Bruner- Life
Vocab
Implications
Main Ideas
100

The amount of years Jerome Bruner lived

What is 100 years?

100

In this type of learning students construct their own learning for themselves 

What is discovery learning?
100

This implication tests students' prior knowledge

What is a pre test?

100

The constructivist approach believed ___  

 What is that children construct knowledge through active experience with the world around them?

200
Bruner was this age when he gained sight?

What is two years old?

200

This is the term used when teachers provide cognitive scaffolding that facilitates learning on the part of the student

What is scaffolding?
200

This term is preferred to passive learning 

What is active exploration?

200

Bruner believed that students should do this

What is that students should actively participate in the process instead of being spoon-fed information?

300

This is where he began his teaching career

What is Harvard University?

300

This type of curriculum revisits basic ideas, building a more complex understanding over time

What is a spiral curriculum? 

300

Teachers should do these two things in a classroom according to Bruner

What is encourage questions and allow experiments?

300

These are the three types of knowledge

What are enactive representation, iconic representation, and symbolic representation

400

This is where he ended his teaching career

What is NYU Law School?

400

This mode is thinking based on physical actions, infants learn by doing

What is enactive mode?

400

Students should use this to find their own answers

What is prior/their own experiences?

400

Bruner believed that this was a key part of discovery learning

What is problem-solving

500

This is Jerome Bruner's nickname

What is Jerry?

500

This term is involves knowledge that is stored as language, mathematic symbols, or other symbol systems.

What is symbolic mode?

500

This what a teacher should act as in a classroom rather than a lecturer

What is a facilitator?

500

Bruner thought that this kind of learning involving asking questions and problem solving was vital in education

What is inquiry-based learning?