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Web Pedagogies Week 6: Teaching for Understanding, part 2. A Disciplinary Perspective March 11, 09. Schedule. Last week’s recap What disciplines represented in the projects? Qualities of Understanding (whole group) Group work on readings Break Whole group discussion
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Web PedagogiesWeek 6: Teaching for Understanding, part 2 A Disciplinary Perspective March 11, 09
Schedule • Last week’s recap • What disciplines represented in the projects? • Qualities of Understanding (whole group) • Group work on readings • Break • Whole group discussion • Lab: open lab - CCDT
Schedule (cont) Group Work- three readings • Developing historical imagination in students • What do students in TfU classroom understand? • What do students think about understanding?
What are the Qualities of Understanding? 1. Dimensions of Understanding 2. Levels of Understanding
Four Dimensions of Understanding: • Knowledge • Methods • Purposes • Forms
Knowledge Dimension • Transforming of intuitive beliefs • Coherent and rich conceptual webs
Methods Dimension • Healthy skepticism • Building knowledge in the domain • Validating knowledge in the domain
Purposes Dimension • Awareness of the purposes of Knowledge • Multiple uses of Knowledge • Ownership and autonomy
Forms Dimension • Mastery of performance Genres • Effective use of the Symbol systems • Consideration of the audience and context
Levels of Understanding • Naïve • Novice • Apprentice • Master
In groups: • Developing Historical Imagination in Students • What do students in the TfU Classroom understand? • What do students think about Understanding?
Group 1: Developing Historical Imagination Three challanges • Presentism • Localism • Univocality
Generative Topic • As opposed to inert knowledge • Knowledge one can use “to think with” • Generative entreprise of historian: “ The only certainty is the future because …..”
Generative Topic Students’ Interests Generative Topic Teacher’s Interests “Big Ideas”
Understanding Performances • Beyond the information given (Bruner) • To understand is to invent (Piaget) • Zone of Proximal Development
Hawkin’s Triangle I It Thou
Gr. 2: What do Students Think about Understanding? • What changes needed to be made in the classroom? • Interview questions • How do students perceive “generativity” in building understanding? • How do students perceive the role of Explicit Understanding Goals?
How do students perceive understanding Performaces? • How do students perceive Ongoing assessment? • What is their overall conception of “under-standing”? DATA: Correlation between Student’s conceptions and their understanding. Discussion and Possible Implications