I think that constructivism would work in my future classroom because I think that the best way for students to learn is for them to become active participants in their learning and to be able to relate what they already know to what they are learning. I am majoring in integrated sciences and I think that constructivism is perfect for a science classroom because the only way for students to really comprehend science is by doing experiements and forming hypotheses.
Some people argue that constructivism causes children to just construct understandings that make sense to them, which can give them the wrong idea or conclusion about something. Yet, this does not happen in constructivist classrooms because the teacher is always there to help the children and to guide them on the right path. Children learn a lot better when they relate what they learned to real-life expereiences rather than just memorizing facts that the teacher lists off.
I think that this issue should be controversal, though, because I can see some people going to the extreme with this way of teaching. I can see classrooms where the students are on their own all day long and the teacher just sits back and watches. I do not think that this is right. Constructivism should be used but not for the entire school day. Some classes such as history, needs to be taught in the traditional manner at times because students do need to know dates and names of some major events and people that couldn’t be taught to them in a constuctivist way. Therefore, I think that the constructivist way of learning should be used, but the use should be limited.
Lastly, constuctivism and technolgy integration are so closely realted because they both allow students to gather their own information to make conclusions about the world around them.