Constructivists consider learning to be an individual and personal event. The following principles 1 are based on the work of various constructivist theorists and are offered as a framework for this discussion.
Learners bring unique prior knowledge, experience, and beliefs to a learning situation.
Every learner has experiences that influence his or her understanding of the world. Learning is internally controlled and mediated. Learners take in information, process it to fit their personal frameworks, and build new understanding. That knowledge construction occurs internally, in the private domain of each individual. Knowledge is constructed in multiple ways, through a variety of tools, resources, experiences, and contexts.