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Teacher as Guide

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Principle 4. Teacher as Guide:

 

    When students are active meaning makers, learning is effective (Marlowe and Page, 1998).

In such environments, constructivist teaching supports students’ integration of prior learning

and experience with academic content (Kincheloe, 2005).  Learning, therefore, occurs in authentic

contexts in which learners can identify relationships, ask questions, and enhance the effectiveness

of conceptions and strategies to make new meaning (Yilmaz, 2008).  Such learning is a process in

which the teacher, rather than just transmit information, plays a role in creating a climate conducive to

cooperative and collaborative learning (Nanjappa and Grant, 2003).

 

    How does the teacher as guide metaphor enable the integration of web 2.0 technologies? How

might web 2.0 technologies better enable the teacher as guide metaphor?  How might a web 2.0

tool enable learners as active meaning makers? As active meaning makers in the World Wide Web,

what opportunities are required to enable students to integrate prior and new learning?

 

Part A of our wiki looked at broad constructivist principles and identified considerations

for practitioners seeking to root web 2.0 integration in constructivist theory. The remainder of our

wiki further explores the questions identified in this short introduction to a few broad

constructivist principles.

 

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