Fulya Log

Revision as of 20:29, 9 September 2014

--Fulya 20:29, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Cognitive Apprenticeship
10:10pm – 10:30pm
9/8/14

• Definition: How people learn something by working with and observing others in a community
• Practice in the late 1980s and early 1990s
• Origin: education researchers inspired by anthropological observations of things such as building furniture or delivering babies
• cognitive apprenticeship – thinking about thinking
• traditional apprenticeship – physical skills
• humans learn in social manner and observing
• the practice of making one’s metacognition visible to learners in one’s community of practice
• metacognition – awareness and understanding of one’s own thought process
• cognition – the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience and the senses

1. modeling – perform task for students to see and understand (thinking out loud, slowing down and explaining intermediate steps)
2. coaching – watch student perform the task and give hints and feedback from the sidelines
3. scaffolding – help student perform the task (accomplishing the task together)
4. articulation – students think out loud
5. reflection – student compare their process to an expert’s process or a model of a good process
6. exploration – students encouraged to go out and tackle the process on their own with less and less help

• articulation and reflection disappeared (independent practice)
• exploration = fading
• left with modeling, coaching, scaffolding and fading.
• Goal is to develop metacognition and self-monitoring in students (ability of reflection in action)