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Developing Curriculum for Deep Learning T-527 Fall 2005 Thursdays 1-4 PM Instructor: Stone Wiske Teaching Fellows: Lisa Breit and Marielle Palombo. Topic, Goals, Activities, Technologies, Assessment, Logistics. Connecting educational research with practice.
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Developing Curriculum forDeep LearningT-527 Fall 2005Thursdays 1-4 PMInstructor: Stone WiskeTeaching Fellows: Lisa Breit and Marielle Palombo Topic, Goals, Activities, Technologies, Assessment, Logistics
Connecting educational research with practice Challenge = bridge knowledge-action gap
Using theory To design practice
Topic How can we deepen learning? Educational Principles Educational Technologies Designs for Learning Reflective Community
Course Goals • Design curriculum that deepens meaningful learning • Integrate new technologies to enhance teaching and learning for understanding • Use technologies to promote collaborative, reflective curriculum development
Deepening Meaningful Learning Teaching for Understanding Frame generative curriculum topics Define explicit understanding goals Support performances that develop and demonstrate understanding Conduct ongoing assessment with feedback from multiple sources using public criteria Develop collaborative, reflective communities of learners
How can new technologiesdeepen meaningful learning? Make curriculum authentic and generative Make goals clear and accessible Support rich, collaborative performances Enable ongoing assessment and revision Foster sustained, interactive, collegial curriculum development
Process How can we deepen our own learning? Educational Principles Educational Technologies Designs for Learning Reflective Community
Learning ActivitiesCurriculum as Collaborative Reflective Design Read and think Share thinking/expertise with classmates Collaborate with a teacher Apply readings and teacher insights to curriculum design or another project Write an analytic paper connecting the course to your goals
Learning Technologies T527 Course Web site: http://icommons.harvard.edu/~gse-t527/ Education with New Technologies Web site: http://learnweb.harvard.edu/ent/ Collaborative Curriculum Design Tool http://learnweb.harvard.edu/ccdt/
Using technologyfor collaboration, reflection, and understanding
T527 Multimedia Teaching Case One teacher’s curriculum design journey Demonstrates design process Addresses real-world implementation of a design
Collaborative • Curriculum • Design • Tool • An online • interactive • workspace that • Scaffolds design • Organizes materials • Supports collaboration
Use the CCDT for collaboration Use the CCDT message board to communicate with your coach, collaborators, classmates
Number Sense with Kidspiration
Understanding Ionesco’s La Leçon Using a hotlist made with Filamentality
Planning your project • Connect the course to your goals: content, learners, context • Learn through applying your knowledge • Critique theory from experience • Consider collaborating—with a teacher, a classmate, your colleagues
Ongoing Assessment Process • Frequent • Clear criteria related to goals • Generating suggestions for improvement • Shared responsibility
Logistics • Review the syllabus on the course Web site • Post/send a note about yourself by Sept. 19 • Begin to explore project possibilities • Purchase the books you want or find readings on Reserve at Gutman Library