What is learning: I really enjoyed the reading on the restaurant and shopping schema more so than the prison/wrestling, or music/cards experiment. It is true that people have a mental image of what a place is suppose to look like and what goes on there. In a kitchen we would assume that there would be pots, pans, plates, and forks, unless of course it belonged to a 18 year old just starting out in life. I know that I learn better when I incorporate new information into a cognitive image that is already there.
How can learning be best effectuated by a teacher: What I tried to do in this weeks lesson was to have the students get an mental image of the topic I was going to address, and used an exploration exercise to get the students to incorporate the new topic into the old. I used tools that the students were already familiar with and showed them were they are in the new environment. I hope my lesson will be useful to orientate my students to the Office 2007 working environment.
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