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Using Peer Collaboration to Support Online Reading, Writing, and Communication: An Empowerment Model for Struggling Readers

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This comparative case study investigated the implementation of an empowerment model for struggling readers that utilized the Internet as a context for reading, writing, and communicating in 3 different classroom contexts. Through student-centered

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The challenges to the constructivism theory is that the models where based in the last century. While the theories are great and still functional it does not take into account the new technologies of this century and how students learn. In a world filled with technology and information at our fingertips learning is still done relatively the same in most classrooms throughout America. We must now teach our students the way they learn and process their learning in the 21st century.

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Reading and Writing in the Science Classroom, Dr. Patricia Bowers

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Just like peanut butter and jelly, science and the communication skills of reading and writing are natural partners for todays elementary classroom. The teaching of science concepts combined with communications skills is an approach whose time has come for two major reasons.

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This is a worthy go to reach for and it fits for this era and not the past!

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"Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested..." ~Francis Bacon

"If you cannot write well, you cannot think well, and if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you."
~George Orwell

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The Constructivism aproach

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In the Transactional/Reader Response Theory bases it theory on the idea that every individual is unique with regards to what constitutes his or her schema in any area of particular area.
To get students to engage in reading it was suggested that teachers design the lessons around either efferent response of aesthetic responses. Efferent responses are usually geared towards when a lesson is centered around an expository text and facts are needed to be found in the text. Whereas, in an aesthetic response is when a student's responses are personal and emotionally based.

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In a diverse classroom, how might I develop an environment in which all students are reading, writing, communicating, supporting each other and taking risks in growing as life learners? What are the barriers/challenges to applying elements of constructivism during this goal driven era and how might I address these?