Cognitivism is a more rationalist idea that stresses “mental structures and the processes that organize, store, and retrieve information” (p. 77). According to Selber (2004), “constructivism rejects a key premise of both cognitivism and behaviorism: that meaning exists apart from experience” (p. 78). According to D. Scott Brandt, “Cognitivists seek to explain what goes on during learning, and constructivists seek to apply it to the classroom” (113)” (as cited in Selber, 2004, p. 80).
References:
Selber, S. (2004). Multiliteracies for a digital age. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.