Situated learning: Bridging sociocultural and cognitive theorising

Bridging Cognitive Programs and Machine Learning

I. abstract While great advances are made in pattern recognition and machine learning, the successes of such fields remain restricted to narrow applications and seem to break down when training data is scarce, a shift in domain occurs, or when intelligent reasoning is required for rapid adaptation to new environments. In this work, we list several of the shortcomings of modern machine-learning ...

Sociocultural Learning with Groupware

Cognitive abilities, sociocultural background and academic achievement.

The influence of students' sociocultural background on academic achievement is a well established fact. Research also points out that sociocultural background is related to students' cognitive abilities and these have an effect on their academic achievement. However, the mediator role of cognitive abilities on the relationship between sociocultural background and academic achievement is less we...

Everyday Cognition and Situated Learning

Everyday cognition and situated learning investigates learning as an essentially social phenomena that takes place at the juncture of everyday interactions. These learning interactions are generated by the social relations, cultural history, and particular artifacts and physical dimensions of the learning environment. Brent Wilson and Karen Myers (2000) point out that there are distinct advanta...

Appropriation and Ontogeny: Identifying Compatibility Between Cognitive and Sociocultural Contributions to Adult Learning and Development

On their own, the cognitive psychology and sociocultural constructivist perspectives fails to furnish a complete account of adult learning and development. In the past, these perspectives have been viewed as being incompatible because their origins reside in rival and distinct areas of theorising. This paper seeks to propose a more comprehensive basis for adult learning and development by advan...