How to Teach for Understanding: Thematic Reflections 3 December 2009
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T-527 Fall 2009 How to Teach for Understanding: Thematic Reflections 3 December 2009
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T-527 Fall 2009
How to Teach for Understanding:Thematic Reflections
3 December 2009
T-527 Fall 2009
Course GoalsUnderstand how to…
• Design curriculum that deepens meaningful learning
• Integrate new technologies to enhance teaching and learning for understanding
• Use technologies to promote collaborative,
reflective curriculum development
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Achieving these goals is important…
“In most school districts, technology is not evaluated from an enterprise perspective in terms of improving and innovating learning… CoSN believes we must equip district technology leaders to create compelling learning environments and empower them with the range of skills and abilities needed to position them as educational leaders—not just technology leaders—that provide the vision for the role technology can play in innovation.”
Consortium for School Networking (CoSN). 1 December 2009. Framework of Essential Skills of the K-12 Chief Technology Officer.
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Focus
EducationalPrinciples
EducationalTechnologies
How can we deepen learning?
ReflectiveCommunity
Designs for Learning
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Using theory
To design and analyze practice
Teaching for UnderstandingDilemmas, Principles, Design
Curriculum: Product or ProcessTeaching to Standards or for Understanding
Meaningful AssessmentDiverse Learners and Settings
Collaborative CommunityTechnology Integration
Rethinking Education in the Age of TechnologyCollins and Halvorson
Industrial-Age SchoolTeacher transmitsCurriculum is set
Tests assessTechnology=textbook,chalkboard, copier
uniformity, teacher control
Information-Age LearningTeachers guide
Curriculum is inquiryAssessment is embedded
Technology=computers, Internetgames, cell phones
interaction, user-control
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What are potential perils of new
educational technologies?
Increase inequities in access to high quality public education
Isolate people and decrease interaction with “unlikeminded” others
Impair learners’ contact with teachers who challenge misconceptions, model
disciplined inquiry, and inspire creativity
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Challenges to teaching for understanding with technology
Cost and access to technologyBeliefs about the goals and nature of teaching and learningDisruption of classroom management, authority, and
controlIncompatibility with existing curriculum and assessment
materials/policiesFaith in a technical fix rather than change in a learning
community
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What are potential benefits of teaching for
understanding with new technologies?
Make curriculum authentic and generative
Make ambitious goals clear and accessible
Support rich and varied performances
Enable ongoing assessment, feedback, and revision
Promote reflective, collaborative communities of learners in and out of schools
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Keep up the good work and stay in touch
Connecting educational researchwith practice
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Wrapping Up T527
Final Paper/Design Projects due Dec. 10, 5PMPay attention to rules of plagiarism and citation of sourcesPost your paper onlinePlease print out a paper copy of your design and deliver to Longfellow 321, Stone Wiske’s mailbox
Complete online course evaluation
