Week 8 Cognitive Development and Language

Lili Bueno and I read and discussed this week's reading. We found that Piaget's stages of cognitive development can be of great use for us as teachers to have an understanding of how students think and how they learn. Through this stages we have a better knowledge of what they are capable of doing, this can prevent somepeople from underestimating students. On the other hand we disagree a little that children shouldn't be taught abstract operations. chldren can learn beyond what we imagine, we believe that if necessary the child can learn how to manipulate abstract operations. Of course it might not be of a priority or necessary, but we believe they are able to learn beyond. We noticed that there are a lot of disagreements between Piaget and Vygotsky. So who is right and who is wrong? We decided that they can both be right or wrong, it all just depends on how we think adn what we believe in, in terms of cognitive development and language.