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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.
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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.

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Developing Technological Knowledge.

TL;DR: In this paper, the development of technology knowledge in school should aim at developing a rich interconnectedness among the ways in which technological meanings can be understood by learners, so that learners experience transformations in relation to themselves, technological practice and their knowledge.
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Supporting orchestration of blended CSCL scenarios in distributed learning environments

Prieto Santos, +1 more
TL;DR: The concept of "patrones atomicos" in TICs has been studied extensively in the last few decades as mentioned in this paper, with a focus on the problem of orquestación.
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Aerospace Supply Chains as Evolutionary Networks of Activities: Innovation via Risk‐Sharing Partnerships

TL;DR: In this article, a perspective of supply chains as complex activity networks is used for data analysis based on in-depth interviews in a global setting, which provides evidence of changing relationships in commercial aerospace supply chains.
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Some Key Issues in Creating Inquiry-Based Instructional Practices that Aim at the Understanding of Simple Electric Circuits

TL;DR: In this article, a series of 12 grade 9 physics lessons on simple electric circuits on simple circuits was analyzed, where instruction was designed addressing known conceptual problems and attempting to create a physics (research) culture in the classroom.
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Implementing Communicative Language Teaching Method in Saudi Arabia: Challenges Faced by Formative Year Teachers in State Schools

TL;DR: This article explored the challenges faced by Saudi English teachers in their teaching practice that might prevent them from teaching for communicative purposes and implementing Communicative Language Teaching approach (CLT) in their classes.
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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

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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Thought and language

Lev Vygotsky
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.