From the course: Programming Foundations: Programming for Kids
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Piaget's four stages of cognitive development
From the course: Programming Foundations: Programming for Kids
Piaget's four stages of cognitive development
Another way of understanding how kids learn is through a concept known as Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development. Categorization of learning styles teaches us how people learn differently even when they're at similar developmental levels. But Piaget's stages are about how our learning processes change as we grow older. Jean Piaget was a 20th century psychologist who worked from the premise that children are just as smart as adults, but that they think differently. In other words, kids don't just learn more as they grow, they change in how they learn. Educators and parents can use Piaget's definitions to better understand how kids process information and how to create and select learning tools that work for a kid's particular stage. The earliest of Piaget's stages is called the sensorimotor stage, and it describes how toddlers and infants learn. During this stage, kids being to understand that things exist separately from themselves, and they acquire new information through sensory…
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