Wednesday, October 1, 2008


Constructivism and inquiry are both really important in the ways people create relationships to learn specific information. For example to learn from inquiry you have to ask questions and listen to what the answers are from other people. Constructivism is when you try to build the bridge with what you have learned and fill in the gaps that you do not fully understand.

By using these ways to understand the information increases the chances of you actually learning the information in the way that you ask questions about things you do not understand and you connect the answers in your own way because of the links that are required and how everything has to be connected to something else. So if all you know is stuff about music you can get a basic understanding of math because you have to use numbers in music while you are counting the beats in the measures and the beats in measures can range from 2 all the way up to 16 beats per measure. You also have to watch how the conductor conducts to learn what beat you are on when you lose your count when you are resting or else you are going to be lost in the music and trying to find your way out in the dark.

By telling about my name card in class it was an experience on teaching because I was teaching the class about me which was interesting because of the things I had on my name card. I had a camouflage hat because hunting is a big thing within my family because the males in my family hunt, billybob teeth because a sterotype of WV is everybody has bad teeth, a fishing lure because the females in my family fish, pictures of local scenery that were both within 10 minutes of my house, ribbon because of where I am getting married in the not too distant future and I drew a cross and music notes because they are both very important to my life. My grandpa who passed away in February started the church I have gone to my whole life, and my other grandpa was a deacon at the church where my mom grew up. I put the music notes on the card because I have been around music my whole life, church, home, school, everywhere. Music has been a very large part of my life, I have been playing flute for 10 years this month. My mom has played piano a lot around me and my brothers and the only way I would fall asleep when I was little was to crawl under her feet while she was playing piano and then I would drift off to sleep.

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