Sponge Activity (

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Sponge Activity(Soaks up time that would
otherwise be lost!)

• While you are waiting for class to begin,
• list some opportunities that you can think of for
  students to practice the six strands of English
  Language Arts
• within a unit on volcanoes!

2
Our Observations of Students

• How they learn
• Participation
• Preferred activities
• Personalities
• Other
• The invisible child

3
Summary of Key Ideas

• Social Constructivist theory
• (Constructivism)
• Construct
• So what?

4
Jean Piagets cognitive theory of learning

• Modification of cognitive structures
• in response to
• interaction with environment

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e.g., concept horse

• Schema/Schemata (file/files)
• Accommodation
• Equilibrium
• Disequilibrium
• Assimilation
• Cognitive dissonance
• So what?

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Lev Vygotskys sociolinguistic theory of learning

• 1. Language is a tool for learning
• 2. Knowledge is socially constructed
• the zone of proximal development
• the enabling other
• able to do more difficult tasks with
  collaboration
• So what?