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Designing Effective Learning Environments: Cognitive Apprenticeship Models
It is a common trend in schools- not only elementary and secondary schools, but even college classrooms, adult literacy classes and corporate training courses- to fail to capitalize what is already known about how people learn. There are 5 common assumptions about how people learn and these need to be discussed in order to design effective school-based learning.
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1st Assumption: People predictably transfer learning from one situation to another.
2nd Assumption: Learners are passive receivers of wisdom- vessels into which knowledge is poured.
3rd Assumption: Learning is the strengthening of bonds between stimuli and correct responses.
4th Assumption: Learners are blank slates on which knowledge is inscribed.
5th Assumption: That skills & knowledge, to be transferable to new situations, should be acquired independent of their context of use
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