I'm in the process of trying to separate this theory from so many of the others we have already seen. Sometimes it seems like a person wants to get their name out there so they tweak an already viable theory ever so slightly and then claim to have come up with a new theory. This idea of couching things in a story is so similar to teaching using stories and knowing that students learn based on the "story" of their life and showing an abstract thought/principle using a concrete example, such as a story that I wonder if we really need to distinguish between all the similar theories and call them different things. In fact, I almost posted my lesson from a week ago just to see if my idea was accurate, and if the professor was watching, but I didn't. Having said that, I do love stories and will always use them in some way to teach a lesson, I just wonder if I need to have 13 different names for the word story to make it more effective or can I just call it a story?
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True, situated cognition and case-based learning are similar, but they do have differences. The idea in situated cognition is that all learning must happen within the context of an authentic activity that is representative of real life activities. So to learn science, students should be a cognitive apprentice of a real scientist. They should do what real scientists do. Case-based is more about using a story to set up a situation where the students meet expectation failure, and then they are motivated to figure out why their expectations failed.
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