Learning


 * Quotes from the first day of class 2010:**

"Expanding what you know. Making new connections between concepts/ideas." "Learning is a cognitive process in which information is stored in our brain to be recalled at a later point for application." "Learning is a process when one adapts and accepts new ideas. It also takes place when old understanding/knowledge is challenged and replaced by more logical ideas." "The ability to quire and assimilate information into meaningful, relevant schema which allows a person to remember information." "Converting information into long-term memory."

Lave and Wenger reading:
====Learning "involves the whole person; it implies not only a relation to specific activities but a relation to social communities" (p. 53). Learning is an acceptance and adoption of a piece of knowledge and applying it to one's life.====

"Both [Piagetian and Conceptual change frameworks] view meaning as being made by individuals, and assert that meaning depends on the individual's current knowledge schemes. Learning comes about when those schemes change through the resolution of disequilibration (Driver et al. 1994)."

"Making meaning is thus a dialogic process involving persons-in-conversation, and learning is seen as the process by which individuals are introduced to a culture by more skilled members (Driver et al. 1994)."

"learning can be understood as improved participation in interactive systems...Such improvement involves becoming better attuned to constraints and affordances of activity systems so that the learner's contribution to the interaction is more successful.(Greeno 1997)."

"An aspect of all activity" (Lave and Wenger, p. 38)

According to Barton and Tan (2010) learning is defined as "an embodied activity that involves the ongoing re-creation of practices, roles, and identities among individuals and over time." (p. 189).

"...learning is the result of the interaction between what the student is taught and his current ideas or concepts." (Posner, et al, 1982 p. 211) - this is one definition of learning from authors who are writing from a cognitive perspective

According to Vygotsky(1978), learning happens through interpersonal and intrapersonal processes. Interpersonal process involves the interaction between the learner and knowledgeable other person. Intrapersonal process involves internalization of the tool and sign systems.