Cognition and Instruction

Foundations and Bibliographies

• APA Style Guides.
• Summary of Key Principles of cognition for midterm preparation.
• Class Bibliography. Our collection of cognition references.
• Theory Into Practice. Online summary of different learning/instructional models.
• Glossary of Terms Lorraine Sherry's study aid for students.
• Online Bibliographies. Last year's cognition bib and other useful bibs.
• Instructional Technology Annotated Bibliography. Created by IT doc students as part of Comps.
• Sundar. Symbolic versus connectionist approaches to modelling intelligence. Heavy but good.
• Wilson & Cole (1996) Excerpt on Sweller's Cognitive Load Theory

  Situated Cognition and Cognitive Apprenticeships

• Brown, Collins & Duguid. Classic paper on situated cognition.
• Lave & Wenger. Describes "legitimate peripheral participation."
• Non-Cartesian Cognitive Science. Philosophical paper on constructivism.
• Berryman. Designing learning environments/cognitive apprenticeships.
• Jonassen. Using mental models in learning environments.
• Shared Understanding: Implications for CSCW. Doc student's comps paper.

  Schools and Teachers

• Engines for Education. Roger Schank on case-based education and simulation design.

  Corporate Training

• Things That Help Us Perform. Book review of Norman's Things That Make Us Smart.
• Performance technology. Resources in Human Performance Technology.

  Systems and Organizational Cultures

• Kevin Kelly's Out of Control. Excerpts from Kelly's book on complex adaptive systems.
• Cybernetics, Systems Theory and Complexity. Martin Ryder's links on complexity theory.
• Organizational learning. Martin's links on organizational learning (Senge, etc.).

  Mediation of Culture and Tools

• Gordon Wells, The Zone of Proximal Development and Its Implications for Learning and Teaching.
• Gordon Wells, Dialogic Inquiry: Vygotsky's Legacy.
• Judith Rich Harris's controversial paper on parents' (lack of) influence on children.
• Salomon & Perkins, Individual and Social Aspects of Learning. Good article attempting to reconcile different scales of analysis.

  Constructivist Learning Environments

• Learning environments. Martin's links on learning environments.
• Virtual learning communities. Martin's links on MOOs, MUDs, and online learning environments.
• Teaching and Learning on the Net.
• Farquar, Social Construction of Meaning on the Internet.
• Barfurth, Children's Disagreements in a Learning Environment.
• Brent Wilson, Why We Talk About Learning Environments.
• Teaching & Learning with Internet Tools.
• CSILE homepage.

Class Links

• Cognition Pages of students and others.
• Cognitive Critiques from Fall 1997.
• Intellectual Autobiographies.
• FAQs on Cognition.