eduwotd-archive-1209-0110


 * **Date** || **Word of the Day** || **Definition** || **URL Cited** ||
 * 12/02/09 || Supervenient ||  "inseparable from the other properties of something" || [] ||
 * 12/03/09 || Enactivism ||  "approach emphasizing way that human mind organizes itself by interacting w/ its environment" || [] ||
 * 12/04/09 || Emergence ||  "emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of multiplicity of relatively simple interactions" || http://u.nu/9uv9 ||
 * 12/07/09 || Cognitivism || "positivist approach in understanding mind that describes mental functions as information processing models" || [] ||
 * 12/08/09 || Psychogeography || "study of the specific effects of geographical environment on emotions & behavior of individuals" || http://bit.ly/gaxgM ||
 * 12/09/09 || Scaffolding ||   "provision of sufficient support to promote learning when concepts & skills are first introduced to learners" || [] ||
 * 12/10/09 || Neuroplasticity || "the changing of neurons, the organization of their networks, and their function via new experiences" || [] ||
 * 12/11/09 || Technological Determinism || "reductionist theory w/ presumes technology drives development of society's structure & values" || http://u.nu/4a974 ||
 * 12/14/09 || Hermeneutics || "the study of interpretation theory... either the art or theory & practice of interpretation" || [] ||
 * 12/15/09 || Demarcation problem || <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">"major question in philosophy of science about how and where to draw the lines around science" || http://u.nu/6gz84 ||
 * 12/16/09 || <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">Scientism || <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">"view that science has authority over all other interpretations of life & over other fields of inquiry." || [] ||
 * 12/17/09 || <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">Zeigarnik effect || <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">"(psych theory) stating people remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed tasks" || [] ||
 * 12/18/09 || Cybernetics || "interdisciplinary study of the structure of regulatory systems, both physical and social" || http://u.nu/3s9a4 ||
 * 12/21/09 || <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">Attention || <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">"cognitive process of selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things" || [] ||
 * 12/22/09 || Qualia || "a term used in philosophy to describe the subjective quality of conscious experience" || http://u.nu/62mb4 ||
 * 01/06/10 || Autopoiesis || "literally means 'auto (self)-creation', and expresses a fundamental dialectic between structure and function" || http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis ||
 * 01/07/10 || <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">ACT-R || <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">"cognitive architecture aiming to define irreducible cognitive & perceptual operations that enable the human mind" || [] ||
 * 01/08/10 || <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">TRIZ || <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"> "a methodology, tool set & model-based technology for generating innovative ideas & solutions for problem solving" || [] ||
 * 01/11/10 || <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">Electracy || <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"> "new 'literacy' required to exploit potential of electronic media like hypermedia & social software" || [] ||
 * 01/12/10 || Critical Pedagogy || "teaching approach that helps students question domination, and beliefs & practices that dominate" || http://u.nu/5gki4 ||
 * 01/13/10 || Biofeedback || "technique of raising awareness & enabling control through visualizing bodily functions such as brain waves" || http://u.nu/83yi4 ||
 * 01/14/10 || <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">Transliteracy || <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"> "ability to read, write & interact across range of tools and media from orality to digital social networks" || [] ||
 * 01/15/10 || Heutagogy || "the study of self-determined learning" || http://u.nu/5jij4 ||
 * 01/18/10 || Enframing || "(also Gestell) a term used by Martin Heidegger to describe what lies behind or beneath modern technology" || http://u.nu/58ck4 ||
 * 01/19/10 || <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">Behaviorism || <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"><span class="actions" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 8px;"> <span class="entry-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> "philosophy of psychology based on idea that all things which organisms do should be regarded as behaviors" || [] ||
 * 01/20/10 || Zone of Proximal Development || "the difference between what a learner can do without help and what she can do with help" || [] ||
 * 01/21/10 || Communal Constructivism || "approach in which students construct learning for as well as with others" || http://u.nu/52mr4 ||
 * 01/22/10 || Weltanschauung || "'wide worldview' of a people, family, or person originating from their unique world experience" || http://u.nu/8gzr4 ||
 * 01/25/10 || Integrative Learning || "approach in which integrated lessons help students make connections across curricula" || http://u.nu/56vs4 ||
 * 01/26/10 || <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">Tacit Knowledge || <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;">"individual knowledge not easily codified, difficult to share, often gained through personal experience" || [] ||
 * 01/27/10 || Metacognition || "'cognition about cognition,' it can include knowledge about when to use particular strategies for learning" || http://u.nu/2wpt4 ||
 * 01/28/10 || Social determinism || "hypothesis that social interactions & constructs alone determine individual behavior" || http://u.nu/753u4 ||
 * 01/29/10 || Unschooling || "educational philosophiy centered on allowing children to learn through their natural life experiences" || http://u.nu/76gu4 ||