Knowlegde Construction - Chapt 7

What:
Through both formal classroom instruction and many informal, out-of-school learning experiences, students continually add to and modify their understandings of their physical and social worlds. To some degree, this knowledge construction is an individual enterprise, because students must ultimately create their own views of physical and social phenomenon. Regardless of the extent to which student acquire their understandings either on their own or with the help of others, they all construct somewhat unique interpretations of ideas and events they encounter in and out of the classroom.
So What:
For the most part this is a great thing in education. A students can look at information and make their own unique conclusions about any topic. This could also be dangerous and can interfere with the success of the student. They could not understand the facts totally and have a wrong impression that hinders their attitudes or their learning experience.
Now What:
I thing that students need the opportunity to think for themselves and use reasoning to get to the bottom of problems. This learning style needs to be grounded in a foundation of good quality instruction that can give the students the proper scaffolding and guidance they need to make those unique points of view. I cannot Wait to be in the position of a teacher where the student can take what instruction I give them and turn it into their own unique pattern of thought.