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Metadidaxis

After four years of college, students should develop critical thinking, analytical, and communication skills. Make learning goals transparent, provide research opportunities, use analogies, make learning relevant, and encourage ownership of learning. Infect students with enthusiasm about the natural world.

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Metadidaxis

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  1. Metadidaxis Robin Wrightwrightr@umn.edu

  2. After four years of college, what should you be able to do?

  3. Engage us • Challenge us • Help us develop critical thinking, analytical, and communication skills • Make your learning goals transparent to us • Provide opportunities for research • Use analogies, not jargon • Make learning relevant • Give us ownership of our learning • Infect us with your enthusiasm about the natural world Frederico Unglaub, Student, University of Colorado C. Brewer, U MT, 2/2010

  4. What is learning? formation of new synapses between neurons in your brain learning is brain change http://www.yalemedicalgroup.org/images/dxrad/mri-brain.jpg http://www.med.upenn.edu/ins/faculty/balicego.htm

  5. What is teaching? the art of “changing the brain” • creating conditions that promote formation of new synapses in our students’ brains Zull (The Art of Changing the Brain, 2002) http://www.yalemedicalgroup.org/images/dxrad/mri-brain.jpg

  6. How do people learn? • Prior knowledge: To learn something new, I have to use what I already know. • Knowledge organization: How I organize my knowledge can help or hinder my understanding. • Community: I can learn more in socially supported interactions. • Motivation: My motivation to learn affects what and how much I learn. • Difference: How I learn is not exactly the same as another person. • Metacognition: I learn more when I consciously monitor my learning. • See Chapter 6: Learning and Understanding: Seven Principles; NRC Council 2003, Learning & Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools; see also “How People Learn” NRC Council 1999)

  7. Retrieval

  8. Learning vs Teaching Learning Teaching • Process that occurs in individual’s brain as result of experiences • Can be detected indirectly by products or performance • Produces lasting change in knowledge, behaviors, or attitudes

  9. Groups Stand in alphabetical order based on the name of your school 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 12

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