Week 4: Digital- Constructivism vs Constructionism:

This week there were many different aspects that got me thinking. One of them was the difference between constructivism vs constructionism. Constructionism is the hands-on-learning. Children learning by doing. In relation to the activities in class, we were able to explore this by learning about Makey-makey, an interactive tool of creating music and other aspects. We were able to explore the tool and create music for ourselves.

Constructivism is the notion of building on prior knowledge and applying next steps for learning, based on prior learning experiences. In class, we build on prior knowledge and played on the different learning strengths and backgrounds that we had within in our group. Some of us had played piano before, so we could create music using our knowledge of what songs we learnt.

So, in the classroom, what activities and learning tasks are centred around these two concepts?

We also explored the tool 'Scratch' using the following website, as a way for learners to develop coding and computational thinking skills. 

Scratch Website