For behaviorists, strengthening learners’ cognition and response to things gives learners a habit to correspond to their knowledge. The learner can be matched with unique behavior through explicit or implicit means. Here is an example of a chart in early childhood. The word ‘blue’ corresponds to the blue part of the icon. Through repeated learning of the learner, it becomes a kind of conditioned reflex and a habit. When you see Blue, it corresponds naturally. blue.
For the cognitive scientist, the behavior is similar to the behavioralist, but in detail, the behaviorist is more inclined to use the established teaching thinking and model to lead the learner to learn knowledge, but the cognitive scientist The feedback of learning analyzes the differences in individual learning, guides learners by helping to discover their own advantageous and appropriate learning strategies, and generates new understanding by combining past and existing information.
Constructionist is the most effective way in my opinion. Everyone ’s different understanding of the same thing stems from his own experience and social experience. Older people generally have more social experience than younger ones. Younger age is more comprehensive and richer. Even for people of the same age, gender differences can affect understanding. Therefore, this method of teaching students according to their aptitude can make everyone have a different understanding and application of knowledge. This understanding and application are generated through their own cognition. Compared with the first two, I personally think that this educational model is more scientific and reasonable.
In a high school teacher planning a course on climate change, the behaviorist will directly teach the knowledge, the cognitive scientist will choose the appropriate learning method through the learner’s understanding of the weather changes, and the constructionist will learn The individual teaches the understanding of climate change in his own life and gives a scientific explanation based on the actual situation.
I personally think that I am the third school of constructivists.
Hi Wade Pan,
I enjoyed your perspective on the constructivist approach to being more scientific as it chose the best-suited approach for each learner and provided the learner with a richer opportunity to engage with the material. I did not see it as a scientific approach until you made that reference. I wonder how this plays into curriculum design and assessment and how the teacher needs to change the way they teach to give room for each student to display their own learning in their own ways?
I agree with you very much. In my opinion, constructivist learning theory is a very good choice. Constructivist teaching theory believes that teachers are no longer inculcators, but promoters and helpers of student learning activities; emphasize the creation of real-world situations related to learning, focus on students to solve real problems; focus on collaborative learning; focus on providing adequate resources . This has a great effect on students’ independent thinking.