So what does this mean? How can I as a future teacher use this in the classroom? Is it just the process that makes the learning happen or the sharing of the learning?
In this article, Idit Harel, shares with us the theory of constructionist learning developed by Seymour Papert in the 1980s. Here Harel uses the example of when we as adults need to impart our knowledge to someone else, by teaching we learn the subject very well. My friends and I have discussed this before as one of the ways we learn. It is the same for children. If they work hard and learn and then share that knowledge with others it will stay with them for a very long time, maybe even for life.
As teachers if we encourage students in creating their own cyber space (whatever form that may take) and have them decide what they put in their space and then share it with a community, we can not only expand their knowledge but cement it firmly in place.
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