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Week 7

The Dispositional Mind

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Quick questions after class

Yasmin Kafai presents: "Hard Fun - Digital Games and Learning" on Tuesday, November 7, 2:30 - 4 pm in Longfellow 308.

Section meetings upcoming: Wednesday, November 15 at 11:30 AM / Thursday, November 16 at 2:00 PM

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Review & Preview

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Creating learning

Pandora questions

Avoiding ‘aboutitis’

Theory One

Teaching for Understanding

Whole game learning, big field of action around the knowledge base

Teaching and learning for transfer

Learning from others, distributed cognition

‘Hot’ cognitive economy

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The positive contribution of critical thinking

Academic literacy

Critical literacy

The story of knowledge

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Preview

The Dispositional Mind, the second

session on “the challenge of better

thinkers and learners”

1. Visible thinking

2. The explanation game: An example

3. Making thinking visible with routines

4. Making thinking visible with documentation

5. Making thinking visible with mental pictures

6. Design a routine

7. Rapid review and looking ahead

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Learning Goals

Understand how ‘making visible’ can be a force not only for cognitive but for dispositional development.

Understand something about the craft of designing ‘routines’

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Visible

Thinking

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Mark ChurchPatricia PalmerDavid Perkins Ron RitchhartTerri TurnerShari Tishman

Project ZeroHarvard Graduate School of Education

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Artful Thinking Website

www.pz.harvard.edu/tc

Visible Thinking Website

www.pz.harvard.edu/vt/

Resources

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• Teaching and learning for understanding

• Cultivating alert and able thinkers

• Creating a positive culture of thinking and learning in schools and other institutions

Make thinking

visible

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The Explanation Game

Goal: Understand by example how alertness and commitment can be fostered

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Look for…

What’s done to make thinking visible?

What’s done to encourage engagement in thinking?

What’s done to encourage alertness to opportunity?

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Three ways of making thinking visible

Goal: Learn about some ‘visibility tactics’ relevant to many kinds of learning

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1. Routines

2. Documentation

3. Mental pictures

Three ways of making visible

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Making thinking visible with…

Thinking Routines

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THINK / PUZZLE / EXPLORE A routine for questioning and inquiry

Consider a topic or object:- What do you think you know about the topic or object?

- What questions or puzzles do you have?

- What does the topic or object make you want to explore?

CLAIM / SUPPORT / QUESTIONA Reasoning Routine

- Make a claim about an object or topic.- Identify support for your claim.- Ask a question related to your claim.

Moreroutines…

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Concepts of Art: Traverse City

I used to think…. Now I think…

2 groups (Artful thinking):

• 5th & 6th grade• 9th grade

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5th & 6th grade

I used to think art wasn’t very complex or thoughtful.

Now I think art is very complex and there are a lot of observations you can make and that there are a lot of view points in art and it is really interesting and fun to look at.

I used to think art was just a lot of colors on a canvas.

I now think that art has a story behind it and art has a meaning.

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9th grade

I used to look at just the obvious meaning of the picture or painting. I never thought deeply about it.

I look for the hidden messages, or hidden figures inside of pictures or paintings. I think about what the creator wants to be received by the viewer. I think about how it relates to history or my life.

22CIRCLE OF VIEWPOINTS A perspective taking routine

Consider a controversial topic:- Who (or what!) might have different viewpoints about this? – identify the roles.- Divide up and speak from the viewpoints- Reflect overall

RED LIGHT, YELLOW LIGHTA critical noticing routine

- Look for the ‘red lights’ and ‘yellow lights’ in something – points of serious doubt or uncertainty- Identify what tips you off

Moreroutines…

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Design Characteristics

Work the first time

Very few steps

Widely applicable

Create engagement

Invoke high-level thinking

Can be made visible

Can be used individually or in groups

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Trying Out Routines

Goal: Get a better sense of the quick utility of routines by trying one out

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HEADLINES A summing up routine

Construct newspaper-like headlines for big conclusions

RED LIGHT, YELLOW LIGHTA critical noticing routine

- Look for the ‘red lights’ and ‘yellow lights’ in something – points of serious doubt or uncertainty- Identify what tips you off

26Mounting evidence suggests obesity is contagious, scientists said today. A human pathogen called the adenovirus Ad-37 causes obesity in chickens, according to a new study led by Leah Whigham of the departments of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.Previous research found that two related adenoviruses, Ad-36 and Ad-5, cause obesity in animals. Adenoviruses typically cause respiratory infections.Importantly, Ad-36 has associated with human obesity in previous studies, and Ad-37 might be, too, but more research is needed, Whigham said."It makes people feel more comfortable to think that obesity stems from lack of control," Whigham said. "It's a big mental leap to think you can catch obesity."

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Making thinking visible with…

Documentation

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Think Puzzle Explore

Naomi Arrow – Year 5 – Study of Arthropods

I plan to use this thinking routine a number of times through our Year 5 unit on arthropods to see how it influences the students’ learning.

We shared these routines and briefly discussed the difference between Puzzle and Explore. I wrote some of their responses onto butcher’s paper so that the students could see how their peers approached the questions.

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Making thinking visible with…

MentalPictures

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Concept maps of Thinking

Traverse City, Michigan

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Achievement

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Achievement

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Sparse

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Talent

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Design a Routine for Reading in the Subject Areas

Goal: Get the feel of formulating routines through quick design

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Design a Routine for Reading in the Subject Areas

Work the first time

Very few steps

Widely applicable

Create engagement

Invoke high-level thinking

Can be made visible

Can be used individually or in groups

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Rapid Review and Looking Ahead

Goal: Consolidation and mental preparation

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Learning Goals

Understand how ‘making visible’ can be a force not only for cognitive but for dispositional development.

Understand something about the craft of designing ‘routines’

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Beyond these walls

Look for ‘routines’ in your learning experiences

Notice how you organize your own learning with personal ‘routines’ – and maybe add to them!