Class 5: Piaget’s Constructivism

Class 5: Piaget’s Constructivism

				1	Readings Due

				2	Annoucements

				3	Video

				4	Website

				5	Learning Tasks

				5.1

				5.2

				5.3

				5.4

				5.5

				5.6

				5.7

				5.8

				5.9

				5.10

				6	Questions to Consider

				6.1

				6.2

				6.3

				7	Review Questions

				8	Piaget’s assumption

				8.1

				8.2	Child develop increasingly sophisticated thinking by maturation and making sense of experiences

				8.3	Stages are universal, qualitative-distinctive, and abilities within a stage are interrelated

				8.4	Change in ideas happen by assimilation and accommodation.

				9	Break

				10	Piaget’s periods

				10.1	Sensorimotor

				10.2	Preoperational

				10.3	Concrete Operation

				10.4	Formal Operation

				11	Break

				12	Criticism from Information Processing and others

				12.1	Abilities are not highly interrelated

				12.2	Underestimating abilities

				12.3	Universality of stages

				12.4	Some abilities can be deliberately taught

				12.5	Left out of textbook: The role of emotions and motivation

				12.6	Was Piaget social enough?

				13	Essay Question

				13.1	Essay. Remember: you may refer to your notes and each other but not the text. Ask me to clarify.