Wikipedia Trails ... From Study Skills to Lev Vygotsky (Week 8 Extra Credit)

1. Study Skills
     After learning more about the Pomorado Technique, I wanted to wikipedia more study skills. Wikipedia outlines 14 different types. 

     Some people like using the REAP method to study ... 
* Read
* Encode (paraphrase)
* Annotate
* Ponder

(Image Information: Circle of Proximal Development, from Wikipedia)

     The ZPD is representative of the zone of the closest psychological development of learners that includes emotional, cognitive, and volitional psychological processes. It was introduced, but not fully developed, by Lev Vygotsky. 

     Russian born, Vygotsky was a Soviet psychologist best known for his work on psychological developments in children. His concept of ZPD is the distance between what a student (beginner at something) can accomplish on their own vs. what they can accomplish with someone more knowledgeable. 

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