Return-Path: <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h48Kx5C05193; Thu, 8 May 2003 16:59:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 16:59:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <393D5D39.3CABC466.0A349A3F@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:361] Re: from Tom Sticht - ALPD: Evidence-Based? X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 933 Lines: 11 Dear Debbie, Constructivism is the idea that a person reconstructs inside (the brain) what is experienced outside through the senses. For example, in the theater of the mind an individual can zoom in on visual memories--I say, "Think of a bear," and you do, then I say, "Focus on the bear's claws, are they curved or straight?" You will say they are curved because you have seen bear claws and and revisualize them. Marie Clay wrote a book, "Becoming Literate, The Construction of Inner Control." She describes this gradual process as the child through gradual and predictable steps learns to read. Because we know more about the brain now we can illuminate this process of the construction of patterns of neurons as the individual "learns" how to read. Apprenticeship is amenable to the idea of "constructivism' as the person gradually builds up knowledge of a skill through working with and observing a master. Andrea
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