Just a quick note about the context surrounding cognitive apprenticeship.
Allan Collins writes in response to my questions about the asymmetric
nature of cognitive apprenticeship and why he considers it 'cognitive'.
The candy sellers reference is to Saxe's book.
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>I will try to answer but they are moving us to 733 Concord Ave on Friday
>and I am short of time. Yes the guidelines are for mentors and it maybe
>should be for both. It is cognitive in a way that candy sellers are not in
>that there is an emphasis on making thinking visible. The 3 case studies in
>the original paper were Palincsar and Brown, Scardamalia and Bereiter and
>Schoenfeld.
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>>>In some sense it came out of Brown and my attempts to build tutoring
>>>systems, which led us to think about how education should be reconceived
>>>given you have a lot of resources to throw at it. Then too it came out of
>>>others (eg the three case studies plus Lave) attempts to reconceive
>>>education.
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Bill Barowy, Associate Professor
Technology in Education
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