Questions:
1. Describe two similarities between the traditional lesson and the constructivist one as described above.
-The students all took part in the measurement, just the understanding was different
-they were both based upon information in which the students knew nothing about so far in there life
2. What are two benefits and two drawbacks of the constructivist approach as described above? Why? In your opinion, are the benefits worth the costs? Explain your response.
-the students are learning the information by using critical thinking skills,
-all of the students are engaged and can have fun with this activity because in a sense they are in charge
-one drawback is that it's kind of like the blind leading the blind, they do not understand what measurment is so they're kind of just fishing and hoping
-another drawback could be time, this way uses a lot more time than say if it was the traditional way.
The benefits are worth the cost of time and other possibilities just because it gives the students great skills for future use. By allowing the students to "team" together and come up with possible ideas it really enables the critical thinking to occur. I think that having a good combination of traditional and constructivism is great because it will keep order and engage the students.
3. How does the constructivist lesson described above promote critical thinking? Give specific examples of critical thinking from the case study to support your response.
-it allows the students to make connections (really think) such as tommy did with his height, it allows that child to make a real life connection and also will help with problem solving.
-Just like mark had seen or heard of the horse hands for measurements he tried the same thing, used higher order thinking to solve a problem.
No it would not because the idea of authentic comes from a very traditional classroom and having the teacher tell what is the correct information.
Looks like you have a misconception about authentic activities. Look that term up again and see if you can come up with an example.
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