Basic Assumptions
Used to enhance student understanding during math problem-solving to help students think and articulate complex problems more effectively
What is gesturing with hands/arms?
A set of shared goals and feeling of mutual respect
What is a sense of community?
Learned behaviors and beliefs passed from generation to generation
What is culture?
A large, enduring social group that has explicit social and economic structures and collective institutions and activities
What is a society?
Turning worksheets into games is an example of this type of learning
What is gamified learning / gamification?
Three methods used to reduce the cognitive burden for students during complex tasks
What are providing clear instructions, breaking down tasks, and scaffolding?
Any theory, plan, diagram, or cognitive tool that aids in understanding
What is a conceptual artifact?
What is a worldview?
When multiple people have expertise in a diverse number of topics and rely on one another to maximize both individual and societal success
A type of software that helps create and analyze visual data relationships
What is graphing software?
These two things relate to each other by emphasizing the importance of social interactions in constructing knowledge and understanding through shared experiences
What is social constructivism?
A type of interaction best suited for teaching new information and strategies
What is expert-novice interaction?
Groups of people who share common interests and goals and regularly coordinate efforts to achieve them
What is a community of practice?
These resemble real-world tasks and problems and they should help students make mental connections between school subject matter and out-of-school situations
What are authentic activities?
Technology allows students to access lessons from this location—even if they’re not at school
Where is anywhere/everywhere?
Understanding this concept enhances classroom dynamics by recognizing cultural diversity and fostering an inclusive and engaging environment
What are cultural differences?
Interaction with more skilled individuals often results in the development of this
What is metacognitive knowledge?
General understandings of what things are typically like and how they typically happen
What are schemas and scripts?
The act of acquiring knowledge/skills through working on complex projects/problems found in the real world
What is Problem-Based or Project-Based Learning?
The ability to learn at your own pace, time, and location is known as this type of learning
What is asynchronous learning?
Students may experience this when attempting to transfer classroom knowledge to unfamiliar contexts
What is a lack of skills or confidence?
A type of interaction best suited for acquiring new perspectives on known information
What is a novice-novice interaction?
An idea proposed by Howard Gardner explaining children's notions that life is a struggle between good and bad
What is a "Star Wars Script"?
When students are involved in projects that directly or indirectly enhance the quality of life in the outside world
What is service learning?
When technology takes on part of the cognitive load, it frees up this for creativity and problem-solving
What is mental capacity (or working memory)?