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Title: Sponge Activity (


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Sponge Activity(Soaks up time that would
otherwise be lost!)
  • While you are waiting for class to begin,
  • list some opportunities that you can think of for
    students to practice the six strands of English
    Language Arts
  • within a unit on volcanoes!

2
Our Observations of Students
  • How they learn
  • Participation
  • Preferred activities
  • Personalities
  • Other
  • The invisible child

3
Summary of Key Ideas
  • Social Constructivist theory
  • (Constructivism)
  • Construct
  • So what?

4
Jean Piagets cognitive theory of learning
  • Modification of cognitive structures
  • in response to
  • interaction with environment

5
e.g., concept horse
  • Schema/Schemata (file/files)
  • Accommodation
  • Equilibrium
  • Disequilibrium
  • Assimilation
  • Cognitive dissonance
  • So what?

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Lev Vygotskys sociolinguistic theory of learning
  • 1. Language is a tool for learning
  • 2. Knowledge is socially constructed
  • the zone of proximal development
  • the enabling other
  • able to do more difficult tasks with
    collaboration
  • So what?
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