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Engagement is important for our students. It is important to get our students as close to the material content of what we desire for them to master and learn. I agree with this especially as a historian for our kids to be active and engaging with the texts given.

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What is Metacognition?
It covers all of the mental activities that serve the acquisition, storage, retrieval and use of knowledge. This is also known as cognition. This is special and unique to all humans.

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What is the Social Learning Theory?
It emphasizes the role of observation and participation for the means of learning for a student. It is important for our students to have that social nature of learning.

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I personally would like to have authentic activities in my classroom. I think it would be great for historians to start something at the start of the year and slowly make progress throughout the year. It can be a project or a paper. Something to think about for sure.

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I think authentic activity is great for our students especially in certain subjects. It helps students take time too understand and figure out specific contexts taking a few days to solve them. It is more of a slow learning process than a fast one taking only a few minutes.

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Situated learning is another debated about topic that all learning takes place in a "context." However, if that context isn't familiar to the learner, the learning process can be poor for that student.

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Examples of Scaffolding in the classroom.

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Scaffolding links with the idea in #12. It's up to us as teachers too engage our students in dialogue in groups or individuals. I agree with this idea in classrooms because it can also be done educationally.

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Social constructivism gives us a high priority too language in the process of intellectual development. Dialogue is important for us and our students to develop those cognitive skills.

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When looking at the egg schema theory photo on page 7 it is crazy how many different categories there are. I wonder how this works in a classroom? Or especially in history?

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What is Schema Theory?
From Piaget's definition it is a branch of cognitive science concerned with how the brain structures knowledge.

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Assimilation and Accommodation (visual example) for in the classroom.

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When learning about Accommodation and Assimilation it has changed my views as a teacher about how kids work in the classroom. How they can change and adapt to new lessons, subjects, or curriculums.

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What is Assimilation?
Assimilation is the process of taking in information or fully understating the ideas or information given.

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What is Accommodation?
Accommodation is a term created by Piaget that describes what occurs when new information or experiences causes us to modify our existing schemas.

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What is Cognitive Science?
A study of how people learn, remember and interact, often with a strong emphasis on mental processes and often with an emphasis on modern technologies.

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What is Cognitive Psychology?
A study of mental processes such as learning, perceiving, remembering, using language, reasoning and solving problems.

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The stages of development from Piaget was interesting to learn about especially as a teacher on how kids might act at during certain age groups.

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Jean Piaget (1896-1980) one of the earliest proponents of a constructivist approach to learning and one of he best psychologists in the field of Child development