wk 10 terms

Question 1

learning sciences

Answer 1

An interdisciplinary science of learning, based on research in psychology, education, computer science, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, neuroscience, and other fields that study learning.

Question 2

constructivism

Answer 2

View that emphasizes the active role of the learner in building understanding and making sense of information.

Question 3

First wave constructivism

Answer 3

A focus on the individual and psychological sources of knowing, as in Piaget’s theory

Question 4

Radical constructivism

Answer 4

Knowledge is assumed to be the individual’s construction; it cannot be judged right or wrong.

Question 5

Second wave constructivism

Answer 5

A focus on the social and cultural sources of knowing, as in Vygotsky’s theory.

Question 6

Constructionism

Answer 6

How public knowledge in disciplines such as science, math, economics, or history is constructed.

Question 7

Community of practice

Answer 7

Social situation or context in which ideas are judged useful or true

Question 8

situated learning

Answer 8

The idea that skills and knowledge are tied to the situation in which they were learned and that they are difficult to apply in new settings.

Question 9

social negotiation

Answer 9

aspect of learning process that relies on collaboration with others and respect for different perspectives.

Question 10

Multiple representations of content

Answer 10

considering problems using various analogies, examples, and metaphors.

Question 11

spiral curriculum

Answer 11

bruner’s design for teaching that introduces the fundamental structure of all subjects early in the school years, then revisits the subjects in more and more complex forms over time.

Question 12

inquiry learning

Answer 12

approach in which the teacher presents a puzzling situation an students solve the problem by gathering data and testing their conclusions.

Question 13

problem based learning

Answer 13

methods that provide students with realistic problems that don’t necessarily have “right” answers.

Question 14

cognitive apprenticeship

Answer 14

a relationship in which a less experienced learner acquires knowledge and skills under the guidance of an expert.

Question 15

reciprocal teaching

Answer 15

designed to help students understand and think deeply about what they read.

Question 16

cooperative learning

Answer 16

situations in which elaboration, interpretation, explanation, and argumentation are integral to the activity of the group and where learning is supported by other individuals.

Question 17

reciprocal questioning

Answer 17

students work in pairs or triads to ask and answer questions about lesson materials.

Question 18

jigsaw classroom

Answer 18

a learning process in which each student is part of a group and each group member is given a part of the material to be learned by the whole group. students become an “expert” on their piece and then teach it to the others in their group.

Question 19

structured controversy

Answer 19

students work in pairs within their four-person cooperative groups to research a particular controversy.

Question 20

embodied cognition

Answer 20

theory stating that cognitive processes develop from real-time, goal directed interactions between humans and their environment.