Constructivism and Social Learning

This week's learning resources involved social learning theories. I really found it interesting to go through all of the websites provided for social learning. In my classroom, I use blogging as a social learning tool for my students. In this they can communicate with each other about ideas in class as well as grade each other's work. It is important to promote working in groups because chances are when the students are out of school, they will most likely have a job in which they will have to interact with people everyday. By learning how to cooperatively work in groups, we are teaching the students life skills which is also very important. The Voice Thread was another great way of showing the students a problem. You could put them into groups and then have them come up with solutions to the problem at hand. Social learning says that students learn from experiences and through each other and all of these are great ways that students can learn from somone besides watching a teacher in front of them.