CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Metacognition, Cognitive Development, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences
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Locus of control julian rotter: late 1950"s; people tend to fall into 2 styles. A teacher is to facilitate learning and provide the conditions for learning to take place: external condition: outside the learner, classroom rule, poster about tips for good writing, children"s work on walls, classroom environment, extrinsic motivation. The challenges for teachers is to set the external conditions that support and spark the internal conditions. Turning the students eye & getting the student excited about school. Our own assumptions about learning influence how we set the conditions. True/false quiz: people learn from experience; true, there is meaning in fact; learn the fact and you learn the meaning of the fact; Instinct versus knowledge (animal learning: people learn from experience. Reflection: there is meaning in fact; learn the fact and you learn the meaning of the fact. Construction of knowledge & influence of experience.