Contextual Theories
Social Interactions
Cultures
Society and Technology
Academic Content Domains
100
Acquired knowledge and skills are often tied to a limited set of activities and enviorments.
What is situated learning and cognition?
100
Human learning involving interactions with more advanced individuals,with equal-ability peers,or both.
What is social interactions?
100
Behaviors and belief systems of a long-standing social group.
What is culture?
100
Large social group with fairly explicit social and economic structures and activities.
What is society?
100
Knowledge and skills that lay a foundation for reading and writing. Typically develops from early experiences with written language.
What is emergent literacy?
200
Learners can only handle a small amount of information at one time, then it is helpful to shift the load elsewhere.
What is distributed cognition and intellegence?
200
Any explanation that helps learners relate what they're observing to particular concepts.
What is mediated learning experience?
200
Tightly organized set of facts about a specific topic.
What is schema?
200
Group members must rely on one another to maximize their personal and collective performance.
What is distributed knowledge?
200
Ability to hear the distinct sounds of which spoken words are comprised.
What is phonological awareness?
300
Theory of learning that focuses on how people's physical,social,or cultural surroundings support their learning,development and behavior.
What is contextual theories?
300
Assisting students in developing a deeper understanding through the use of different modes of teaching
What is metacognitive strategies?
300
Schema that involves a predictable sequence of events related to a common activity.
What is script?
300
Activities students will eventually encounter in the outside world.
What is authentic activity?
300
Writing in a manner that helps reader understand them.
What is knowledge transforming?
400
Learners in which focus on such collective efforts to impose meaning to the world
What is social constructivism?
400
Collaboratively working to help one another learn.
What is a community of learners?
400
General, culturally based set of assumptions about reality that influence understandings of a wide variety of phenomena.
What is worlview?
400
Students acquire new knowledge and skills as they work on complex problems.
What is project-based learning?
400
Writing ideas in whatever order they come to mind, with little regard for communicating the ideas effectively.
What is knowledge telling?
500
Adults mediate new situations for children in ways the culture deems to be appropriate or productive.
What is socioculture theory?
500
Participating in a community of learners can promote knowledge building process
What is complex thinking?
500
Participating with a community of practice as a way of gaining knowledge to the groups typical ways of doing things.
What is legitimate peripheral participation?
500
Promotes learning through contributing to the betterment of others and the outside community.
What is service learning?
500
Knowledge and skills that help a learner find, evaluate and present information about a specific topic.
What is information literacy?
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