Monday, October 17, 2011

inert knowledge

"Inert knowledge is knowledge that can usually be recalled when people are explicitly asked to do so but is not used spontaneously in problem solving even though it is relevant." --"Anchored Instruction and Its Relationship to Situated Cognition, by The Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt


...aka, most of what we learn in schools.

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