Constructionism

Constructionism is a philosophy of education in which children learn by doing and making. They explore and discover instead of being force fed information. More on this topic can be found by exploring Google using keywords such as "constructionism", "education", "philosophy". See for instance openworldlearning, Seymour Papert's website, http://www.papert.org , and the wikipedia article on constructionist learning. Constructionism is implemented on the OLPC XO in the form of collaborative discovery.

== History and Examples==

Books and notes +/-

• The Language and Thought of the Child (Piaget, 1923) "The question which we shall attempt to answer in this book may be stated as follows: What are the needs which a child tends to satisfy when he talks ?"
• Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (Papert, En, '94)
• The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer (Papert, En, '94) ...
• Constructionism (Harel and Papert, En, '91). Full text of Chapter 1, Situating Constructionism.
• Jaillissement de l'esprit and L'enfant et la machine à connaître (Papert, Fr)
• Being Digital (Negroponte, En, '96)

Alan Kay and his Squeak project have done a lot to make tools available to teachers who want to develop constructionist educational materials. == Historia y ejemplos ==

((educación-literatura)) </ div> Alan Kay Y su Squeak proyecto ha hecho mucho para hacer herramientas disponibles para los profesores que quieren desarrollar material educativo construccionista. Alan recently gave a keynote at EuroPython demonstrating how kids can learn constructively. Alan recientemente dio un tónica en EuroPython demostrar cómo los niños pueden aprender constructiva. One of the great pioneers of the practice, long before the term, was University of Pittsburgh's sociologist Omar Khayyam Moore, who built his "Edison Talking Typewriter" to teach two-year olds to read and write simply by reinforcing aspects of their spontaneous behavior. Uno de los grandes pioneros de la práctica, mucho antes de que el plazo, fue la Universidad de Pittsburgh del sociólogo Omar Khayyam Moore, que construyó su "Edison Hablando de escribir" para enseñar de dos años de edad a leer ya escribir simplemente reforzando los aspectos de su comportamiento espontáneo. Prof. Howard Peelle of the Education School at the University of Massachusetts has written about his experiments with APL in elementary school. Prof Howard Peelle de la Escuela de Educación de la Universidad de Massachusetts ha escrito acerca de sus experimentos con APL en la escuela primaria. The idea is to let children play a game, then learn to make simple adjustments to game play, and progress to full programming. La idea es permitir que los niños juegan un juego, y luego aprender a hacer ajustes sencillos para el juego, y el progreso a la programación completa. IBM once sponsored a program to support APL for a whole elementary school. IBM una vez patrocinó un programa de apoyo a APL por un conjunto de la escuela primaria. There does not appear to be a single Best Computer Language for elementary school students, though BASIC is popular. No parece ser un mejor lenguaje informático para estudiantes de la escuela primaria, aunque BASIC es muy popular. Python, APL, LISP, LOGO, Smalltalk, and many many others have also been used. Python, APL, LISP, LOGO, Smalltalk, y muchos otros también se han utilizado. It would be useful to bring the resulting knowledge together. Sería útil para llevar los conocimientos obtenidos. It is clearly impossible to settle the question based only on the stated preferences of adults who don't know all of the languages concerned, that is through rwars. Es claramente imposible resolver la cuestión basándose únicamente en las preferencias declarado de los adultos que no saben de todas las lenguas en cuestión, que es a través de rwars. In any case, Python has been chosen by the OLPC to be the base language of the laptop. En cualquier caso, Python ha sido elegido por la OLPC a ser la base de lengua de la computadora portátil. For an overview of various ways in which people have applied Python to education, check this link http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/edu-sig/ Now that the XO laptops are in the hands of kids, why not see what they have to say? Para una visión general de diversas formas en que personas han solicitado Python a la educación, comprobar este vínculo http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/edu-sig/ Ahora que el XO computadoras portátiles están en manos de los niños, ¿por qué no ver lo que tienen que decir? Go ask Rufus for instance. Ir pedir Rufus, por ejemplo. We will eventually read reports of the results from Nigeria and Peru and other countries, but for now, a little boy in England says it all quite eloquently. Vamos a leer la larga informes de los resultados de Nigeria y el Perú y otros países, pero por ahora, un niño en Inglaterra lo dice todo bastante elocuente.

See also

• Learning Learning parables.
• Constructivist Schools
• Jean Piaget, founder of Constructivism
• Lev Vygotsky, independent discoverer of Constructivist ideas
• Seymour Papert, founder of Constructionism
• Jerome Bruner, pioneer in cognitive psychology, with a focus on ways of constructing meaning
• NB: Constructivism is not 'Edutainment'; see
• Edutainment? No Thanks. I Prefer Playful Learning
• Wikipedia article: Constructionism (learning theory)
• Wikipedia article: Constructivism (learning theory)
• Wikipedia article: Constructivist teaching methods