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So they jazzed up the story with all of that "Huff and puff and blow your house down."

And they made me the Big Bad Wolf. That's it, the real story. I was framed.

But maybe you could loan me a cup of sugar?

A. Wolf		  
 

Constructivist Learning Design

Laurie Bundy, Keith Deiterle, Beth Bradnick, Marcia Towers

 

Overview

Constructivist Learning Design (pdf)

 

Interactive Learning Experience

CLD Template (pdf)

CLD Point of View Activity (pdf)

 

Resources and Links

Gagnon, G.W., & Collay, M. (2006). Constructivist learning design:  Key questions for teaching to standards. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. The text provided a blank template and examples of the Constructivist Learning Design (CLD). The examples where divided into the following six areas Situation, Groups, Bridge, Task, Exhibit, and Reflection with a potential timeframe associated for each division.

 

Marlowe, B.A., & Page, M.L. (2005). Creating and sustaining the constructivist classroom. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. The required text for the class provides the educator the fundamental basis of a constructivist classroom.  The framework provides vocabulary and technical advice to help support constructivism.  Examples are also provided within the text.

 

Gagnon, G.W., & Collay, M. Constructivist Learning Design.  Retrieved 12th June 2007 from:  http://www.prainbow.com/cld/cldp.html

The website was developed by George W. Gagnon, Jr. and was easy to access and navigate.  The articles available gave further, albeit more concrete, explanation of the Constructivist Learning Design with the six elements.  Each element was broken down into questions proposed by the author for the teacher to explore.

 

Brooks, Jacquline (2006) Learning Among the Mandates, The Constructivist,17(1). Retrieved 12th June 2007 from:
http://www.odu.edu/educ/act/journal/vol17no1/brooks.pdf

The article discussed general statements of Constructivism within the classroom such as “Value the Student’s Point of View” and how to work along with the mandates.  The author also brought up another way to examine the education process through wonder, error, and justice.  This process holds the educator responsible to challenge the students by keeping the information “alive”.

 

 
       
 

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