Situated+Cognition

= Situated Cognition =

The following link is to an article written by John Seely Brown, Allan Collins, & Paul Duguid, 1989 //Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning://

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ifi/resources/museumeducation/situated.html

The following is a pdf of a presentation that discusses situated cognition and cognitive apprenticeships - it is quite short and very clear.

"Situated cognition is a theory of instruction that suggests learning is naturally tied to authentic activity, context, and culture (Brown, Collins, & Duguid, 1989). It is more difficult to learn from un-natural activities. For example, learning your first language or a foreign language by immersion is widely held to be easier than learning languages from textbooks and vocabulary lists."

I'm really not certain how this differs from Situated Learning ... any ideas?