Tarea Domiciliaria

Answer the questions

a) What should students do to learn meaningfully?
b) What is an advanced organizer?
c) What is a concept map?


A) Non-arbitrary, non-verbatim, substantive incorporation of new knowledge into cognitive structure. Deliberate effort to link new knowledge with higher order concepts in cognitive structure. Learning not related to experience with events or objects. No affective commitment to relate new knowledge to prior learning.
B) The advance organizer is designed to provide, what cognitive psychologists call, the “mental scaffolding: to learn new information”. Two types of advanced organizers are verbal phrases and graphics
C) A cognitive map is a “kind of visual road map showing some of the pathways we may take to connect meanings of concepts”. They should be hierarchical; the more general, more inclusive concepts should be at the top of the map, and the more specific, less inclusive concepts at the bottom of the map

Read the text and find

A) The opposite of old: new
B) The purpose of mental scaffolding: to learn new information
C) Two types of advanced organizers: verbal phrases and graphics
D) A profession: student-teachers

Match the verbs with their meanings

A)Clarify                                                        1)To elaborate, create
B)Present                                                      2)To make connections
C)Make                                                         3)To contribute
D)Relate                                                        4) To introduce
E)Promote                                                     5)To make easier



A-5
B-4
C-1
D-2
E-3