Social discussion of CS in K-12

["Wolske, Martin B" <mwolske AT illinois.edu>]

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On Sep 5, 2014, at 12:51 PM, Wolske, Martin B <mwolske AT illinois.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> My colleague, Colin Rhinesmith, has taken lead in authoring a paper considering theoretical foundations informing our Community Informatics Studio class. At one point in our conversation, he recommended we consider Kincheloe’s "Critical Constructivism”, and recommended a primer Kincheloe’s written. After reading the first couple of chapters, I think there’s much to like to describe not only my teaching approach at GSLIS, but also the work happening at Kenwood. Constructivism is rooted more in Piaget, while constructionism is rooted more in Papert. Both draw from Dewey. Critical constructivism is more focused on social construction of knowledge, building from the ways the history and interest of learners direct construction of knowledge in collaboration with others. Papert’s constructionism is more about how learners engage in conversation with artifacts and how those conversations foster self-directed learning. Together, I think they more fully inform my work, and I suspect the work at Kenwood.
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> I’m attaching a scan of chapter 1, plus the section of chapter 2 that outlines the teacher knowledge base when working within critical constructivism. I’m also attaching the submitted draft of Colin and my paper if anyone is interested in how we have incorporated these and other influences into our teaching pedagogy at GSLIS. Since it’s just a submitted draft, please don’t distribute to others without first touching base with me.
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> I’d love to hear your thoughts on this!
>
> — Martin
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