Chapter 7 Outline: Knowledge Construction
I.
Constructive Processes in Learning
A.
Construction Storage
i.
Different people often construct different meanings – they
each bring unique prior experiences and knowledge to the
situation
ii.
Prior knowledge and expectations are likely to influence
learning when new information is unclear
B.
Construction in Retrieval
i.
A
reconstruction error
is when people fill in gaps in what
they’re retrieved based on what seems logical
ii.
Individual Constructivism
are theories that focus on how
people make meaning out of their experiences
C.
Knowledge Construction as a Social Process
i.
Socially constructed knowledge is shared by two or more
people simultaneously –
Social Constructivism
ii.
Learners think about a problem together, share ideas, and
work together to draw conclusions or develop solutions –
Distributed Cognition
a.
learners benefit in a variety of ways through this method (page
236), both academically and socially
II.
Organizing Knowledge
A. Concepts
i.
A
Concept
is a way of mentally grouping or categorizing
objects or events that are similar.
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- Fall '08
- Fissler
- Social Constructionism, C. Knowledge Construction, Knowledge Construction
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