Psychology 2610G Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Learning Sciences, Embodied Cognition, Personalized Learning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2610G
• Professor: hutchinson

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Friday, december 1, 2017 educational psych textbook notes chapter 10 the learning sciences and constructivism. Basic assumptions of the learning sciences: though the di erent elds in the learning sciences approach their study in various ways there is going agreement about some basic assumptions. Experts have deep conceptual knowledge allows them to put their knowledge into action: able to apply and mod. their knowledge to t each situation, their deep conceptual knowledge generates problem nding and problem solving. Learning comes from the learner learning is more than receiving and processing info. transmitted by teachers or texts: students must actively participate in their own personal construction of knowledge. Re ection is necessary to develop conceptual knowledge. Embodied cognition: theory stating that cog. processes develop from real-time, goal directed interactions between humans and their environment. Friday, december 1, 2017 sensorimotor interaction in the world. (1) learners are active in constructing their own knowledge.