Connected Learning as a Factor of Cognitive Excellence for the Deserving Student

Starting with the idea of learning as a change in the student’s cognitive and action behavior, the article foreshadows a reconstructed vision of school learning, combining elements from several types of learning – social learning, vicarious learning, constructivist learning, and meritological learning – in order to give coherence to another type of learning, that of connected learning, i.e. learning that is related to reality, being a coupling between learning and context, environment, situation, community, and real facts. This type of learning is generated by the care, always argued, not to slip from reality in the learning process, to distinguish, as much as possible, the real object of learning, to remain as close as possible to real phenomena. Therefore, we believe that, at present, in addition to transdisciplinarity, one of the most important elements that we must take into account in connected learning is reality, life itself.