EDUC 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Situated Learning, Lev Vygotsky, Legitimate Peripheral Participation

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Education
• Course: EDUC 220
• Professor: Jeff Sugarman

Document Summary

Decay: material not brought to mind frequently enough fades: massed practice: practice for a single extended period, distributed practice: practice in brief periods with rest intervals. Interference: loss of information because something learned either before or after the target information inhibits it"s recall: proactive inhibition: previous learning interferes with current recall, retroactive inhibition: subsequent learning interferes with recall of previous learning. Retrieval cue failure: inability to find a way (path) to the item stored in memory. Metacognition: knowledge about and awareness of one"s own thinking processes. Automated (basic) skills: skills that are applied without conscious thought. Domain-specific strategies: strategies specific to a particular subject matter or area of knowledge. Domain-specific knowledge: knowledge belonging to particular subject matter. Where is the wisdom that we have lost in knowledge and where is the knowledge we have lost in information - t. s. eliot. Entails not only a theory of learning, but also a theory about the nature of knowledge.