Goal 2 PED 244

Above is a picture of some of my classmates participating in another cooperative activity during my PED 244 class.
The activity was called “moving the world”. We were each divided into four teams and placed in each corner of the gym. The task was to move the world around the gym without touching the ball with your hands. As the activity progressed the instructor would add more difficulties for example, we would have to walk like a crab or we could not use our hands or our feet to move the ball. As you can see one of my peers was trying to move the ball by blowing it with air from his mouth.
During this activity I learned about constructivism. I feel that this was constructivism because we had to each build upon our previous knowledge of what we knew we could do to move the ball by following the given directions. It was constructivism because as we participated, we learned from our previous experiences and watching our classmates perform the skills. This resulted in us being able to develop a technique, was better than the first.

This is under, understanding of content; goal two, because I have developed a better understanding and in depth understanding of constructivism which is a part of the content for this class. I know that constructivism is like scaffolding; you start with a base of knowledge and you constantly build upon that as learn and participate in educational experiences. As an educator I will keep in mind that when I receive my students they will each already have some knowledge because I know that no one has a clean slate as I learned during the balls and ramps activity in my education class.