EDPS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Learning Sciences, Embodied Cognition, Wu Xing

• School: Concordia University of Edmonton
• Department: Educational Psychology
• Course: EDPS 200
• Professor: Jason Daniels

Document Summary

Constructivism = the notion that you as the learner are doing the work and the learner do the work and derive the meaning from what you are being taught about. An interdisciplinary field of learning based on research in psychology, education, computer science, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, neuroscience and other f that study learning. Focus on how deep knowledge in subject like science, math and literacy is actuall and applied in the real world of scientists, mathematicians and writers. Reflection is necessary to develop deep conceptual knowledge. Our cognitive processes develop in the real-time, goal-directed interactions our bodies and their environment. In education psychology, the fundamental assumptions of the learning scien embodied cognition all lead to the conclusion that thinking is constructive. Learners are active in constructing their own knowledge. Social interactions are important in this knowledge construction process. Individuals make sense of the world based on individual knowledge, beliefs concept.