Enhancing Education Through Technology

Check out my Voicethread created for my students Biography project! For this project students were allowed to choose a person to research according to their own interests an backgrounds as long as that person was involved in a rights movement in the 20th or 21st centuries. Students were also allowed to choose the product they would create to demonstrate their learning.  Projects ranged from heavily creative, to heavily artistic to ones that were more like essays.  https://voicethread.com/share/10757733/  

Students learn by doing.  That is the basic belief in Constructionist Learning Theory. Constructionism is the belief that children learn best by building an artifact and then sharing it with others (Laureate Education Inc., 2015).  It is the process of creating that allows students to either assimilate or accommodate their new knowledge with their previously held schemas to regain the equilibrium that the incorporation of new information had unbalanced (Laureate, 2015).  In order for students to truly learn the content being taught they need to be actively engaged in the learning process not passive receptors of information (Orey, 2010).  They do this by either changing the interpretation of experiences to fit what they already know or by developing new ways of thinking or looking at things (Laureate, 2015).  As educators it is our role to provide the opportunities for students to have these experiences.  In the Constructivism Learning Theory it is the belief that students work to