PiagetModel

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=Piaget's Model of Learning Process = "The learner was neither an 'empty vessel' to be filled with knowledge nor a 'blank slate' on which knowledge could be inscribed, but a system that learned through its own interaction with its environment." -- Learning by Design: Constructing Experiential Learning Programs, Weinberg & Weinberg.

The Steps
Piaget's model of learning comprises four steps:
 * Provocation
 * Disequilibration
 * Self-regulation
 * New learning

Provocation
We present the students with something that in some way challenges them. This could be as simple as asking for a list of words and putting the words on two different charts. It is like a foreign element in the SatirChangeModel.

Disequilibration
The learner literally is "off balance." This is the chaos stage in the SatirChangeModel. The student is looking for a way to take in or reject the provocation experience.

Self-regulation
Self-regulation comes comes in two forms:
 * Assimilation
 * Accommodation

Moving from disequilibration into self-regulation is like the transforming idea in the SatirChangeModel.

//**Assimilation**// The learner rejects the data, experience, or considers "just like something else."

//**Accommodation**// The learner rejects his/her existing model in lieu of the new information. In reality, these are opposite ends of a spectrum. A given learner will often use one or both to varying degrees while self-regulating.

New Knowledge
As a result of the entire experience, the learner has new knowledge. This is something the learner constructed him/herself. We cannot control what the learner has learned but we can guide it through the design of experiential learning situations.

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