Additional Weblinks

Below are additional weblinks relevant to this chapter's topics:

Piaget's Stages
Covers Piaget's four stages - sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.

• http://www.eagle2.american.edu/~gb3107a/piaget.htm

Piaget's Theory
The website of the Jean Piaget Society. Information about Piaget's theory and links to other sites related to the theory.

• http://www.piaget.org/

Cognitive Milestones
Describes a number of cognitive changes in infancy.

• http://www.ctw.org/babyworkshop/library/article/0,3170,860,00.html

Symbolic Thinking
Examines young children's symbolic thinking during the early childhood years.

• http://www.ctw.org/parents/advice/article/0,4125,740,00.html

Piaget and Education
Information about Piaget's stages of cognitive development and implications of his ideas for educating children. Also explores instructional technology and Piaget's constructivist ideas.

• http://www.ic.polyu.edu.hk/posh97/Student/Learn/Learning_theories.html

Vygotsky on Language and Thought
Examine Vygotsky's main ideas about developmental changes in language and thought. Includes information about word meaning and implications for instruction. Links to related sites.

• http://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/works/words/

Vygotsky Links
Extensive links to a wide range of ideas related to Vygotsky's views.

• http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne

Scaffolding
Read about the application of scaffolding to learning and the Internet, scaffolding and Vygotsky's theory, and constructivist exercises.

• http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/bdodge/scaffolding.html

Lev Vygotsky
Describes the work of Vygotsky.

• http://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/

Vygotsky's Theory
Describes the basic views of Vygotsky. Includes biographical information and implications of Vygotsky's view for education.

• http://csunix1.lvc.edu/~b_rehm/Vygotskyindex.html