EDUC105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Discovery Learning, Information Processing Theory, Long-Term Memory
28 Aug 2018
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David geary"s perspective theory of evolutionary cognition/ educational psychology. * variances of discovery learning/constructivist teaching methods (vygotsky and piaget) * genesis from bruner 1961: if we are going to construct knowledge, part of it must be discovery. * vast body of information acquired without explicit or any teaching outside educational institutions (ei) * easy learning to speak or recognising faces or walking, without explicit instruction. * difficult acquiring even less knowledge from inside ei, children naturally discover (are we doing something wrong and teaching wrong inside the school environment that children find it hard to discover and learn?) * use same methods as for outside learning. * why don"t use the same method inside the classroom^ * development of new teaching strategies that involve discovery learning/ exploration learning. * teacher transmission learning tt/rl rope learning vs discovery learning d. * students must construct their own knowledge of the world.
