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What is constructivism?
Constructivism is a theory about knowledge and learning, which emphasizes learners' initiative and holds that learning is a process in which learners generate meaning and construct understanding based on their original knowledge and experience, and this process is often completed in social and cultural interaction.

Constructivism has a profound ideological origin, which is different from the traditional learning theory and teaching thought and has important guiding value for teaching design.

The earliest supporters of constructivism can be traced back to Piaget, Switzerland. He is the most influential psychologist in the field of cognitive development, and the school he founded on children's cognitive development is called Geneva School. Piaget's theory is full of materialist dialectics and insists on studying children's cognitive development from the perspective of the interaction between internal and external factors.

He believes that children gradually construct knowledge about the outside world in the process of interacting with the surrounding environment, thus developing their own cognitive structure.

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Teaching principles:

1, put all the learning tasks in order to adapt to the world more effectively.

2. The teaching objectives should be consistent with the objectives in the students' learning environment, and the problems found by teachers should make students feel that they are their own problems.

3. Design real tasks. Real activity is an important feature of learning environment. That is, using real tasks and daily activities or practices to integrate various contents or skills in classroom teaching.

4. Design a complex environment that can reflect students' effective actions after learning.

5. Give students the autonomy to solve problems. Teachers should stimulate students' thinking and inspire them to solve problems by themselves.

6. Design a learning environment that supports and stimulates students' thinking.

7. Encourage students to test their views in the social background.

8. Support students to reflect on their knowledge and learning process, develop their self-control ability and become independent learners.

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