Bruner developed the concept of discovery learning which promoted learning as a process of constructing new ideas based on current or past knowledge.
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He integrated discovery learning and technology, and developed tools and techniques that merge the vast capabilities of online technology with traditional classroom studies.
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Today's research, like that of Kirschner, Sweller, and Clark ( 2006 ) reports that there is little empirical evidence to support pure discovery learning.
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Discovery learning can occur whenever the student is not provided with an exact answer but rather the materials in order to find the answer themselves.
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Dr . Mohler is a Purdue University Faculty Scholar, a faculty fellow for the Discovery Learning Center, and a member of the Purdue University Teaching Academy.
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Constructivism has many varieties such as active learning, discovery learning, and knowledge building, but all versions promote a student's free exploration within a given framework or structure.
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At the base level an approach that uses hands on, discovery learning, can be considered constructivist in origin ( students being the architects of their knowledge ).
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Jerome Bruner is often credited with originating discovery learning in the 1960s, but his ideas are very similar to those of earlier writers ( e . g.
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Sara Tarver and Jane Jung, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, carried out a study of first-and second-graders comparing discovery learning with a mathematics curriculum based on direct instruction.
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It is the role of the educator to promote discovery learning through the implementation of classroom methods such as learning contracts, group projects, role play, case studies, and simulations.
