Gerhard Fischer and Hal Eden: “Design, Learning, and Collaboration” — Spring Semester 2007
Assignment 10: “Learning: From Speculation to Science”
source: "Learning: From Speculation to Science" - Introduction to Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R. (Eds.) (2001) How People Learn — Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. (distributed on paper)
Analyzers and summarizers for assignment 10:
1. Jason Held
2. Jarret Lavallee
The “analyzers and summarizers” can do their work individually or jointly
due: Monday, March 5, 2006
1. producers: please submit by 10:00am to the class website – please be on time, so the summarizers can do their work!
2. summarizers: please submit by 2:00pm to the class website
Briefly discuss the following issues:
1. analyze and describe how you have learnt a complex systems (e.g.: MS-Word, Photoshop, Java, Sketchup, using the Web effectively, …)? – choose one and describe your experience in some detail!
2. describe the most interesting / exciting learning episode of your life!
3. write in one short paragraph (a) what the following concepts mean and (b) which role they have played in your personal learning (e.g., where you have encountered them)
3.1. learning by being told
3.2. self-directed learning
3.3. learning on demand
3.4. discovery learning
3.5. experiential learning
3.6. informal learning
3.7. collaborative learning
hw10-sax.doc
hw10-davis.pdf
hw10-DaveMusson.doc
hw10-yingdan.pdf
hw-10-JohnBacus
hw-10-BrianBrown
hw10-Speir-Zeles.doc
hw10-mangalath.doc
hw10-TylerBrown.doc
hw10-PengShao.doc
hw10-mangalath.doc
Summary:
hw10-JasonHeld
SUM10-JarretLavallee.doc
hw10-mangalath.doc
hw10-JonDormody.doc