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Design for knowledge

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

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  1. Design for knowledge Daniel Lopez EDTC 6341

  2. Key Points • Teaching Disciplinary Structures • Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind • Discourse Forms • Modes of thinking

  3. INFORMATION IS NOT KNOWLEDGE! Clifford Stoll Silicon Snake Oil, 1995

  4. Ways of Knowing • Toy Universes • Computer simulations • Replacing Text • E-Technologies Create new learning opportunities for Research • Learning Environments – Complex Systems

  5. 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.

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Quiz Questions • What is replacing Text as a means for organizing the essential elements of knowledge? • Information • Toy Universes • Television

  9. Quiz Questions • What is replacing Text as a means for organizing the essential elements of knowledge? • Information • Toy Universes • Television

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. Resources • Pictures • http://informatters.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/mug-copy4.jpg

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