Bruner- Life
The amount of years Jerome Bruner lived
What is 100 years?
In this type of learning students construct their own learning for themselves
This implication tests students' prior knowledge
What is a pre test?
The constructivist approach believed ___
What is that children construct knowledge through active experience with the world around them?
What is two years old?
This is the term used when teachers provide cognitive scaffolding that facilitates learning on the part of the student
This term is preferred to passive learning
What is active exploration?
Bruner believed that students should do this
What is that students should actively participate in the process instead of being spoon-fed information?
This is where he began his teaching career
What is Harvard University?
This type of curriculum revisits basic ideas, building a more complex understanding over time
What is a spiral curriculum?
Teachers should do these two things in a classroom according to Bruner
What is encourage questions and allow experiments?
These are the three types of knowledge
What are enactive representation, iconic representation, and symbolic representation
This is where he ended his teaching career
What is NYU Law School?
This mode is thinking based on physical actions, infants learn by doing
What is enactive mode?
Students should use this to find their own answers
What is prior/their own experiences?
Bruner believed that this was a key part of discovery learning
What is problem-solving
This is Jerome Bruner's nickname
What is Jerry?
This term is involves knowledge that is stored as language, mathematic symbols, or other symbol systems.
What is symbolic mode?
This what a teacher should act as in a classroom rather than a lecturer
What is a facilitator?
Bruner thought that this kind of learning involving asking questions and problem solving was vital in education
What is inquiry-based learning?