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What is Moderate-Constructivism

Chapter 17
Digitalization, New Media, and Education for Sustainable Development
In contrast to radical constructivism, which assumes that everything perceived is only constructed, moderate-constructivism is a more pragmatic approach. Thereby, the presumption is that a certain amount of instruction is needed for learning. This includes the creation of suitable learning settings as well as critical feedbacks for learners.
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Will Social Media Replace Face-to-Face Interactions in International Collaboration Discussions?
Martin Dür (University of Innsbruck, Austria) and Lars Keller (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5033-5.ch017
Abstract
Within the education-research cooperation AustrIndia-4QOL, 102 teenagers from Austria and India jointly conducted research on the topics ‘quality of life' and ‘sustainability'. While the collaboration was mainly carried out via social media, some of the teenagers took part in an additional one-week face-to-face collaboration. This chapter offers insights into the effects of the collaboration on students' concepts of the quality of life perceptions of teenagers from different socio-cultural backgrounds and on their awareness of the importance and impact of environmental aspects on quality of life and their willingness to act towards more sustainable lifestyles. Social media enables learning experiences that cannot be facilitated within classical educational settings and should therefore be afforded greater attention in formal education. However, examination of the AustrIndia-4QOL project shows that social media collaborations have their own limitations and that the total removal of the opportunity for live face-to-face interactions is questionable.
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