Educational Psychology / Unit 5 EDP 0433 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Conceptual Change
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The idea
Conceptual change teaching replaces a misconception, and learners give up an existing idea only when it becomes unsatisfying and a new one is intelligible, plausible and fruitful.
In practice
A student who thinks heavier objects fall faster watches two different weights land together.
Where people slip
Confronting students with ill-fitting evidence, disequilibrium in Piaget's term, is the starting point, not the whole method.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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