8. Functional cognitive tool classification,Functional cognitive tool classification,
roles, and principles of design and useroles, and principles of design and use
Function Tool
Classifications
Roles of Tools Principles of Design and
Use
Tool
1. Information
Seeking Tools
- Support learners as they
attempt to identify and locate
relevant information
- Support learners to retrieve
- Provide multiple
perspectives via varied
information seeking
strategies
- Google
- Yahoo
- Bing
- Support learners to retrieve
new and existing knowledge
strategies
(Cognitive Flexibility Theory)
- Support learner in
monitoring their information
seeking activities
(Metacognitive Theory)
2. Information
Presentation
Tools
- Support learners as they
attempt to present the
information they encounter
- Assist in clarifying the
relationship among the
information
- Provide multi-modal
representations
(Cognitive Flexibility Theory)
- Reduce demands on
working memory
(Cognitive Load Theory)
- Keynote
- Google Docs
- Google
Presentation
9. Function Tool
Classifications
Roles of Tools Principles of Design and
Use
Tool
3. Knowledge
Organization
Tools
- Support learners as they
attempt to establish
conceptual relationships in to-
be-learned information
- Help learners to interpret,
- Avoid oversimplifications of
complex conceptual schemata
(Cognitive Flexibility Theory)
- Help learners to simplify
unnecessarily complex
- XMind
- FreeMind
- Visio
Functional cognitive tool classification,Functional cognitive tool classification,
roles, and principles of design and useroles, and principles of design and use
- Help learners to interpret,
connect, and organize the
represented
Information meaningfully
unnecessarily complex
cognitive tasks
(Cognitive Load Theory)
- Facilitate self-regulated
organization
(Metacognitive Theory)
4. Knowledge
Integration
Tools
- Support learners in
connecting new with existing
knowledge
- Facilitate the processing
of content at deeper levels in
order to construct personally
meaningful knowledge
- Facilitate the sophistication
of conceptual understanding
(Mental model theory)
- Help learners to monitor
knowledge construction
process as well as their
knowledge status
(Metacognition Theory)
- OneNote
- Evernote
10. Function Tool
Classifications
Roles of Tools Principles of Design and
Use
Tool
5. Knowledge
Generation
Tools
- Support the manipulation
and generation of knowledge
- Help learners to represent
their newly generated
- Encourage multiple
perspective and multi-modal
knowledge generation
(Cognitive Flexibility Theory)
- Google Keep
- Wikipedia
Functional cognitive tool classification,Functional cognitive tool classification,
roles, and principles of design and useroles, and principles of design and use
their newly generated
knowledge flexibly and
meaningfully
(Cognitive Flexibility Theory)
- Allow learners to select
varied cognitive strategies
(Metacognition Theory)