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TO LEARN THIS IMPORTANT ONLINE CONTENT:
Answer the embedded questions—you can write into the slidesFollow all links to videos and other contentTake the test at the end to see if you understood the contentReview ideas and content you did not understandI WILL EXPECT YOU TO LEARN THE IMPORTANT IDEAS ABOUT PIAGET AND VYGOTSKY ON YOUR OWN—MAKE AN APPOINTMENT WITH ME IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT.
Learn about Lev Vygotsky
The Vygotsky Test—see what you know now, see what you know at the
end• List Vygotsky’s 4 big ideas• Explain each of the big ideas in your own
words• Define:• Zone of Proximal Development• More knowledgeable others• Scaffolds
Vygotsky’s Big 4 Ideas
Lev Vygotsky, 1896-1934
1. People learn best if their learning is guided by a “more knowledgeable other.” (They don’t learn as well without guidance.)
2. People learn best if they are given challenging tasks that gradually get harder (as long as they have enough guidance during the task.) ZPD idea.
3. Language is really important --Language guides learning because thoughts are in the form of internal language.
4. Culture is a learning tool because a person’s culture helps teachers know how to make learning content and delivery culturally meaningful.
1. Talk though a problem using language to guide solution.2. Give a problem and “talk-through” the problem while
child watches.3. Now give child a problem, adult gives prompts, child
responds.4. Child works through novel problem while talking out
loud.5. Child works through novel problem while whispering.6. Child works novel problem silently.
IDEA #4Learning is strongly influenced by culture
Culture:”The set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or group,” (Wikkipedia, 2010).
2 General Ways CultureImpacts Learing
1. Culture influences the process of learning—the way learning happens.2. Culture determines what knowledge is learned.Related term: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy—matching content and process of teaching to culture of learner
Culture and learning processes
• Preferences for oral learning• Preferences for social learning and for learning in
cooperative groups• Cultural differences in the role of questions in learning• Cultural differences in beliefs about the role of teachers• Cultural differences in valuing different kinds of
knowledge. • “Hidden rules” of dominant middle-class culture
predominates in public schools.
Culture and Learning Content
• How do the unique characteristics of families (linked to cultures of ethnicity, SES, etc) determine what knowledge students have?
• Examples: – Children of migrant families high knowledge of
agriculture– Native American children knowledge/respect for
environment– An art teacher using Day of the Dead as a theme
for an art project rather than Thanksgiving
EXAMPLE: HMONG CULTURE
Cultural Processes Cultural Content
Story-telling as historyNo written languageCooperative groupsRespect for elders—affects role of teachers
Role of mothers and grandmothersWork in ginseng agricultureImportance of tapestriesYears in refugee camps
The Vygotsky Test—see what you know now, see what you know at the
end• List Vygotsky’s 4 big ideas• Explain each of the big ideas in your own
words• Define:• Zone of Proximal Development• More knowledgeable others• Scaffolds