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Learning by expanding: An activity-theoretical approach to developmental research
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This chapter discusses the emergence of learning activity as a historical form of human learning and the zone of proximal development as the basic category of expansive research.Abstract:
1. Introduction 2. The emergence of learning activity as a historical form of human learning 3. The zone of proximal development as the basic category of expansive research 4. The instruments of expansion 5. Toward an expansive methodology 6. Epilogue.read more
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Virtual Collaborative Experimentation: An Approach Combining Remote and Local Labs
TL;DR: The research presented in this paper shows how lab work can be organized into three phases: prelab, lab, and postlab, all supported by a Web-based experimental portal and a set of tools, some of which are connected to real lab devices.
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Crossing boundaries: lecturers’ perspectives on the use of whatsapp to support teaching and learning in higher education
TL;DR: It is argued that mobile technology such as WhatsApp can, by acting as a boundary object, assist in increasing immediacy and connection not only in informal, but also in formal blended and open distance learning contexts, facilitating reflection, coordination, identification and, in some cases, with students’ control and ownership, transformation.
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Activity Theory and Ontology.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors re-examine Yrio Engestrom's activity theory as a technology of knowledge designed to enable positive transformations of specific practices and question its lack of engagement with the philosophical tradition it claims to inherit and its misappropriation of the Vygotskian legacy.
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Situative Frameworks for Engineering Learning Research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the literature on learning with the aim of building a framework that can guide future research on engineering learning, and make the case for a framework focusing on situativity and learning in engineering settings.
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Model building for conceptual change
TL;DR: It is argued that building computer-based models of the ideas and processes that students are studying is the most conceptually engaging technology-based activity possible with the greatest contribution to conceptual change.
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Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes
TL;DR: In this paper, Cole and Scribner discuss the role of play in children's development and play as a tool and symbol in the development of perception and attention in a prehistory of written language.
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Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
Amos Tversky,Daniel Kahneman +1 more
TL;DR: The authors described three heuristics that are employed in making judgements under uncertainty: representativeness, availability of instances or scenarios, and adjustment from an anchor, which is usually employed in numerical prediction when a relevant value is available.
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The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action
Barry Checkoway,Donald A. Schön +1 more
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Thought and language
TL;DR: Kozulin has created a new edition of the original MIT Press translation by Eugenia Hanfmann and Gertrude Vakar that restores the work's complete text and adds materials that will help readers better understand Vygotsky's meaning and intentions as discussed by the authors.