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Idea: Although lecturing is somewhat not
hands-on and could be sometimes “boring,” it is necessary for children to
learn. There are many different stages
in Piaget’s and Vygotsky’s theories that children learn from. Because of this, lecture should be included
in the many ways that children learn.
Activity:
Last week, I added homework to the end of my blog because I felt that it
reinforced children’s knowledge of the subject matter and lessons being
taught. Also, homework is a way of
having children independently practice what they learned without the help of
their teacher. This week’s activity that
I would add would be group work. After
the teacher teaching the lesson, I think that the students should be assigned a
group to work with on a worksheet or project that is somewhat difficult. The reason that I think it should be somewhat
difficult is because it should be challenging, but with more than one student
working together on it, it should be doable.
Reflection:
I basically completely changed what I said in my first blog about “lecture type
teaching.” After reading about the
theories, I decided that although lecturing students might be boring, it is
essential to teaching if it is also paired with different types of teaching,
learning and reinforcement.
Alexandra,
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, I cannot see your images! Let me know if you need assistance with this. Why do you think lecturing is a good activity for learning? What ideas from either Vygotsky or Piaget would support this you think? Both of them are constructivists but each have very different ideas of how learning happens. For instance, based on Piaget's ideas, do you think lectures would be useful for students in pre-operational stages? Why or why not? Highlighting the students' age group would also be useful for you as well since you will design different activities for different age ranges.