Scaffold (tool for understanding) given to us by Professor Silva (thanks!)
Sociocultural Theory Writing Prompt
What is sociocognitive apprenticeship?What is an apprenticeship?What does cognitive mean?What would be a cognitive apprenticeship?What would be a social apprenticeship?What would be a sociocognitive apprenticeship?
Interpret this quote: “Rather than viewing knowledge as existing inside the heads of individual participants or in the external world, sociocultural theory views meaning as being negotiated at the intersection of individuals, culture, and activity” (p. 208).
“Tools include a variety of mental, linguistic, and physical devices used to enhance writers’ performance, including notational systems, writing symbols, instruments, diagrams, graphic organizers, text structures, mnemonics, writing implements, procedures, rules of thumb, grammar and spell checkers, and any tool used in the transformation and construction process....These tools support cognitive performance by helping writers to organize mental reasoning by offloading aspects of thought or functions onto the tool, and by making elements of the activity more visible, accessible, and attainable….” (p. 211). In what ways does this writing formula, which is learned in high school, support cognitive performance: All paragraphs should follow this structure--Main Idea, Evidence, Analysis, Link (MEAL). In other words, in what ways does it organize thinking, offload aspects of thinking, and make writing and thinking more visible?
“Compatible with Vygotsky’s thinking, procedural facilitators offer semiotic tools that enable teachers to make visible the character of the particular text forms, the strategies and procedures that underlie the text’s construction and revision, and the discourse structures and language practices that permit writers to realize their writing goals” (p. 213)
Sociocognitive apprenticeship - working alongside an expert, expert leads by example, like a teacher reading a book to her class or a teenager learning to drive by watching parentsWhat is a community of practice? What are its characteristics?
Cognitive/semiotic tools - asking questions, defining words, making connections with prior knowledge, examples
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