Nancy,+Randy,+and+Denise

Questions: 1. What was it like to read blogs and not meet face to face? Driver, Pintrich, Brown. Likes - More feedback from other members of the class Dislikes - Did not obtain a clearer understanding of material 2. Lave and Wenger – didn’t talk about teaching?? Learning theory does not equal teaching theory. (A teaching theory does not exist) Learning is a phenomena theory Teaching is a theory of practice and is not determined by learning theory.

3. Code words? Catagories - both activities are social whether you interact with something (books or people) - Each learning theory explains the same situation in different ways Epistemology - where is knowledge stimulus and response (behaviorism)

__Cognitive -__ Conceptual Change Individual - inside the head Reason Goals Beliefs Motivation Availability and Accessibility Transmission conceptual ecology Metacognition Interest Assimilation Accommodation

Cognitive apprenticeship - falls between

__Situated__ Lave and Wenger Society - Knowledge outside Artifacts Society Activity Situated Learning Historical Interaction Motivation in society Zone of Proximal Development Culture enculturation participation Everything seems to be situated. There is no such thing as isolated learning.

4. Lave and Wenger – Legitimate peripheral participation (LPP) Apprenticeship?? Who is the practioner? Is it the teacher? Example: Culture of Physics vs. culture of learning Do we need a physicist in the classroom to have a physics culture? Teacher are not science practioners. A teacher could be considered an "old-timer" who is able to provide knowledge to the "new comers" or students with

What is the difference between Apprenticeship and Legitimate peripheral Participation? Individual teacher verses the community as teachers