Month: January 2025

Hi Zeah!!
My learning and instruction style is also constructivist. I also like a more hands-on approach to topics as well as relating content through lived experiences. I wish my teacher would have made activities such as acting out different historical events like yours did because I remember struggling to try and learn off powerpoints and trying to memorize historical dates and events in high school. I liked your reflection on how university mostly aligns with cognitive theory, I totally agree! I sometimes find it difficult with memorization at the university level and all of the discussion posts for most classes I’m in.

https://zroberts.opened.ca/category/edci335/

Hi Simran! 

I really enjoyed reading your reflection. I can’t imagine learning a new language as an adult, I have friends who have done it and it is much more difficult than when you are a child learning it. I have a similar experience with this, I learned French all throughout school and I now as an adult could only maybe say a sentence or two in French which is crazy because I did it my entire life, it just goes to show how if you don’t continue to practice a skill you will have to relearn it.

I want to be an elementary school teacher; my instruction style would take a more constructivist approach because younger students absorb more information when they are exposed to learning a topic through real-world application and their contribution to the lesson or learning. I also personally enjoyed it as a kid and still remember some hands-on experiments I did that stuck with me forever. These experiments are what I remember from specific units in science, math, social, etc that helped me engage in class and remember specific concepts. My current instruction style is constructivist because teaching through constructivism allows students to retain more information learned within a classroom setting through lived experiences and activities so they can then take the knowledge they learn and apply it to their lives outside the classroom. I prefer to learn more constructively because I like hands-on activities. I always liked it when teachers explained concepts using real-world applications I could relate to through experiences I had already encountered in everyday life. This would help me remember concepts, and I would think back to the activities and conversations during a test or exam to remember the concept. 

The learning outcome being taught is “Teaching the different senses and how to use them.” A way that I would use my constructivist instruction is to set up different stations around the classroom with different substances (ex, cinnamon) so that students would learn what senses to use as well as how to use these senses to try and figure out what the substance was in front of them. Students would then be able to find connections in their own world to what they were learning in the classroom regarding senses. 

This is an interactive way that I would teach this learning outcome because students would get hands-on experience learning their senses so they can use them outside of the classroom and in the real world. This is a topic that I always remember learning about and an activity I remember doing in elementary school that I enjoyed. It was a fun and engaging way for students to understand this specific concept.

Ertmer, P. A., & Newby, T. (2018). Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Constructivism: Comparing Critical Features From an Instructional Design Perspective. Foundations of Learning and Instructional Design Technology: Historical Roots and Current Trends. https://edtechbooks.org/lidtfoundations/behaviorism_cognitivism_constructivism

https://sgill335blog.opened.ca/post-1-learning-motivation-and-theory/?unapproved=2&moderation-hash=422c61eb8a69ecfe5ef24fd0d1cd3d0c#comment-2

My Name is Ella Meldrum! I am in my third year of University and just moved to Victoria from Edmonton AB.

In my spare time I rock climb, play basketball, and do paint by numbers. I am very athletic, outgoing and adventurous.

I have 3 little Havanese puppies, and have another one on the way.

I am majoring in Sociology and minoring in Education. After I graduate I am going to apply for the after degree in Education. The dream is to drive my convertible Volkswagen Beetle to my very own grade 4 classroom as a teacher.