Constructionism vs Constructivism

[Judy Perry]

Mark,

I didn't read that into your work; my curiosity was simply piqued by the
stimulus of new educational learning theories (e.g., stuff they didn't
teach you in college but maybe should have!).

Judy

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Mark Greenberg wrote:

> 	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.