Learning Log (Ch. 10)

What?
Today in class we talked about social constructivism. This topic was hard for me to understand. The metaphor for social constructivism is a video projector, because it is recording everything that people do and then students mimic or copy what they see. The definition of learning for this theory is, interpersonal process that may or may not lead to behavior change. We talked about reciprocal causation and how all three factors are all involved. We talked about the power of expectation, which is if the students get reinforced or punished for a behavior depends on what they expect to happen next time they display that same behavior. We talked about the Bo Bo Doll I think that is what it is called. And how the children watched an adult beat this clown doll and then they were put into the room with the doll and they did the same thing to the doll. This is a case of Modeling. We talked about modeling, self-efficiency, self-regulation, and vicarious learning. We made PowerPoint's and presented them to the class.

So What?
This information is very important because it gives me an opportunity to explore these different aspects of social constructivism. I think that social constructivism is a theory that is very useful to me as a future teacher, because it employs the way that children learn by watching others.

Now What?
Now that I know this information I can become a more well rounded person. I like this l\theory because I think that it will be easy to implement, because the students are always watching you and wanted to act just like you. That can be a good thing and a bad thing. It keeps us on our toes. I can now use the social constructivism theory in my classroom.