EDUC2716 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Metacognition, Lev Vygotsky
Week 5 Lecture
Piaget:
How thinking is influenced by cognitive development stages
Biological maturation, activity, social experience
Invariant functions
Organisation and adaptation
Organised in certain ways – schemes basic building blocks for thinking and doing
The ability of all to adapt mental representations to fit into the reality – assimilation (help
understand) and accommodation (changing to fit)
Schema theory – all knowledge is organised into units, generalised description
Scripts – typical sequence of events in the everyday
Disequilibration and Equilibration:
None of these schemas work
Work for a solution to find balance within the world – fitting the new information into
existing schemas
Idea of schema being out of sync
Maps – Individual map of the world (Directs) to Repertoire of possible actions (Samples)
World of potentially available info (Modifies)
Stages of Cognitive Development:
Before, During and After learning/ reading/ activities
Piaget’s theory – schemas develop as child gets older
Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, Formal Operational
Implications:
Self-regulated learning – metacognition
Learning is constructed
Challenge thinking and expand schemata
Constructivism – new learning compared to prior knowledge
Vygotsky:
Knowledge is constructed in cognitive and social context
Actively constructed mediated by social discourse
More emphasis on culture, social factors and the role of language
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Document Summary
How thinking is influenced by cognitive development stages. Organised in certain ways schemes basic building blocks for thinking and doing. The ability of all to adapt mental representations to fit into the reality assimilation (help understand) and accommodation (changing to fit) Schema theory all knowledge is organised into units, generalised description. Scripts typical sequence of events in the everyday. Work for a solution to find balance within the world fitting the new information into existing schemas. Maps individual map of the world (directs) to repertoire of possible actions (samples) Piaget"s theory schemas develop as child gets older. Constructivism new learning compared to prior knowledge. Knowledge is constructed in cognitive and social context. More emphasis on culture, social factors and the role of language. Mko (more knowledgeable other) and zpd (zone of proximal development) Self-regulated active, constructive and goal directed process.
