Brooklyn Gulbransen EDSC 3000 (Ed Psych)

Mrs. D has been working with her students on learning how to do research on the internet. Her students are in 7th grade and have not had to evaluate websites for their use in a research project before this year. Mrs. D's 7th grade students believe that everything that is on the internet is good information. In order to teach her students about evaluating websites Mrs. D has taught the kids the mneumonic device CRAP test in order for them to remember the steps they need to take. She has used the dual-coding theory by using the students phonological loop by telling the students over and over again aloud what each letter in the CRAP test stands for and how they would test the website fore each of those aspects and using the students viso-spacial sketchpad by giving visual examples of both good and bad websites so they know what they are looking for. The students are activating their central executive system to combine what Mrs. D has told and shown them about the CRAP test in ord...

I have not seen any use of constructivism in any of the classes that I have observed but I did get to experience one teacher that taught the way of the modern constructivist. My 6th grad teacher was the best teacher that I can remember. She would always use authentic activities in our classroom hoping to keep us engaged and learning. Next to Chinese and Spanish lessons she would have us work on a letter to the government in problem-based learning activity or use a project-based activity about saving the whales to teach us math concepts. I know that it took her a lot of work to come up with the activities that we did and it was certainly impressive because 6th grade was Elementary for me.