Discussion of Transfer and Learning

The passage that we strongly agree with is “Novices and Experts” and it states that, “We turn now to the question of how experts’ knowledge is organized and how this affects their abilities to understand and represent problems. Their knowledge is not simply a list of facts and formulas that are relevant to their domain; instead, their knowledge is organized around core concepts or“big ideas” that guide their thinking about their domains”. We said we agree with this because this is how the experts stay experts, they organize their knowledge into categories and use their knowledge for different fields of study.

The passage that we don’t agree with is in Bergmann and Zepernick and that states that, “The results of our study suggest that students approach learning to write with a number of preconceptions that strongly influence how much they are able to learn and also with strong, if intuitive, rhetorical skills…