Group Project #3: Constructivism using GoAnimate

   This week we explored the ideas behind the Constructivist Theory and created a video using GoAnimate.  First, the main ideas Constructivism is focused on is students discovering what they are learning by exploring the concepts and working together.  The main ideas can be summed up in the five E's: Engagement, Exploration, Explanation, Elaboration and Evaluation.  Allowing students to be active learners is the central belief of Constructivism and a lesson plan that includes the five E's allows students to be actively participating in their learning.

    After discussing the five E's and Constructivism, we used GoAnimate to create a video that summarizes the beliefs of the theory.  GoAnimate was easy to use except that the video had to be under two minutes since we did not want to pay for it.  That limited the amount of information we could use in the video.  You can check out the video here.