Wk 5 Reading Response by Madyson Partain

Transfer of Learning

mpartain0023 — 2024-02-07 00:00:44 UTC

The transfer of learning is when the knowledge or skills learned in one situation is used in a different situation.

Near vs Far Transfer

mpartain0023 — 2024-02-07 00:29:17 UTC

Near transfer occurs between closely similar contexts.

Ex) Drive a car to driving a boat

Far transfer occurs between context with very little similarities.

Ex) Playing chess to leading a military

Ways to Promote Transfer of Learning

mpartain0023 — 2024-02-07 00:33:33 UTC

Help students achieve initial learning

Practice transfer

Provide hints

Expose students to concepts or procedures in multiple contexts

Make conditions of applicability explicit

Create bridging experiences between classes

Similarity Between Old and New Contexts

mpartain0023 — 2024-02-07 00:36:02 UTC

Context increasingly dissimilar and removed

in class following instruction
for homework
on a test three weeks later
in a different course
outside of school in a real-life situations

Depths of Initial Learning

mpartain0023 — 2024-02-07 00:38:15 UTC

Shallow understanding- not likely to transfer

Deeper understanding- more likely to transfer but not certain

Creativity

mpartain0023 — 2024-02-07 00:42:50 UTC

Creativity is not a skill, and cannot be taught or learned. Creativity is a quality or characteristic that a person possesses, it's a trait and not a state.

Psychological Safety

mpartain0023 — 2024-02-07 00:44:25 UTC

Teachers can provide an environment that encourages students to take risks, safe in the knowledge that their mistakes will be tolerated with understanding.

Memory

mpartain0023 — 2024-02-07 00:47:11 UTC

Memory is also a trait and cannot be learned, but can be trained and improved through high focus and huge investment of time.

Positive vs Negative Transfer

mpartain0023 — 2024-02-07 01:01:40 UTC

Positive transfer is when previous learning compliments the new learning.

Ex) Recruiting soccer players for a kicker in football

Negative transfer is when the previous information learned interferes with the new learning.

Ex) Learning to drive on the right side of the road then traveling to another country where they drive on the left side

Is chess the answer?

mpartain0023 — 2024-02-07 03:15:31 UTC

Intelligent players play better chess, but playing chess does not help cognitive skills learned in one domain transfer to another domain.

Far Transfer

mpartain0023 — 2024-02-07 03:17:56 UTC

It is very clear that the level of reliable evidence to support far transfer decreases in relation to the quality of the research.

High vs Low Road Transfer

mpartain0023 — 2024-02-07 03:20:29 UTC

High- road transfer is mindful and involves deliberate abstraction and search for connections across transfer tasks

Low- road transfer involves stimulus conditions that trigger well-practiced, automated responses acquired in the prior learning context.

Specific vs General Transfer

mpartain0023 — 2024-02-07 03:26:39 UTC

Specific transfer occurs between contexts which are similar in the stimulus properties.

Ex) A student is taught the 5 paragraph rule and only uses that rule to write all papers.

General transfer occurs in situations where there is no obvious similarity between the two learning events, but the acquisition of one nonetheless influences the acquisition of the other.

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