My Explanation: Internalisation of children's play with in an environment, it is through experience we build imagination of possibilities. This then contributes to the ability of creating affordances.

Example: Playing may encourage children to use the imagination which in later stages and in game situations be used to imagine plays or specific situations which also leads to the development of the childs ability to create or identify affordances.

Importance to Skill: Imagination of possibilities provides us with multiple affordances in game situations and contributes to perception-action coupling in terms of perceiving, imagining the out comes or possibles courses of actions to then act. 

My Explanation:Social constructivism is learning through social interaction with both others and the environment. This relates to learning in situated context or game situations where environmental factors and individuals  in the game have an affect on the learner.

Example: Putting a football player in a game situation allows them to practice skill while experiencing real life game situations and learning from these interactions.

Importance to Skill: Skill is social, they are deployed with in socially determined contexts. 

My Explanation:  The subconscious culture and dispositions dependent on the situated context. Acknowledging the rules of the game but also internalized rules influence the way an action is performed.

Example: In netball, if the floor is wet you dont play bounce passes. This is not a set rule, but is internalized and becomes a subconscious habit.

Importance to Skill: To be skillful habitus is important, it means we do not waist tie being discursively conscious of rules or technique, and can focus on achieving the goal in the best possible way.

My Explanation: Our body is conscious of where we are in space. A kinesthetic consciousness via our proprioceptors. Constantly refined, full body awareness and more than just muscle memory. Our corporeal consciousness tells us what we can and can not do.

Example: When skateboarding, through proprioceptors and kinesthetic awareness the child is consciously aware of their constraints and what they are capable of doing. Their corporeal consciousness tells them whether can perform a kick flip and successfully land it.

Importance to Skill: It is important to be aware of constraints and what the body is able to do, skill is about successfully achieving goals. The player must be aware of what they can and can not do to know how to successfully execute and action to achieve the goal or objective. 

Example: If a player has a saw shoulder and lifts his arm, pain occurs, so he tries to move it in another way. The loop continues to feedback whether the movement is painful or performable which enables the player to know his degrees of freedom and what he is capable of doing. 

Importance to Skill: Feedback loops relay important information which allows players and teams to self organize and reorganize accordingly based on feedback. 

Example: When the pace of a game is slow or stopped our pace is a walk and so our body self organizes and coordinates body parts by organizing each one to walk. When the game gets faster and the player runs the body reorganizes to coordinate body parts to enable a running movement.

Importance to Skill: Individuals and teams self organize to achieve the most efficient movement pattern. 

Example:  The seven dimensions of relational dynamics are
 
1. Interactions
2. Connections
3. Systems
4. Degrees of Freedom
5. Self-organisation
6. Complexity
7. Emergence

Importance to Skill: Players movement solutions are an emergent result of relational dynamics of a game context. 

Example: A football came emerges from players self organizing around the constraints and rules put in place.

Importance to Skill: Games are situated and the outcome is unpredictable, to play skillfully we need to train in situated contexts that mirror the complexity of a game. 

My Explanation:  A description of a system that is between order and chaos. 

Example: A game is complex if it is not so structured it stops but not so uncontrollable that its chaotic. 

Importance to Skill: A fluid game is complex and is not stilted nor out of control. 

Example: A game is the emergent process of continuous local interactions. 

Importance to Skill: Emergent behavior is the result of relational dynamics with in a situated context. 

Example: The technique os throwing over arm is to face side on, step forward, rotate at the core and then follow through extending the arm and releasing the ball when the arm and fingers are fully extended. 

Importance to Skill: In terms of non-linear pedagogy, we should be looking at technique not as the starting point of skill learning, but incorporating it in to a situated context where players can explore the possibilities and optimal techniques to achieve the desired outcome using the least amount of effort and energy.

Example: Gravity is a variant that remains the same and is unchanged. 

Importance to Skill: Adapting to invariants or manipulating them to the players advantage to contribute to achieveing the desired out come. 

Example: Connections could include family, multiple coaches, video games or even TV shows. 

Importance to Skill: Multiple connections offer a variety of knowledge to take from and apply to learnt movement. 

Example: A player in a team crosses over so the other player balances the court by dropping back or crossing over. 

Importance to Skill: The movement of one player affets the other, the interdependent interactions with in a team contribute to its ability to self organize effeciently. 

Example: A player has the ability to freeze movement and use shorter movements to perform more controlled actions. 

Importance to Skill: Skilled players are able to exploit these degrees of freedom in the correct situations to their advantage in order to achieved the desired outcome. 

My Explanation: A learning theory that refers to learning as a behavior, a change in behavior is an indication that learning is occurred. This is achieved through the use of punishment and reward for correct band bad behavior. 

