Re: Constructivist learning

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Tony Fadale (tfadale@pepperdine.edu)
Sat, 10 Apr 1999 10:39:15 -0700 

Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 10:39:15 -0700
From: Tony Fadale <tfadale@pepperdine.edu>
Subject: Re: Constructivist learning

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John & Tracy Knox wrote:

> Written text along with a good text is a reliable
> way to teach people. I have yet to see anything on the web that is as
> good as a well written text book.

John and Tracy, thanks for your honest opinion about constructivism and
your views about appropriate sources of information. I have a few
questions that will help me better understand your position. I hope
you have time to answer them. I think you will guess I do not agree
with you but I would like to understand why you think the way you do.

How do you teach students that the text book is not the only source of
information? Aren't you concerned you make authority figures out of
everything the students' read or hear such as other textbooks,
newspapers, network news, etc.? How do the challenges to these sources
of information come into the classroom? Is the teacher and his/her
sources of information the only ones allowed? How do you feel about
filters that are firewalls between students and their Internet access?

> Millions of people looked at the same phenomena as Newton before
> Newton but none of them figured it out. It took Newton to look at
> things in a new way.

Didn't Newton have to challenge existing information in textbooks? How
would Newton do that in your classroom?

Thanks again for sharing.

Tony Fadale

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