Inert+Knowledge

knowledge that people can remember when specifically asked to remember it, but it is not used when confronted with a context in which to actually use the knowledge. An example of inert knowledge given by the The Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt (1990) is logarithms. Most students view logarithms as just something needlessly complicated to solve on a math worksheet rather than a powerful tool to simplify computations with large numbers. This phrase was initially coined by White in 1929.

References:
 * Anchored Instruction and Its Relationship to Situated Cognition**. The Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt //Educational Researcher//, Vol. 19,No. 6 pp.2-10


 * The Aims of Education**. A.N. Whitehead MacmillanNew York, 1929