Constructivist Strategies for E-Learning (ETEC 530)

Reflection: ETEC 530 - Constructivist Strategies for E-Learning (elective course)

This course was difficult for me as I recall for many reasons.  The first was that when the course started I was feeling over-worked and stressed out.  I ended up having to play catch-up for the entire course and I don't really feel that the work I produced for this course was terribly good.  I am picky, but I am sure I could have put more effort into making the Constructivist lesson I produced make more sense and justify the use of Constructivism for this lesson much more.

Artifact: Critique of Miller, Schweingruber and Brandenbirg

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Abstract

I intend to analyze the article “Middle School Students Technology Practices and Preferences: Re-Examining Gender Differences” and show the flaws in the argument presented by Miller, Schweingruber and Brandenbirg.  One major flaw I will examine is the apparently poor selection of subjects for the testing, and some other flaws in the analysis.

Artifact: Final Assignment

Here is my final assignment for ETEC 530, which was to design a constructivist lesson.  

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Quotations

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

Howard Gardner

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

John Dewey

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialised abilities for thinking about a variety of things

Lev Vygotsky

The regular course was Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with; and then the different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.

Lewis Carroll

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Albert Einstein

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Socrates

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

Jean Piaget

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

C.S. Lewis

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