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  What does Piaget's research say?  
 
     
As Piaget (1954) has shown, learners make meaning in their minds. They construct meaning by connecting new information, incoming data to prior knowledge and background experiences. The learner must make the critical connections in order to make sense of the world around him or her. That's the constructivist theory of learning.
 
 
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