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Authentic learning

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Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.' There is evidence that schools are beginning to adopt authentic learning methods. 1989) Situated cognition and the culture of learning. Unported License. Unported License.

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Friday Find Finds — Tools for Learning, Understanding Forgetting, Memorable Feedback

Mike Taylor

Memorable Feedback: Lessons from Cognitive Psychology in Selective Attention. Tune into this conversation with digital wellness expert Julia Soffa on effective strategies you can adopt to overcome information overload. iSpring is giving away 11 free licenses to teachers. It is powerful, inevitable and adaptive. Help me improve.

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Learning as dialogue

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Later, Piaget, Inhelder and others were responsible for introducing a cognitive version of learning theory which held that children were ''solo scientists'' who constructed their own meaning through exploration of their environment. Unported License. Dialogue has proved time and again to be a very powerful aspect of learning.

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Through a child's eyes

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Research from the behavioural and cognitive sciences, neurosciences and pedagogical research fields is regularly yielding new findings. In an article entitled 'Learning from Learners', Rachel Wu (Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester, New York) discusses some recent findings on how infants learn.

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Who's in charge?

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If students believe they have little or no influence over their own outcomes they may adopt attitudes that are negative and pessimistic. Anderson ACT-R Cognitive Architecture 2. Festinger Cognitive Dissonance Theory 12. Piaget Cognitive Stages of Development 34. Unported License. Previous posts in this series: 1.

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Here comes the SAMR

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In this post I will use a tried and tested model of technology adoption as a theoretical lens to examine some of the most recent, emergent properties of technology integration. Photo by Steve Wheeler Here comes the SAMR by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Watch and learn

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Social learning theory incorporates the idea of behaviour reinforcement from the former, and cognitive processes such as attention, motivation and memory from the latter. He noticed that the consequences of an observed behaviour often determined whether or not children adopted the behaviour themselves. Unported License.

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