Muse #7

After the previous week's lecture on Fact and Concept Learning, this week we moved onto Procedures and Principles Learning. These two types are considered to be more 'advanced' than Facts and Concepts because Procedures and Principles require more in-depth knowledge and critical thinking.

The fundamental difference between Procedural Knowledge (this week) and Declarative Knowledge (last week) is that for the latter, you simply know that something is thisthisthis whereas in the former, you know exactly how to do it.

When using Photoshop to edit photos, Declarative Knowledge would involve knowing that to edit the colours, the 'adjust colour' function needs to be used, whilst in Procedural Knowledge, the learner will know exactly how to carry out the steps necessary to do the actual adjusting.

With regards to Principle Knowledge, principles are such as Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns (LDMR) in Economics, the Pythagorus Theorem in Mathematics etc.