I will use Alanis Morisette's "You Learn." It basically sets out to say that when you have good experiences or bad, use them all to make the most of your life and be a better person. Build on what you experience (constructivism) because very simply, when you experience something, you do learn best. Toward the end of the song she throws out several more aspects of living that cause you to learn and the last line is that you live--you learn.
And I think the reference to the 'jagged little pill' that she swallows deals with how you learn best from the mistakes you make or the experiences you consider unpleasant at the time. If something is easy, then it did not require you to think.
This song, "Belong Here", is actually a theme song from a short-lived series on the CW, but I think the message relates well to constructivism. The song is about living your life, but not every sitting back and just let things happen to you. Constructivism is about not being a passive learning, but an active and motivated learner (says Piaget) that strives to make sense of the world around them as they interact with it.
I love this song, and it honestly took me forever to think of a song that in some small way demonstrated constructivisim. So I'm stretching it just a bit. In the Song it says "These small hours, these little wonders, these twists and turns of fate, time falls away, but these small hours, these small hours, still remain." So basically it's the little things that really create a destiny for a person, not just the big deals. Also, this song is the theme for Meet the Robinsons, and I don't know who has watched it, but the bad guy was actually the little boy who missed catching the game winning ball at his little league game. And that small moment changed the course of his life. So there's my stretch on constructivism. :)
Constructivism is when "people construct their own understanding and knowledge of the world, through experiencing things and reflecting on those experiences. When we encounter something new, we have to reconcile it with our previous ideas and experience, maybe changing what we believe, or maybe discarding the new information as irrelevant. In any case, we are active creators of our own knowledge. To do this, we must ask questions, explore, and assess what we know." http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/constructivism/index.html
With this meaning in mind the song--I hope you dance says "I hope you never lose your sense of wonder, you get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger" and this verse seems to relate to the constructivist view that we must asking questions and explore –be curious. (to be active learners) Later in the song she says “Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin', Lovin' might be a mistake but it's worth makin', Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter, When you come close to sellin' out reconsider, Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance”. In this verse it seems she is talking about changing what we believe; assess what we know and not being afraid to fail or experience new things.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U&feature=related Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
This song is a song rebelling against passive learning--- Here is one comment about this song at www.songfacts.com....
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1696 Roger Waters wrote this song about his views on formal education. He hated his grammar school teachers and felt they were more interested in keeping the kids quiet than teaching them. The wall refers to the wall Waters built around himself because he wasn't in touch with reality. The bricks in the wall were the events in his life which propelled him to build this proverbial wall around him, and his school teacher was another brick in the wall. Waters told Mojo, December 2009, that the song is meant to be satirical. He explained: "You couldn't find anybody in the world more pro-education than me. But the education I went through in boys' grammar school in the '50s was very controlling and demanded rebellion. The teachers were weak and therefore easy targets. The song is meant to be a rebellion against errant government, against people who have power over you, who are wrong. Then it absolutely demanded that you rebel against that."
I will use Alanis Morisette's "You Learn." It basically sets out to say that when you have good experiences or bad, use them all to make the most of your life and be a better person. Build on what you experience (constructivism) because very simply, when you experience something, you do learn best. Toward the end of the song she throws out several more aspects of living that cause you to learn and the last line is that you live--you learn.
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And I think the reference to the 'jagged little pill' that she swallows deals with how you learn best from the mistakes you make or the experiences you consider unpleasant at the time. If something is easy, then it did not require you to think.
Deletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFsnMbd2tEU
ReplyDeleteThis song, "Belong Here", is actually a theme song from a short-lived series on the CW, but I think the message relates well to constructivism. The song is about living your life, but not every sitting back and just let things happen to you. Constructivism is about not being a passive learning, but an active and motivated learner (says Piaget) that strives to make sense of the world around them as they interact with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsT2URr1Igc
ReplyDeleteI love this song, and it honestly took me forever to think of a song that in some small way demonstrated constructivisim. So I'm stretching it just a bit. In the Song it says "These small hours, these little wonders, these twists and turns of fate, time falls away, but these small hours, these small hours, still remain." So basically it's the little things that really create a destiny for a person, not just the big deals. Also, this song is the theme for Meet the Robinsons, and I don't know who has watched it, but the bad guy was actually the little boy who missed catching the game winning ball at his little league game. And that small moment changed the course of his life. So there's my stretch on constructivism. :)
I could not come up with just one song-- here are two of the many I found.
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I hope you dance by Leann Womack
Constructivism is when "people construct their own understanding and knowledge of the world, through experiencing things and reflecting on those experiences. When we encounter something new, we have to reconcile it with our previous ideas and experience, maybe changing what we believe, or maybe discarding the new information as irrelevant. In any case, we are active creators of our own knowledge. To do this, we must ask questions, explore, and assess what we know." http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/constructivism/index.html
With this meaning in mind the song--I hope you dance says "I hope you never lose your sense of wonder, you get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger" and this verse seems to relate to the constructivist view that we must asking questions and explore –be curious. (to be active learners) Later in the song she says “Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin', Lovin' might be a mistake but it's worth makin', Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter, When you come close to sellin' out reconsider, Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance”. In this verse it seems she is talking about changing what we believe; assess what we know and not being afraid to fail or experience new things.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U&feature=related
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
This song is a song rebelling against passive learning---
Here is one comment about this song at www.songfacts.com....
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1696
Roger Waters wrote this song about his views on formal education. He hated his grammar school teachers and felt they were more interested in keeping the kids quiet than teaching them. The wall refers to the wall Waters built around himself because he wasn't in touch with reality. The bricks in the wall were the events in his life which propelled him to build this proverbial wall around him, and his school teacher was another brick in the wall.
Waters told Mojo, December 2009, that the song is meant to be satirical. He explained: "You couldn't find anybody in the world more pro-education than me. But the education I went through in boys' grammar school in the '50s was very controlling and demanded rebellion. The teachers were weak and therefore easy targets. The song is meant to be a rebellion against errant government, against people who have power over you, who are wrong. Then it absolutely demanded that you rebel against that."