We should be designing lessons for our students which support the construction of knowledge and which encourage any creativity in a student as well as help them develop their problem solving skills. Students should also be taught to be resilient. The following should be considered when planning instruction for our students;
Is Based on Internal Negotiation a process of articulating mental models, using those models to explain, predict, and infer, and reflecting on their utility (Piaget's accommodation, Norman and Rumelhart's tuning and restructuring.)
Is Based on Social Negotiation a process of sharing a reality with others using the same or similar processes to those used in internal negotiation
Is Facilitated by Exploration of Real World Environments and Intervention of New Environments processes that are regulated by each individual's intentions, needs, and/or expectations
Results in Mental Models and provides Meaningful, Authentic Contexts for Learning and Using the Constructed Knowledge should be supported by case-based problems which have been derived from and situated in the real world with all of its uncertainty and complexity and based on authentic realife practice
Requires an Understanding of its Own Thinking Process and Problem Solving Methods
problems in one context are different from problems in other contexts
Modeled for Learners by Skilled Performers but Not Necessarily Expert Performers
Requires Collaboration Among Learners and With the Teacher
the teacher is more of a coach or mentor than a purveyor of knowledge
Provides an Intellectual Toolkit to Facilitate an Internal Negotiation Necessary for Building Mental Models
(Jonasson, [On-line])
So when looking at our elearning tools one should check if the tool can help the teacher meet the above requirements for designing their instruction.
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