Section 8.1
This term refers to the idea that acquired knowledge and skills are often tied to the physical, social, or cultural situations in which they were learned.
What is situated learning?
This instructional approach focuses on helping students understand how to think by modeling problem-solving and decision-making processes out loud.
What is cognitive apprenticeship?
This term refers to behaviors and beliefs passed from old members of a group to new ones across generations.
What is culture?
Chapter 8 defines this as a very large, enduring social group with explicit social and economic structures, institutions, and activities.
What is a society?
When learners think and perform more effectively when they offload some of the cognitive burden onto tools, external resources, or other individuals.
What is distributed cognition?
This term refers to step-by-step support provided by a teacher that is gradually removed as students become more independent.
What is scaffolding?
This phrase describes how novices begin at the edge of a community’s work, contributing in real but limited ways as they gain competence.
What is legitimate peripheral participation?
This term refers to the fact that different people in a society have expertise in different areas, so members must rely on one another’s knowledge.
What is distributed knowledge?
This perspective focuses on how learners build understanding together through shared discussion and joint meaning-making.
What is Social Co-Construction of Knowledge?
This psychologist believed that learning is deeply social and occurs through interaction with more knowledgeable individuals.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
This term refers to a person’s broad beliefs and assumptions about reality, such as whether life is shaped by fate, divine purpose, or personal action.
What is a worldview?
These are activities similar or identical to what students will eventually encounter in the outside world.
What are authentic activities?
In this process, learners actively engage in culturally meaningful activities with guidance from more experienced individuals, gradually internalizing the skills and practices of the group.
What is guided participation?
According to this theory, a student’s development is influenced not just by school, but also by community, culture, and larger societal systems.
What is Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory?
These are groups of people who share common interests and goals and regularly interact and coordinate their efforts in pursuit of those goals.
What are communities of practice?
This type of learning involves students acquiring knowledge and skills as they solve complex real-world problems.
What is problem-based learning?