An Embedded and Embodied Cognition Review of Instructional Manipulatives

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Cognitive Offloading. (2016, background): “The second general area in which research on cognitive offloading has important practical implications is education [11,24,73,74].”
Eight Ways to Promote Generative Learning (2016, background): “…benefits of enacting are often explained in terms of embodied theories of cognition and instruction (Barsalou 2008; Glenberg 2008; Paas and Sweller 2012; Pouw et al. 2014; Wilson 2002), which posit that cognitive processes are deeply grounded in one’s physical interactions with the external world.”
Putting Education in “Educational” Apps (2015, background): “…blocks that are designed to help children learn mathematical concepts through hands-on manipu-lation—is commonplace and has some empirical support (see Lillard, 2005; Pouw, van Gog, & Paas, 2014; and see Sowell, 1989, for a review; but see McNeil & Jarvin, 2007; Uttal, Scudder, & DeLoache, 1997).”
Preschool Children’s Foreign Language Vocabulary Learning by Embodying Words Through Physical Activity and Gesturing (2015, background): “Recent research findings support the embodied character of learning, suggesting that learning is a cognitive process which is inextricably linked to the body’s interactions with the world (Wilson 2002; see also Pouw et al. 2014; Pouw et al. 2014).”