Learning Sciences

The article focuses on the application of situated learning based on a game "Full Spectrum Warrior", which is useful to review.

thank you burcu for sharing this with us it reminded me the game "SimCity" :)

I wish we had been born in this era. Students are so lucky. I can't imagine learning through such tools. We were all born into textbooks:-(

I can only see Shanghai and HK from China. Why? Why they do not have any results from the rural regions. These 2 cities have special administration and have significantly high GDP. I am not stuck with the idea of "money is everything". But it talks in many cases.

The link is to an interview with Etienne Wenger, who is an educational theorist and practitioner, best known for his formulation (with Jean Lave) of the theory of situated cognition and his more recent work in the field of communities of practice. There are various questions in the interview and can help us understand in detail.

Hi all, I invited my friend, Meliha Tok, who is a teacher of blind students. She is working in a state school, in Mersin. She agreed to share her learning experiences with blind students. She will Also share newspaper reports and new technologies About teaching blind students and people. We are all invited to ask what we want to Learn about learning experiences with learning Of Blind people.

This is a nice little newsletter that mentions some characteristics of situated learning. Some resources on situated learning and its usage in learning environments are offered !

Firstly, it was a nice source to read, thanks for sharing it. I agree with you time concerns, teacher and student charateristics are prominent to implement the principles of situated learning in practice. It is really difficult to create authentic learning environment in our classes under the stess of keeping up with the curriculum which is based on traditional theories of learning. Thus, it is the work of the curriculum specialists to revise the curricula to be more in line with the improvements in the field of learning sciences.

There is a case study which I really advise you to look at it. It is about a political course in which they took a government's problem about content and design of websites. He says "given all the considerations at work in municipal government, the students will decide how the power of the web can best be brought to bear on making government work better."

A naval perspective of situated cognition for decision makers take the right action at the war theater.

This extension or maybe a different application of situated cognition interesting to check out. As far as I understand the model has been used in different military settings and they still offer more alternative usages of it.

thank you pınar for sharing this source it will help us to find relationship of situated cognition with the others :)

"The purpose of the Discovery Retreat is to promote environmentalism through the practice of contextual teaching and learning among teachers and their sutdents. It is our practical and philosophic belief that teachers can play an important role in the preservatin of our environment." "The Discovery Retreat is a program within the Department of Workforce Education, Leadership, and Social Foundations, which ranked 4th in the nation by the U.S. News and World Report. The Department of Workforce Education, Leadership, and Social Foundations is also recognized nationally and internationally for its work in the development of contextual teaching and learning theories and practices in teacher education."

there is much more to learn when you are outside than when you are inside :)

An easy SJT example for us.

Situational judgment tests:a review of recent research http://users.ugent.be/~flievens/sjtreview.pdf

I liked the assessment style here. Thanks..

SJTs have long history of being used for measuring situated cognition; they have been used from 1920's(McDaniel, et. al., 2001). Although SJT has been originated from the conception of measuring dimensions, it has been viewed as a measurement method(e.g., McDaniel, et. al., 2001; Weekly & Jones, 1999) because it has been difficult to delineate the dimensions and situations. The situations represented by scenarios in SJTs are viewed as method from psychometric sense, meaning that situation effect, scenario effect, or method effect are all interchangeable.

This source brings a focus to our readings I think; the assessment part. The example was partly hard for me to follow I have to say,I kinda got lost :) But I found the idea of the togetherness of knowledge dimensions and situational scenarios as methods. Thank you sharing

Canan, you are completely right about the sample SJT for situated cognition. I still try to figure out..But I can share a very easy form of SJT.

I know it's related to our previous topic, but still I like the way she explains; a clear model of the thousands of little things that have to happen as we move from novice to expert and wanted to share with you.

We will talk more about cognitive load theory and its implications in education research later this semester. Thanks for sharing.

Sunny, who is a modern philospher interested in sex, love, femininity and body image has traveeled Uganda, China, India and Cuba to learn the knowledge differences about sex. Her documentary seems an interesting attempt to examine how sexuality is learnt in different caultures.

the page briefly and clearly defines what situated learning is, and shows how to create authentic learning contexts by using digital media. There are very short videos showing situated learning genres and some handouts which can be helpful in the class.

While I was reading about interactive case scenarios, I remembered some of my friends playing a game on the Internet called "fantasy role play". I am sure most of us have already heard about it because it is very popular among METU students. Actually the major aim of the game is to have some fun, but it can also be organized as a learning tool.

Thanks for sharing the examples. I already started thinking about how to integrate these into teacher training programs.

I think it is a useful tool for creating blended learning environment, as situated learning requires us to do so :)

Zoos can be interesting and valuable places to have stiuated learning experiences. I have seen situated learning videos of Australia zoo which has programs like being a zookeper for a day or adapting an animal.

That is such a great idea, it is like totally experiencing but I couldn't reach the website :( :( Maybe restaurants, cafes, museums can be some other locations to be used with students.

websites again http://www.australiazoo.com.au/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV_6BOV09zg

I have found a research proposal abıut bullying prevention, suggesting to use video games which are prepared by situated learning approach.

James Paul Gee is a researcher of literacy studies from Arizona State University. According to him, language is always used from a perspective and always occurs within a context and meaning is socially-constructed. His publications might be worth checking!