Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Post 7
Vygotsky's theory of children cognition was based upon the idea that children learn better when being guided by a more skilled individual. An example of this theory could be a child learning to tie their shoes. First, a parent would suggest that their child learn to tie their shoe and help by walking them through the steps of tying their shoe, this is an example of apprentice in thinking. Second, children will work in their guided participation, which would be a parent tying the first knot and helping the child tie the second one. Next, the children would be encouraged to tie their shoe by themselves. The parent could help tie one shoe for them, and the second shoe the child could try to do themselves, this is an example of scaffolding. Hopefully by the end of this theory the child would have progressed or be able to tie their own shoe.
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Scaffolding is a wonderful things to know being a teacher, parent, or any other guide for children.
ReplyDeleteI liked how you gave examples to each one of his concepts. It really helps get a better understanding of each of them.
ReplyDeleteI liked how you used one thing (tying shoes) throughout the descriptive process. I think it shows that each one of Vygotsky's theories can be applied to one task, rather than each theory would be more beneficial to separate tasks.
ReplyDeleteI also like the example you gave for the developmental activities. This is something almost all children go through eventually, where not all kids are given the chance to help with cooking or whatever.
ReplyDeleteYou explained and gave very good examples! It helped me better understand the concepts.
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