The program will guide participants with the integration of technology into the curriculum in order to support  Constructivist Learning Environments. 

The following six descriptors taken from Southwest Educational Development Laboratory  highlight teacher practices that help students search for their own understanding , rather than follow other people's logic.  

Learners bring unique prior knowledge, experience, and beliefs to a learning situation

 

Learning is internally controlled and mediated

 

Knowledge is constructed in multiple ways, through a variety of tools, resources, experiences, and contexts

 

Learning is a process of accommodation, assimilation, or rejection to construct new conceptual structures, meaningful representations, or new mental models

Learning is both an active and reflective process

 

Social interaction introduces multiple perspectives through reflection, collaboration, negotiation, and shared meaning

 

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