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Web Pedagogies Week 6: Teaching for Understanding, part 2

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 Pedagogies Week 6: Teaching for Understanding, part 2

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  1. Web PedagogiesWeek 6: Teaching for Understanding, part 2 A Disciplinary Perspective March 11, 09

  2. 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

  3. Schedule (cont) Group Work- three readings • Developing historical imagination in students • What do students in TfU classroom understand? • What do students think about understanding?

  4. Range of disciplines

  5. What are the Qualities of Understanding? 1. Dimensions of Understanding 2. Levels of Understanding

  6. Four Dimensions of Understanding: • Knowledge • Methods • Purposes • Forms

  7. Knowledge Dimension • Transforming of intuitive beliefs • Coherent and rich conceptual webs

  8. Methods Dimension • Healthy skepticism • Building knowledge in the domain • Validating knowledge in the domain

  9. Purposes Dimension • Awareness of the purposes of Knowledge • Multiple uses of Knowledge • Ownership and autonomy

  10. Forms Dimension • Mastery of performance Genres • Effective use of the Symbol systems • Consideration of the audience and context

  11. Levels of Understanding • Naïve • Novice • Apprentice • Master

  12. In groups: • Developing Historical Imagination in Students • What do students in the TfU Classroom understand? • What do students think about Understanding?

  13. BREAK

  14. Whole group discussion

  15. Group 1: Developing Historical Imagination Three challanges • Presentism • Localism • Univocality

  16. 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 …..”

  17. Generative Topic Students’ Interests Generative Topic Teacher’s Interests “Big Ideas”

  18. Understanding Performances • Beyond the information given (Bruner) • To understand is to invent (Piaget) • Zone of Proximal Development

  19. Hawkin’s Triangle I It Thou

  20. 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?

  21. 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

  22. Group 3: What do Students in the TfU classroom Understand?

  23. Lab: Groups work on their TFU projects on CCDT

  24. Distance students participate via chat

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