Applications

• Name applications for learning and revision

  • Cues
  • Repetition
  • Attaching meaning
  • Discovery learning
  • Key stages
  • Mentoring programmes - Vygotsky
  • Play with objects - Bruner
  • Scaffolding
• Outline Discovery Learning


  • E.g. Symbolic play
  • Child figures out new things for themselves independently without support
  • Works because Piaget said children are little scientists
• Outline playing with objects as application for learning

  • Children play with objects and touch them
  • Works because Bruner said touching objects to learn allows child to develop internal schemas
• Outline mentoring programmes for learning / revision

  • Mentoring programmes
  • Works because Vygotsky said that children can acquire more advanced skills when working in their zone of proximal development with a more knowledgeable other
• Outline scaffolding as a strategy for learning

  1. Recruitment - get attention & stick to task
  2. Reduction in degrees of freedom - tutor simplifies task
  3. Direction maintenance - enthusiasm and keep task in front of eyes
  4. Marking critical features - highlight most relevant features of task
  5. Frustration control - tutor supports child through stress but avids too much dependence
  6. Demonstration - tutor models task for child to imitate

  • Works because children recognise what the situation looks like, allowing them to produce the steps to solve the problem