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Modeling for Meaningful Learning

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In this paper, the authors argue that the goal of formal education should be meaningful learning and that meaningful learning is necessarily social, collaborative, intentional, authentic, and active, and that the result of meaningful learning lies in its cognitive residue, the learner's mental model.
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In the first part of the chapter, we argue that the goal of formal education should be meaningful learning. Meaningful learning is necessarily social, collaborative, intentional, authentic, and active. The result of meaningful learning lies in its cognitive residue, the learner’ mental model.

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Assessment in Game-Based Learning: Foundations, Innovations, and Perspectives

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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

TL;DR: The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus as discussed by the authors was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) published during his lifetime, and it immediately convinced many of its readers and captured the imagination of all.
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Learning by expanding: An activity-theoretical approach to developmental research

TL;DR: 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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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

TL;DR: In this article, Fields has given us a splendid new translation of the greatest work of sociology ever written, one we will not be embarrassed to assign to our students, in addition she has written a brilliant and profound introduction.
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Mental Models: Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness

Marilyn Ford, +1 more
- 01 Dec 1985 - 
TL;DR: Johnson-Laird as discussed by the authors argues that we apprehend the world by building inner mental replicas of the relations among objects and events that concern us, and provides both a blueprint for building such a model and numerous important illustrations of how to do it.