Constructionism vs Constructivism

Mark Greenberg markgreenberg at cox.net
Thu Jul 28 08:03:24 CDT 2005


	Please don't read too much into the word "Constructionism" in the 
readme file for my Combinations stack.  The book I just finished used 
both terms "Constructionism" and "Constructivism," so when I typed the 
readme, I typed one instead of the more accepted other.  I did not 
intend to imply Papert over Piaget or any other flavor of the idea that 
students build their knowledge internally rather than gather it in 
predetermined chunks from outside.
	Also, I did not mean to imply that my stacks are particularly 
Constructivist in nature.  They're not.  I hope that my designs will 
lean more that direction in the future.


Mark Greenberg
English Teacher


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