Tuesday, January 8, 2013

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Views on Modern Cognitive Science


In their essay The cognitive perspective on learning: Ten cornerstone findings, Michael Schneider and Elsbeth Stern introduce the topic on cognitive science with a story on how a motivated teacher teaches the concept of the earth unsuccessfully. The teacher is well prepared and the students are motivated; however, learning doesn’t occur as expected. Modern cognitive science has explained this situation well with a series of findings.
Cognitive science assumes that once a piece of information is learned, it can be accessed later under different environments for different purposes. And further studies show that the cognitive perspective on learning overlaps with other perspectives.