EDP 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Lev Vygotsky, Rieti
25 Oct 2016
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What is learning: generally defined as relatively permanent changes in behavior, skills, knowledge, or attitudes resulting from identifiable psychological or social experiences. Psychological and social constructivism: perspective on learning focused on how students actively create/construct knowledge out of experiences, central ideas. 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, and self-concept: piaget. Social constructivism: social interaction, cultural tools, and activity shape individual development and leaning, vygotsky. Vygotsky: zone of proximal development, language, cultural tools. Cognitive view of learning: a general approach that views learning as an active mental process of acquiring, remembering, and using knowledge, prior learning. Existing knowledge guides our attention and affects what we remember and forget. Information processing system: sensory memory, working memory, long term memory. However, duration is brief, 1 to 3 seconds.
