Every student in an educator's classroom will come with knowledge of all different types of worldviews, so it is important that teachers encourage their children to share these views with others in class. For example, a first-grade teacher wants to talk about the speed of objects, so she pairs her students and asks them to make paper airplanes. Since every child has most likely made or seen another person make a paper airplane, they already have an idea of how to get started. The trick to this; however, both students may have a different idea on how to make this paper airplane, so they will need to learn from each other's past experiences to successfully complete the task at hand. This idea of incorporating different points of view supports Vygotsky's theory that children learn from their experiences in the world. By accepting another person's perspective on making a paper airplane, a student will be able to add those ideas to previously constructed knowledge, which supports Piaget's theory that children adapt new information to their existing knowledge.
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