowledge as part of a social experience as they interact with fellow students, the teacher, or others who are more knowledgeable.