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*CompSci Revolution, The evidence?, Red = a priori:, Blue = empirical, The…

- - - - Constructivism
        
        Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development: Cognition is not just a black box for input/output... adaptation is an active, formal set of mental operations that takes place!
        
        Mental Operations:
        Sensorimotor --> Concrete --> Formal
        
        Mental assimilation or accommodation of new experiences to inform "schemas"
        
        Stages are not sequentially attained/discarded but grown into and coherent: the same underlying model applies across different tasks
        
        Perhaps Piaget was more of a logical determinist? (Piaget, Gruber & Vonèche,1977)
        
        Vygosky's Socio-Cultural Theory of Learning (1978)
        
        Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
        
        Scaffolding to support child-centered instruction
        
        People can perform tasks in collaboration that they could not otherwise do alone.
        
        Later research on complex systems (DiSessa) & emergence (Wilensky et. Resnick, 1999) confirm the constant impact of an overarching environment