Overview
Motivation and Expecation
Learning and Understanding
More Learning
People
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“Within group sociocultural mediation” and “Facilitated mediation by others” are what type of contextual factors?
Sociocultural
100
Why do people go to museums?
For many reasons (or to see and experience real objects)
100
What type of learners tend to more successful?
Intrinsically motivated
100
Why is learning in museums different from learning in any other setting?
Learning differs depending upon the conditions under which it occurs
100
True or false: Socially mediated learning does not occur in one’s own group
True
200
What is the Contextual Model of Learning?
An effort to simultaneously provide a holistic picture of learning and accommodate the myriad specifics and details that give richness and authenticity to the learning process
200
True or false: People have predetermined expectations of their museum visits
True
200
How do people learn?
People learn by accumulating understanding over time
200
True or false: We can simplify information as much as we want and get a sufficiently realistic and generalizable model
False
200
At museums how do parents help children?
Parents help children understand and make meaning from their experience
300
What are the three Personal Context factors?
Motivation and Expectations, Prior Knowledge, interests, and beliefs, Choice and control
300
What happens when expectations are fulfilled?
Learning is facilitated
300
When do people make sense of the understanding they gain from museums?
As events in the world facilitate and demand
300
When do people learn better?
They feel secure in their surroundings and they know what is expected of them
300
How do children help parents?
Children help parents see the world with “new” eyes
400
What are the three types of Physical Context factors?
Advance organizers and orientation, Design, Reinforcing events and experiences outside the museum
400
What happens if expectations go unmet?
Learning suffers
400
Why is knowledge and experience gained from a museum incomplete?
It needs enabling context to be complete and that usually occurs outside of a museum days, weeks, or years later
400
True or false: there is a simple, stripped-down, acontextual framework for understanding learning
False
400
How do social groups in museums utilize each other?
By deciphering information, Reinforcing shared beliefs, Making meaning
500
What are 5 of the 8 key factors that influence learning?
Motivation and Expectations, Prior knowledge, interest, and beliefs, Choice and control, Within-group sociocultural mediation, Facilitated mediation by others, Advance organizers and orientation, Design, Reinforcing events and experiences outside the museum
500
True or false: Because of motivation and expectations learning in museums is always highly personal
False, it is because of prior knowledge, interests, and beliefs that makes learning in museums highly personal
500
What 4 things do learners actively self-select?
Whether to go to a museum or not, Which type of institution to visit, What exhibitions to view/programs to participate in, Which aspects of the experiences to attend to
500
When is learning at its peak?
When individuals can exercise choice over what and when they learn and feel that they control their own learning
500
How do museums undermine their success and learning value?
Try to mimic compulsory learning education and force specific learning agendas on the public
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