Journal of Interactive Learning Research articles from March 2002

Journal of Interactive Learning Research archives from March 2002

Preface: distributed cognition and educational practice.
March 22, 2002... Traditionally, cognition has been treated as residing in the head, as being a property of the individual mind. To a large extent, current psychological and educational practice is founded upon this conception of cognition. Nevertheless, in...

Distributed cognition and educational practice.
March 22, 2002... The objective of this article is to present a brief historical overview of ideas related to the distribution of cognition, offer a critical appraisal, and outline some of the implications for the teaching and learning practice. First, the...

Distributed cognition and the shared knowledge model of the Mazahua: a cultural approach.
March 22, 2002... The distributed and situated character of informal and nonwestern learning practices has recently become a source of inspiration for the reform of school practices. The notion that cognition and knowledge is to be seen as situationally bound...

Walking or dancing? Images of thinking and learning to think in the classroom.
March 22, 2002... In this article the author explores two different ways of conceptualising the teaching and learning of thinking using transcripts of classroom talk taken from two different empirical studies. The first study describes how teaching ground rules...

"The Dig": distributed cognition and the postmodern classroom.
March 22, 2002... The insights accumulating from advances in distributed cognition pose particular challenges to pedagogical practice. When we consider the significance of material and social configurations in the real business of knowledge building, naturally...

Distributed learning: understanding the emerging workplace knowledge.
March 22, 2002... This article explores cognitive attributes that allow individuals to function effectively in the emerging world of uncertainty, flexibility, and incongruities. The article presents discussion of the changing nature of our society and...

Concept mapping as a medium of shared cognition in computer-supported collaborative problem solving.
March 22, 2002... This article presents an experimental study aimed at investigating the learning effectiveness of concept mapping for computer-supported collaborative problem solving. The main assumption underlying this research is that shared cognition is...

Distributed cognition in the context of virtual collaborative learning.
March 22, 2002... In this article, the authors address the distribution of cognition in small virtual group learning. In particular, they examine how the distribution of cognition is manifested in the context of student-student interaction and how it can be...

A framework for work-based networked learning.
March 22, 2002... This article describes the development of a task-based framework for providing learning within the workplace using networked multimedia. A philosophy is adopted for the framework that builds on the recognition that tasks must reflect the social...

MirandaNet: a learning community--a community of learners.
March 22, 2002... Traditional models of learning have reified into concepts of learning, with the teacher frozen as the embodiment of skills and knowledge that have to be passed on to students. In the United Kingdom, the New Opportunities Funding CD-ROM,...