This blog is dedicated to teachers who would want to understand how their students think, learn and process knowledge - Norhayati Maskat
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Different Learning Styles based on Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences
Constructivism
Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory
Monday, August 11, 2008
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.
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.
Piagetian Theory
Jean Piaget's Stage Theory of Development
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.