Learning

Topics to be added

• Learning skills
  • Reflection
  • Metacognition
  • Technology support for learning skills
• Collaborative learning
  • Computer supported collaborative learning
• Current research interest: The evaluation of learning applications

Useful summaries:

• The following link is a summary that I've made using a presentation tool called 'Prezi' of Piaget's theory of cognitive development while reading Anita Woolfolk's book 'Educational Psychology'.
• Vygotsky's sociocultural theory taken from Anita Woolfolk's book 'Educational Psychology' (the Prezi is still not complete yet).

Piaget believed that cognitive development has to come before learning -- the child had to be cognitively "ready" to learn. "Learning is subordinated to development and not vice-versa".

Vygotsky on the other hand believed that learning was an active process that does not have to wait for readiness. In fact, "properly organized learning results in mental development and sets in motion a variety of developmental processes that would be impossible apart from learning". (from Woolfolk's book)