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Constructivism 2

This document discusses different ways of organizing knowledge and concepts. It describes concepts as feature lists, prototypes, and exemplars. Concepts as feature lists involve defining features that characterize all instances of a concept and correlational features that are present in many but not all instances. Prototypes represent a typical example of a concept. Exemplars allow for variability within a concept by providing a variety of examples. The document provides tips for teachers to help students learn concepts effectively, such as providing clear definitions, examples, and opportunities for learners to identify and provide their own examples of concepts. It also discusses schemas as organized bodies of knowledge and scripts as schemas about predictable events of an activity.

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Constructivism 2

This document discusses different ways of organizing knowledge and concepts. It describes concepts as feature lists, prototypes, and exemplars. Concepts as feature lists involve defining features that characterize all instances of a concept and correlational features that are present in many but not all instances. Prototypes represent a typical example of a concept. Exemplars allow for variability within a concept by providing a variety of examples. The document provides tips for teachers to help students learn concepts effectively, such as providing clear definitions, examples, and opportunities for learners to identify and provide their own examples of concepts. It also discusses schemas as organized bodies of knowledge and scripts as schemas about predictable events of an activity.

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Organizing

Knowledge
Tree
Dog
Wedding
Rodrigo Duterte
Beach
It is a way of grouping or categorizing
objects or events in our mind.
Concepts as Feature Lists
 Learning a concept involves learning
specific features that characterize
positive instance of the concept.
Concepts as Feature Lists
 Defining Feature
It is a characteristic present in ALL
instances.
Bicycle
Concepts as Feature Lists
 Correlational Feature
It is one that is present in many
positive instances but not essential for
concept membership.
Concepts as Prototypes
A prototype is an idea or a visual image of
a “typical” example. It is usually formed
based on the positive instances that
learners encounter most often.
Paris

Eiffel Tower

Louvre Museum
Concepts as Exemplars
Exemplars represent a variety of examples
where it allows learners to know that an
example under a concept may have
variability.
Making Concept-learning
Effective
 As a future teacher, you can help
students learn concepts by doing the
following:
Making Concept-learning
Effective
 Provide a clear definition of the concept.
 Make the defining features very concrete
and prominent.
 Give a variety of positive instances.
 Give negative instances.
 Cite a “best example” or a prototype.
 Provide opportunity for learners to identify
positive and negative instances.
 Ask learners to think of their own example of
the concept.
 Point out how concepts can be related to
each other.
Schema
 Itis an organized body of knowledge
about something or it is like a file of
information you hold in your mind about
something.
Script
It is a schema that includes a series of
predictable events about a specific
activity.
Applying Constructivism in
Facilitating Learning
 Aim to make learners understand a few
key ideas in an in-depth manner, rather
than taking up so many topics
superficially.
 Give varied examples.
 Provide opportunities for quality
interaction.
 Have a lots of hands-on activities.
 Relate your topic to real life situations.
 Do not depend on the explanation
method all the time.
Thank you for listening!

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