Lecture 2 Flashcards
What is a cognitive load?
Refers to the effort used by our working or immediate memory (as opposed to long-term theory)
What are the three kinds of cognitive load?
- Intrinsic load
- Extraneous load
- Germane load
What is millers law?
Our short term memory can hold roughly 7 new facts +/-2
What is Cognitive off-loading?
The use of bodily actions and/or external devices to alter the information processing requirements of a task so as to reduce cognitive demand (counting on your fingers)
What are the 4E theories of Cognition?
- Embodied Cognition
- Embedded Cognition
- Extended Cognition
- Inactive Cognition
What is Embodied cognition?
Cognition cannot be fully described in terms of abstract mental processes (terms of representation). Rather, it must involve the entire body of the living system (brain and body)
What is embedded cognition?
Cognition is not an isolated event separate from the agent’s ecological niche.
Instead, it displays layers of co-determination with physical, social, or cultural aspects of the world.
What is Extended cognition?
Cognition is often offloaded into biological beings and non-biological (non-human) devices to serve a variety of functions that would be impossible (or too difficult) to be achieved by only by relying on the agent’s own mental processes.
What is Enactive cognition?
Cognition is conceived of as the set of meaningful relationships determined by an adaptive two-way exchange between biological and phenomenological complexity of living creatures and environments they inhabit and actively shape.
What is TPAC?
Technological Pedagogical Content knowledge.
What is CK (Content Knowledge)
The depth and breath of understanding about the ideas, topics, or subject-matter knowledge that a teacher is planning to teach to students.
-What we teach-
What is PK (Pedagogical Knowledge)
The depth and breath of understanding about a variety of instructional practices, strategies, and methods to promote students learning
-How we teach-
What is PCK?
Pedagogical Content Knowledge
The understanding needed to teach particular subject matter, including an understanding of assessments, common misconceptions, and adaptive instruction to diverse learners in specific subject matter.
What is TK?
Technology Knowledge
The depth and breath of understanding about technologies (new and old) for use in educational context.
-what we teach/learn with-
What is TPACK?
It is the framework that combines three kinds of teacher knowledge and tries to take into account how each of these knowledge work together in process.
What is TCK?
Technological Content Knowledge
Understanding of the reciprocal relationship between technology and content.
What is being taught often defines and is constrained by technology and their representational functional capabilities; what is being taught affords or suggests some technologies over others.
What is PTK?
Technological Pedagogical Knowledge
An understanding of technology and pedagogical practices, which can, and should, constrain and afford one another.
True or false:
Technologies are neither neutral nor unbiased
True.
Technology cannot be neutral as it can cause change.
What is media Ecology?
The study of media as environments
What did Neil Postman say about technology and education?
Technological change is neither additive nor subtractive. It is ecological
How is a technology ecological?
Because it has effects and side effects that reverberate through societies, affecting culture, politics, ect.
What is a tool-using culture?
Tools have two main purposes:
- to solve urgent physical problems
- support culture, that is to serve the symbolic world of art, politics, myth, ritual, and religion.
What is Technocarcy?
Tools play a central role in the thought-world of the culture to the point where tools bid to become the culture. Mechanical devices and bureaucracies increasingly arrive in the scene.
What is Technopoly?
Tools overtake the culture, and become a kind of technological theology. A technopoly flourishes when our defenses against a deluge of information breakdown and fail.
