Cognitive Apprenticeship and Instructional Technology

Abstract

In earlier times, practically everything was taught by apprenticeship: growing crops, running trades, administering governments. Schools are a recent invention that use many fewer teaching resources. But the computer enables us to go back to a resource-intensive mode of education, in a form we call cognitive apprenticeship. As we argue in the earlier paper, cognitive apprenticeship employs the modeling, coaching, and fading paradigm of traditional apprenticeship, but with emphasis on cognitive rather than physical skills. The basic thesis in this paper is that technology enables us to realize apprenticeship learning environments that were either not possible or not cost effective before. Keywords: Education, Teaching methods, Thinking, Computers and education, Learning, Educational technology, Instructional material.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA203609

Entities

People

  • Allan Collins

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Apprenticeship
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognition
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Education
  • Educational Technology
  • Geometry
  • Governments
  • Instructions
  • Psychology
  • Schools
  • Students
  • Thinking
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Education

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