Chapter 8 - Learning and Cognition in Context

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Across
  1. 4. theoretical perspective emphasizing the importance of society and cultural in promoting learning and development
  2. 6. inability to master basic reading skills in a developmentally typical time frame despite normal reading instruction; often has biological roots
  3. 10. group of people who share common interests and goals and interact their efforts in pursuit of those interests and goals
  4. 11. discussion between an adult and a child in which the adult helps the child make sense of an event they are mutually experiencing
  5. 13. classroom activity similar to an activity that students are apt to encounter in the outside world
  6. 14. enduring social group that has fairly explicit social and economic structures and collective institutions and activities
  7. 16. tendency to seek information that confirms rather than discredits current beliefs
  8. 18. enhancement of thinking through the use of physical objects and technology, concepts and symbols of one's culture, and social collaboration and support
  9. 20. classroom activity where students acquire new knowledge and skills while working on a complex multifaceted project that yields a concrete end product
  10. 21. class in which teachers and students actively work to create a body of knowledge and help one another learn
Down
  1. 1. classroom activity where students acquire new knowledge and skills while working on a complex problem similar to one might exist in the outside world
  2. 2. ability to hear the distinct sound of which spoken words are comprised
  3. 3. integrated set of concepts and principles developed to explain a particular phenomenon
  4. 5. initially participating at the fringe of a community of practice as a way of gaining knowledge and skills related to the group's typical ways of doing things
  5. 7. knowledge, behavior and thinking skills acquired and used within certain contexts
  6. 8. theoretical perspective that focus on people's collective efforts to impose meaning on the world
  7. 9. focuses on how people's general physical, social, and cultural surroundings support learning, development and behavior
  8. 12. instruction and learning that occur largely within the context of digital technologies
  9. 15. culturally based set of assumptions about reality that influence understanding of a wide variety of phenomena
  10. 17. possessions of different areas of expertise by various members of a social group, such that group members must rely on one another to maximize their personal and collective performance and success
  11. 19. physical or symbolic representation of a phenomenon or system that depicts its key components and important interrelationships