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If we acknowledge that "playing school" is not the same as being a successful citizen in the real-world, then why don't we change the structure of our schools to accommodate more functional learning?
 * Would have to change the entire structure of school
 * Changing anything is incredibly difficult - even teaching inquiry which is relatively new in a traditional classroom is challenging for new teachers. Adds an incredible amount of pressure to be doing something different with little support.
 * We still think school is beneficial and applicable to the real world - you are always learning something

Studies showed that if learners were exposed to and learned one type of software and then were given similar but different software, they learned the additional software faster than those who encountered it for the first time. He says this demonstrates transfer of knowledge from one context to another. Greeno would say that no transfer actually occured, but that the learning was independent of the prior. - Jennifer

If knowledge is only taught a certain way or in a certain context without further elaboration, the ability to transfer that information to another context will be limited. If the knowledge is presented in several different ways or in different contexts, the ability to transfer is greater. Therefore, it appears that teaching more generally rather than specifically would be more beneficial. The ability to transfer knowledge would be greater. - Denise
 * we think transfer exists when contexts are similar
 * difficulty when different contexts
 * What about if understanding suffers when teaching becomes more general? It is sometimes more beneficial to be specific in example and learn it well for understanding, and after understanding make it more general.
 * Where is the balance between ability to transfer info and learning the specifics of a particular field? Is the idea of specializing null and void now?
 * Transfer - weakness of cognitive theory
 * Breadth vs. Deapth - When learning, what should come first, how to do it or the process behind figuring out how to do it?
 * School tends to err on the side of big ideas as opposed to specific examples

Problems with cognitive theory: Cognitive: individual Situative: social/group

Can anything be individual?
 * everything seems to be able to be traced back to something social or situative - we are simply a social species
 * we threw around the idea of people who are the originators of ideas or concepts
 * is that considered transfer? Is it cognitive in the originality that no other person knows the same concept so they could not have learned it from somewhere else, or is it situative in that someone had to teach them and they then transfered that knowledge to a novel idea?

What does situative mean? What defines a social interaction or a certain situation? Does the same computer in different environments count? How far out do we define the situation?