The reading starts out with a well know proverb: "Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember, Involve me and I understand." For me this is an important concept to understand when dealing with science. The reading talks about various key ideas that will aid a person in learning. For the subject of science there wasn't much in the reading that I didn't agree with. Science can't be taught by lecturing students on the properties of matter, for example; they need to see it first hand to truly understand it. Sure they can memorize what they need to know, but may never truly understand. Involving the students and allowing them to explore the properties on their own will give them a far better understanding of the properties then anyone could give them by talking about it.
One of the biggest key ideas that I got from the article is the idea of scaffolding. Giving students and opportunity to build towards more complex ideas is a great way to learn science or any subject. Continuing to add on to students prior knowledge and use what they already know in order to do that is a great way to teach science. Another aspect that was covered in the article is the idea of inquiry. Devising a plan, carrying out the investigation, refection on the investigation, make changes, test again, reflect..etc. The framework for constructivist theory is the same framework used for inquiry based learning in science. I have never really made that connection until reading this.
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