Different Learning Styles based on Multiple Intelligences

Here's a good video on the different learning styles. Happy viewing!

Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences

Howard Gardner is the pioneer to Multiple Intelligences. Watch his video to understand better of what Multiple Intelligences is.

Radical Constructivism

Constructivism

What is Constructivism? What is Building knowledge? Watch the video below to find answers to these 2 questions.

Vygotsky's ZPD from You Tube

Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory

Lev Semenovich Vygotsky wrote on how a child's cognitive development is related to language and social interactions. Here's a video on my Master in Education assignment which might help you understand Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory better.

Sensorimotor ( birth to 2 years old )

This video shows how a child at sensorimotor stage will experience Object Permanence. Object Permanence is the infant's ability to recognise one object at a time or one location at a time. If the object is changed or hidden or the location is changed, the infant would not be able to accommodate this change and would still be looking the the object at the last place the infant found it, as shown in the video.

Pre-operational child ( 2 to 7 years old )

this video explains how a child at pre-operational stage thinks and process information.

formal operational child ( 11 years & above )

conservation of task ( 2 to 7 years old )

this video shows pre-operational child and a conservation task

conservation of mass ( 2 to 7 years old )

this video shows how a 4 year old doesn't have the idea of conservation of mass or space.

concrete operation - deductive reasoning ( 7 to 11 years old )

this video shows how children from 7 to 11 years old are able to use deductive reasoning.

concrete operational child ( 7 to 11 years old )

Object permanence ( birth to 2 years old )

Piagetian Theory

Here's a powerpoint presentation I did on Piagetian Theory for my Master in Education's Cognitive Development Course. I hope it will be able to help you in understanding how a child thinks and what processes goes on in a child's mind.

Jean Piaget's Stage Theory of Development

Piaget was among other things, a psychologist who was interested in cognitive development. After observation of many children, he posited that children progress through 4 stages and that they all do so in the same order. These four stages are described below.

The Sensorimotor Period (birth to 2 years)
During this time, Piaget said that a child's cognitive system is limited to motor reflexes at birth, but the child builds on these reflexes to develop more sophisicated procedures. They learn to generalize their activities to a wider range of situations and coordinate them into increasingly lengthy chains of behaviour.

PreOperational Thought (2 to 6 or 7 years)
At this age, according to Piaget, children acquire representational skills in the areas mental imagery, and especially language. They are very self-oriented, and have an egocentric view; that is, preoperational chldren can use these representational skills only to view the world from their own perspective.

Concrete Operations (6/7 to 11/12)
As opposed to Preoperational children, children in the concrete operations stage are able to take another's point of view and take into account more than one perspective simultaneously. They can also represent transformations as well as static situations. Although they can understand concrete problems, Piaget would argue that they cannot yet perform on abstract problems, and that they do not consider all of the logically possible outcomes.

Formal Operations (11/12 to adult)
Children who attain the formal operation stage are capable of thinking logically and abstractly. They can also reason theoretically. Piaget considered this the ultimate stage of development, and stated that although the children would still have to revise their knowledge base, their way of thinking was as powerful as it would get.

cited from : http://penta.ufrgs.br/edu/telelab/3/piaget's.htm

Jean Piaget - Father of Child Psychology

Piaget in his study, stated that a child learns in 4 stages. It is important for educators be it teachers or professors to understand these stages in order to understand how students learn. Once you know how a child thinks, then you can apply student-centered learning in your classrooms more effectively. View the video below to know who Jean Piaget was.