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Yilmaz, K. (2008). Constructivism: Its Theoretical Underpinnings, Variations, and Implications for Classroom Instruction. Educational Horizons, 86(3), 161–172. https://bruinlearn.ucla.edu/courses/206185/modules/items/7353956

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Constructivism

If you’d like to see more concrete examples of how constructivism translates into classroom practice, this helpful series of videos demonstrates a teacher delivering the same lesson using constructivist, cognitivist, and behaviorist techniques.

Just as there are a lot of theories about how we learn, there are a number of theories about the best way to incorporate technology into the learning process. SAMR and TPACK are two acronyms you’ll frequently encounter. Here’s an article that explains these models.

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Thursday

Du Bois, Data, and Double Consciousness (1)

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Introduction: Data and the Matter of Black Living. (2022). In A. Womack, The matter of Black living: the aesthetic experiment of racial data, 1880-1930. University Of Chicago Press. https://bruinlearn.ucla.edu/courses/206185/modules/items/7354024
Du Bois, W. E. B. (1903). Of Our Spiritual Strivings. In The Souls of Black Folk. A. C. McClurg and Co. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/408/408-h/408-h.htm#chap01

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If you’re interested in getting up to speed on Reconstruction, you might enjoy these two podcast episodes, which move quickly and conversationally through the major events: History is US: Radical Reconstruction, You’re Wrong About: Reconstruction, with Jamelle Bouie.

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