EDUC105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Time Travel, Lev Vygotsky, Metacognition

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Teacher Education
• Course: EDUC105
• Professor: All

Document Summary

* working together and getting information from other people. * the role of the more knowledgable other is very important; teaches you to drive, bake a cake, play a game. * what could we learn without assistance from someone else. * learning through interaction and dialogue between more knowledgeable adults and peers. * mediation= the able helping the less able in thinking (adult, teacher, parent, peer assisting the child or disabled) * e. g. pens, pencils, calculators, computers, electronic printers, internet, mobile phones. * other tools, e. g numbers, coding, braille, sign language, language. * have to be shown procedures in terms of these cultural tools. * extend learning capacity/knowledge through these cultural tools, word processor extends knowledge of words. * the role of language; critical in the development of cognition. * intellectual function, problem solving and self regulation. * metacognition; thinking about your own thinking, talking to yourself, silent thinking. * scaffolding; mediation of speech,guided and helped in learning.