Situated Cognition

Mayer Article

Dual Coding

Text

Illustrations

Multimodal Learning

Questions:

Delivery?

Presentation?

When?

For whom?

Narration vs. Text?

Situated Cognition

aka. situated learning

bridging apprenticeships - bridging the gap between theoretical learning and real-life application

a lot of problem solving

6 critical features:

• apprenticeship
• collaboration
• reflection
• coaching
• multiple practice
• articulation

Critical Characteristics of Situated Learning

• Authentic Context
• Authentic Activities
• Access to expert performances and modeling
• Multiple roles and perspectives
• Support collaborative construction of knowledge
• Provide coaching and scaffolding at critical times
• Promote reflection to enable abstractions to be formed
• Promote articulation to enable tacit knowledge to be made explicit
• Provide for integrated assessment of learning within the tasks