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Design for knowledge. Daniel Lopez EDTC 6341. Key Points. Teaching Disciplinary Structures Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind Discourse Forms Modes of thinking. INFORMATION IS NOT KNOWLEDGE!. Clifford Stoll Silicon Snake Oil, 1995. Ways of Knowing. Toy Universes
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Design for knowledge Daniel Lopez EDTC 6341
Key Points • Teaching Disciplinary Structures • Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind • Discourse Forms • Modes of thinking
INFORMATION IS NOT KNOWLEDGE! Clifford Stoll Silicon Snake Oil, 1995
Ways of Knowing • Toy Universes • Computer simulations • Replacing Text • E-Technologies Create new learning opportunities for Research • Learning Environments – Complex Systems
Learning the Disciplines • Disciplines – Theories and generalizations • Education - Challenged by Media, researchers and policy makers • Why? • Knowledge is identified as a discrete body of essential knowledge and skills • Competency based Curricula + Direct Instruction + Standardized test = measurement – driven teaching and higher test scores.
Knowledge of Structure and Process • Learning About Structures • Based on central theories and operations • Grasp key principles or concepts • Allows to understand in a meaningful way • Role of structure over content • More Understandable • Easily remembered • Facilitates transfer of learning
Disciplines • Learning About Processes – Doing the Disciplines • Greatest relevancy to students’ lives • Teaching disciplines as “ways to think” about experience not teaching “about” disciplines. • Not to study about the discipline, “Do” the discipline
Quiz Questions • What is replacing Text as a means for organizing the essential elements of knowledge? • Information • Toy Universes • Television
Quiz Questions • What is replacing Text as a means for organizing the essential elements of knowledge? • Information • Toy Universes • Television
Quiz • When teachers design opportunities for students to develop knowledge, they must not base the study of the disciplines on more than content descriptions of knowledge • True • False
Quiz • When teachers design opportunities for students to develop knowledge, they must not base the study of the disciplines on more than content descriptions of knowledge • True • False
Quiz • What is more important in education? • Teaching knowledge related to specific skills concerned primarily with one’s profession • Teaching knowledge that leads to general understanding necessary for dealing with the affairs of life • Both • None of the above
Quiz • What is more important in education? • Teaching knowledge related to specific skills concerned primarily with one’s profession • Teaching knowledge that leads to general understanding necessary for dealing with the affairs of life • Both • None of the above
Resources • Pictures • http://informatters.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/mug-copy4.jpg