Educational discoveries

Seymour Papert discusses the difference between constructionism and instructionism in an extremely helpful way. This article was enlightening for me, giving me a better understanding of what constructionism is and how learning by doing is an important aspect of the e-learning subject. Skills already displayed in my blog such as the vodcast, podcast and comic strip can all be used within the classroom to carry this constructionist theme. Children can create and publish their own works, using existing knowledge and understandings to construct applications and further knowledge. Papert’s view that children learn best when they are active in the role of designer and constructor makes sense as you examine ther examples on  his website. The examples provided by Papert are definitely exciting, a little intimidating, but exciting. Papert stresses that he doesn’t want teachers to just copy these examples but to create their own examples of constructionism specific to their own students. I will certainly be thinking this through more!