Friday, October 10, 2014

Composition Theory class, Friday 10/10/14

Vygotsky

 Zone of Proximal Development

(in between independent performance and assisted performance) student can kind of do it on their own.
Ex: pointing at every object in order to count them, eventually the student will outgrow the need for the tool, the pointing (AKA scaffold).
More emphasis on nurture instead of nature

Social context

influences not only what we think, but how we think it.
learning happens not after the brain has sufficiently developed [Piaget], but while development is happening

ergo....
what scaffolds do we, this class, need to understand composition theory better?


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