Situated Cognition

   What is learning?  Acquiring new information or skills but through activity and a context.  The heart of situated cognition is that the learner readily applies knowledge at it is acquired:  he or she learns by doing.  I agree that school is too often boring, too easy, and unapplicable to life because the kids are simply fed information that has nothing to do with anything.   Example: in Spanish I could certainly give my students worksheets and have them translate sentences but after one sentence of Mario ________ (ir) al Mexico the kids want to pull their hair out, or mine as the case may be.

This learning method is probably the closest to how I ran my classroom.  I figured that if I was going to teach my students anything about web development, it better be applicable and usable in the real world.  For this to happen, my classroom needed to imitate as much as possible the real world.

Usually I post how my learning definition has changed, and rarely talk about the learning theory of the week.  Well, this week I am discussing the theory of the week because it impacted my learning so much. 

Once again I look at my definition of learning and I don't think it has changed too much.Click here to read more »