Guided Discovery in a Community of Learn

Guided Discovery in a Community of Learners Brown and Campione, 1994

Echoes of Papert’s powerful ideas: Bruner’s powerful ideas: “lithe and beautiful and immensely generative” ideas (compare to UdB’s understandings, ideas at heart of a field

p213 summarizes empirical basis for progressive education

distributed expertise  237 enduring themes

Possible methods of research on higher-order thinking skills: (248) clinical interviews      what-if thought experiments      analogy and transfer tests

Q: How is the media landscape now (easy, but non-credible answers) challenging to this form of research?      Ex: Annick’s students, marshalling superficial evidence. 

263 misconceptions as “fruitful errors” rather than fatal weaknesses in knowledge edifice

Question for class, cross-cutting disciplines: How to study this sort of learning? If it doesn’t yield the sort of evidence that a researcher knows how to use, it is likely to be ignored. Scott—seeing like a state. 

Also, a challenge in dissemination (“new theory of learning” 264)

How do we drive adoption of the first principles, not the surface prodedures?

Rogers and Shoemaker 1971 on dissemination model: invention, diffusion, consequences Majone and Wildavsky 1978 implementation as evolution