Example: The player is told to kick the ball in front of the player. When the player begins kicking the ball into the space in front of the player the coach rewards the player with verbal appraisal which is seen as positive reinforcement for correct behavior.  

Importance to Skill: While positive feedback lets the player know when they are doing the right thing, rope learnt movements are not useful in a game as a player is then unable to think for them selves and are use to being given instructions. This makes it hard for them to act under pressure or in situated contexts where there are multiple relational dynamics influencing the player and their decision making. 

My Explanation: Information processing learning theory that sees the learner as a computer for processing information. 

Example: An example could be linking new concepts to old concepts through schemas. This could be learning to pass one way and then mental processing new ways of throwing the ball e.g over arm, one armed, lob pass or bounce pass based on old mental framework of basic passing that the learner is using to process new information. 

Importance to Skill: Contemporary ways of learning avoid treating the learner as a computer or machine as no movement is the same, each action is a new movement and so it is important when learning skill for the learner to discover and explore these movements through social interactions in a situated learning environment. 

Example: Tuakana Teina is a relationship between a novice and experienced learner where the novice learns off of the experienced learner but the role can be reversed. Individual constructivism looks at the learner constructing new ideas based on prior knowledge. 

Importance to Skill: This is important to skill and links to relational dynamics where skill learning is seen as an emergent process of the local interactions occurring and how learners acquire skill and learn off of one another. The learner also constructs new plays and movement solutions based on their constructions of knowledge through the exploration of possibilities in a situated context. 

My Explanation: The digital aged learning theory constructing new knowledge through the use of social media, the internet and other digital resources. 

Example: Using the internet to google the definition of a word that a learner is not familiar with. 

Importance to Skill: Players have multiple connections that provide them with different sources of informatio and knowledge surrounding skill learning. Digital sources such as youtube can be used to view previous games to aid visual learning for a player/leanrer. 

My Explanation: A way of thinking about a movement in parts. Referrs to the body as a machine and uses schemas to create movement. 

Example: Decisions are made in the brain before performing the skill, then all information for one movement is sent in a single message. The message is received by the muscles which perform the movement and then feedback may or may not be available. 

Importance to Skill: Not every movement is the same and so motor programmes and schema limit the variation of movement and degrees of freedom of a player that would be present in a game context. 

My Explanation: A non sequential way of learner which sees the learner as more active rather than passive in their learning, and incorporates situated learning. 

Example: Changing the constraints of the game such as only being able to pass from the chest in half court which means players are still in a game situation but are focusing on a certain aspect of the game. 

Importance to Skill: Manipulating constraints of a game so the learner can focus on certain skill sets while experiencing the variability of a situated context. 

My Explanation: A teacher dominated approach to teaching that is repetitive and has little or no variability, and limits the learner to confined knowledge. 

Example: Teacher/coach asks the players to pair up and do 100 chest passes. 

Importance to Skill: Does not incorporate situated learning and limits the players ability to cope with variability in a situated context. 

My Explanation: The most efficeint pathway of movement to achieve the desired outcome accordingly to the constraints in the situated context. 

Example: Based on the constraints, a player dribbles the ball through the court, a defender blocks his path way so instead of running through he passes the ball to a free player who is close to the goal. 

Importance to Skill: Movement solutions afford players to solve problems based on constraints with in a game context. 

Example: A switch is a simple system. A car is an example of a complicated system and a person is a complex system. 

Importance to Skill: A team is a complex system made up of multiple individual complex systems. The outcome of the teams performance of movement is unpredictable and so when training and practicing, it needs to be performed in a situated context to enable players to adapt and self organize in a complex game situation. 

My Explanation: Rewards and problems that make the game joyful or rewarding for achieving the goal of the game. 

Example: Scoring 1 point in the circle in basketball but scoring two from the outside. 

Importance to Skill: Encourages competitive play and skillful problem solving under pressure to achieve the desired outcome. 

My Explanation: Players are components of a complex system with the ability to self organize based upon information and act upon those choices. 

Example: A WA in a anetball game who contributes by playing their dominant role as play maker in the team and makes choices that enable the ball to get to the shooters in the circle. 

Importance to Skill: Players have to be able to adapt and self organize accordingly in a game situation and create movement solutions to achieve the over all goal of the game to be skillful

My Explanation: A specific play or focus goal to obtain a the desired outcome successfully. 

Example: A team may have a specific set up in defense, such as a diamond, which  means one

Importance to Skill: A strategy contributes to the way a team self organizes, it acts as a guideline to which the whole team is aware of and self organize with in. 

My Explanation: The adaption to the specific context in order to combat a specific action or play. 

Example: Man on man defense limits the attacking teams space and stops the momentum of play. It also works in attack, holding the player create space to drive into. 

Importance to Skill: Contributes to a players movement solution and ability to achieve the desired out come either individually in a specific position or as a team.