{"id":150,"date":"2006-12-12T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conclave.open.ac.uk\/r.m.ferguson\/?p=150"},"modified":"2006-12-12T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T10:44:00","slug":"firstclass-as-a-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"FirstClass as a tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Guy Claxton on &#8216;Learning to Learn&#8217;. He&#8217;s taking a cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) approach. He says that the student is:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;learning in the context of, and with the aid of, a host of culturally constituted tools &#8211; books, symbols, computer graphics &#8211; which afford or invite certain approaches to the learning task and preclude others. The settings in which people find themselves &#8211; especiall those which they inhabit recurrently &#8211; thus channel the growth of their minds.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Something to consider in the light of FirstClass, and of SecondLife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Guy Claxton on &#8216;Learning to Learn&#8217;. He&#8217;s taking a cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) approach. He says that the student is: &#8216;learning in the context of, and with the aid of, a host of culturally constituted tools &#8211; books, symbols, computer graphics &#8211; which afford or invite certain approaches to the learning task and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociocultural","category-things-to-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}