Users must have a pdf reader installed and configured on their web browser to view pdf files. Across the nation educators are working on plans to restructure education. Not surprisingly, their findings have implications for all disciplines. For two years the researchers observed, interviewed, and documented. Following this, they presented the teachers certain principles of learning which their observations had reinforced.
Students are constructors of knowledge.
Understanding occurs not when students are presented with the name of a concept but when they organize, manipulate, and apply the concept's constituent bits of data. The opposite of this, factual recall or demonstration of an already mastered skill, provides little opportunity for cognitive growth. Students learn best when they produce , perceive , and reflect . In production the students perform or create. In perceiving they use and hone perceptual skills by studying closely the elements of their works and of others.