cep900 11'06'06

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cep900 11.06.06

• Brown, J. S., Collins, A., Duguid, P. Situated
  cognition and the culture of learning.
• Resnick, L. B. Learning in and out of school.

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assignment

• Article critique 2. Read article. Prepare 4 page
  critique to submitted for peer-editing
• RDP meeting with me in two weeks! You should be
  85-90 finished by that point. This time, show me
  what youve done rather than tell me about your
  plans.

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constructivism, contd

• Bruner structure
• Consider his famous assertion about learning -
  any subject can be taught to any child in some
  intellectually honest manner.

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situated cognition

• John Seely Brown et al.,
• http//www.johnseelybrown.com/
• Situated cognitionwhat does that mean? Or, if
  situated cognition is the answer, what was the
  question?

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knowing and doing

• Knowing and doing are often seen as separate
  entities.
• Rationale evidence

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situated cognition

• Words and indexical meaning
• Concepts are like tools. Their meaning is only
  fully understood in their use
• Activity, concept, culture

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situated cognition

• How are each of these related to the idea that
  cognition is situated?
• Learning and tools
• Learning and enculturation
• Authentic activity
• Cognitive apprenticeship
• Students, practitioners, and just plain folks

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authentic activity

• ordinary practices of a culture

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legitimate peripheral participation

• Lave and Wenger
• the idea that authentic participation can occur
  at all levels
• describes how learning might progress, what
  teaching might look like

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context a circular definition?

• Context affects learning
• what is context?
• context is the social, physical, psychological,
  cultural, and historical conditions within which
  learning takes place
• which conditions matter?
• context is the condition that affect learning
• Context is that which affects learning
• A circular definition? The same problem can be
  found with behavior is shaped by reinforcement

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context an ambiguous construct?

• What is the context of learning?
• What isnt context?
• The same critique can be made for the construct
  of culture, ecology

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the value of considering context

• Even if the definition of context is circular and
  unclear, there is still value in considering
  context and learning?

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areas of research focused on context culture

• situated cognition
• learning in and out of school
• cross cultural research
• communities of practice (Lave Wenger)
• language and learning (Heath)
• learning in the workplace (Brown)
• anthropological studies of learning (Saxe, Lave,
  Beach)
• cognition and school subjects in everyday life
  (Rogoff)

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learning in and out of school

• Lauren B. Resnick http//www.lrdc.pitt.edu/page/Re
  snickPage
• htmhttp//www.instituteforlearning.org/bios/resn.h
  tml
• What is value of this construct? (how is
  perception improved with this lens? how does it
  compare to other lenses?)
• Give Resnicks example and suggest your own
  examples that illustrate the distinctions.

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learning in and out of school

• individual vs. shared cognition
• pure mentation vs. tool manipulation
• symbol manipulation vs contextualized reasoning
• generalized learning vs. situation-specific
  competencies

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discussion

• Think of situations you are familiar with where
  it is often said there is no substitute for
  field experience.
• Can you describe what it is that field experience
  gives that classroom or book learning cannot?
• How well does Resnicks framework describe this
  difference?

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