Piaget: In the video, the students who were in the exercise of finding out which glass had more juice in it were in the pre-operational stage. The first girl is in the early stages of using her mental activities. She has not mastered the concept just yet but she needs more time to develop so that she can understand why both glasses have the same amount of juice. The second girl looks like she is 6 or 7 years old. In her mind, the skinny glass and the wide glass have the same amount of juice because she believes that both glasses were equal before and they are still equal now. Her mind understands that the skinny glass still has the same amount of juice as the wide glass.
In the second task, the little girl is thought because she believes that distance causes one row to be bigger than the other row. In the graham cracker task, the girl knows that the teacher has more graham crackers than she does. But two half crackers is not the same as 2 whole crackers. She needs more time to develop so she can see that she has less graham crackers than her teacher does.
James (1899) states that, "in teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every other object of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day (pg. 4). James believes that we have to show students what they need to learn. We have to awaken their minds so that they will want to know what we are teaching them.
I believe in Piaget's point of view because students need to have time to develop as they go from sensorimotor, to pre-operational, to concrete operations, and then to formal operations.
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