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| The ability to apply what you have learned in one context to another context. |
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| General Transfer Versus Specific Transfer |
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| when learning transfers beyond the scope of the original leaning material. Specific transfer is when learning transfer only to other similar material. |
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| when transfer helps up in a new situation. |
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| when transfer hurts us in a new situation. A solution in one situation does not necessarily work in all situations. We can get stuck trying to apply a solution that worked in the past to a situation where it won't work o isn't optimal. |
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is automatic. The spontaneous transfer of highly learned skills to a new situation.
- The Karate Kid (wax on wax off converts to karate)
- the key to low road transfer is to practive a skill as many times as possible until it becomes automatic.
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is intentional. Consciously applying strategies learned in one situation to a new situation.
- You may, someday, consciously apply what you have learned in this class in your own classroom.
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What is Knowledge Telling?
What are the basics of Knowledge Telling?
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"Psychology of the natural" what we are "programmed" to do.
The basics of Knowledge Telling:
- writing does not involve much planning or goal setting
- Writing does involve simple retrieval of knowledge from memory
- Very little revision is done
- Little time is devoted to task
- Knowldge is "moved" from the mind to the paper WITHOUT being transformed
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What is Knowledge Transforming?
What are the basics of Knowledge Transforming? |
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"Psychology of the problematic" what we struggle to learn.
The basics:
- Writers use composition process to develop taught--in addition to conveying information
- Writers review and examine their writing, question statements, make revisions
- Writing is an interaction between knowledge processing and text processing
- Knowledge (what is in the mind) is qualitatively different after the writing than before.
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| What is the difference between Knowledge Telling and Knowledge Transforming? |
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Knowledge Transforming is writers creating their own ideas and putting them into text, they may be based off of things that they have heard before, but they are revised.
Knowledge Telling is students retelling or rewriting a story that they know or have heard.
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| What is Learned Helplessness? |
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| A mental condition in which one becomes unable to help oneself due to previous failed attempts at controlling one's life. Example: the cirucs elephant that has chains on it until it stops pulling, then throughout it's life if a rope is placed on the elephant it will not resist. |
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