Cognitive Load Theory: Failure?
Doug Holton,
EdTechDev,
Nov 17, 2009
Good shorter description of cognitive load theory (which is used to argue against discovery learning and constructivist methodologies) and a succinct account of why it (probably) fails. "Cognitive load theorists vehemently argue for the basis for their model in cognitive research, and yet ignore quite a huge swath of it. It accepts the information processing view of cognition (most popular in the 1980s) and Baddeley's model of working memory from the 1970s." So there.
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