Welcome to EDUC 550

Teaching with Primary Sources

Contact Info

▪ Instructors: Dr. Jerry Hostetler & Dr. Courtney Kisat

▪ Graduate Assistant: Caitlin Schupp

▪ Location: Wham 112/Wham 303

▪ Time: 1:00 – 4:00pm, Tues. & Thurs.

▪ Contact info: jhostetl@gmail.com; clkisat@siu.edu ; crschupp@siu.edu

▪ Offices: Dr. Hostetler - 106 Pulliam; 453-7378

▪ Dr. Kisat – 127B Pulliam; 453-6063

Course Description

▪ The purpose of EDUC 550 is to help pre-service teachers increase their use of technology in the classroom via access to digitized primary source materials from the collections of the Library of Congress for use in producing classroom curriculum.

Pedadgogy

https://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_emdin_teach_teachers_how_to_create_magic

The Art of Te

aching

Major thinkers on pedagogy:

▪ Loughran – “Pedagogy is understood as being embedded in the relationship between teaching and learning.” (2010)

▪ Freire – “One cannot expect positive results from an educational … program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people.” (1972)

▪ Bloom – “Education must be increasingly concerned about the fullest development of all children and youth, and it will be the responsibility of the schools to seek learning conditions which will enable each individual to reach the highest level of learning possible.” (1985) Charlie Brow

nFerris Bueller

Did these teachers have

good pedagogical methods?

Pedagogical Framework

▪ How do people learn?–Based on previous conceptions–Understanding requires facts and conceptual framework– Learning is produced by meta-cognition

So, activating prior knowledge and clearing up any misconceptions is key to successful teaching.

Bloom’s taxonomy

explaining Bloom's Taxonomy

Different types of learners

▪ Howard Gardner theorized that intelligence is not inherited as a have /have-not ability.

Rather, there are seven intelligences:1. Linguistic

2. Logical-Mathematic3. Musical

4. Bodily/Kinesthetic5. Spatial

6. Interpersonal7. Intrapersonal

What happens when we learn?

http://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_jayne_blakemore_the_mysterious_workings_of_the_adolescent_brain?quote=1879

How does this change as we age?

Teachers must encourage critical thinking & metacognition

▪ Meta-cognition = Thinking about thinking

▪ Higher level cognitive processes in secondary education better prepare students for real-world choices.

▪ For example, real-world role play, case studies, group discussions, etc.

After a televised debate on capital punishment, viewers were encouraged to log on to the station's web site and vote online to indicate if they were "for" or "opposed to“ capital punishment.

Within the first hour, almost 1000 people "voted" at the website, with close to half voting for each position. The news anchor for this stationannounced the results the next day. He concluded that the people in this state were evenly divided on the issue of capital punishment.

Given these data, do you agree with the announcer's conclusion?

Provide two suggestions for improving this study.

Sample student constructed response:

It would be better if the researchers picked out people at random that had voted and made sure people can only vote one time.

People could vote a whole bunch of times and no one would know it so that is notaccurate.

When we use technology

▪ We integrate multiple modes of communication and expression

▪ This is known as MULTIMODALITY

– “The use of multimodal literacies has expanded the ways we acquire information and understand concepts.”

Critical Pedagogy

▪ A person is literate when they become politicized. They are able to manipulate language to assert a self-identity.

▪ Based on the work of Paulo Freire.

“Pedagogy of the Oppressed,” 1968

Banking in Education theory

▪ Traditional pedagogical methods depended on this model:

▪ Students are depositories and teachers are depositors

▪ But this model assumes students are to be passive receptacles of the unquestionable authority of their teachers!

▪We can address this problem by encouraging critical thinking at every

possible chance.

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TPACK = Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge

(From Harris & Hofer)

Jeopardy Power Point

For example …

Activity: Complete a Review

Students engage in some sort of question and answer to review content; paper-based to game-show format using multimedia presentation tools

Student-response systems (SRS), interactive whiteboard review games (e.g., Jeopardy), survey tools

What makes a great teacher?

▪ Great teachers are genuinely interested in their students and respect them as individuals

▪ They are friendly and empathetic, but also firm and provide structure and discipline in the classroom

▪ They make learning fun and interesting

▪ They possess deep content knowledge; they know the subject matter and can teach it

This is from the article “Out of the Mouths of Babes: What do Secondary Teachers Believe about Great Teachers?” by Patricia Williams, et. al., based on a study in which pre-service teachers wrote letters to secondary students to gather responses on traits of an outstanding educator.

https://www.ted.com/talks/rita_pierson_every_kid_needs_a_champion