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Cognition & the Art of Instruction

Cognition & the Art of Instruction. T-540. Preview. T-540 basics in a nutshell A broad viewpoint: The tame and the wild in education Words from our TFs T-540 nuts and bolts and flowers and thorns, with handouts Q&A. T-540 Basics.

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Cognition & the Art of Instruction

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  1. Cognition & the Art of Instruction T-540

  2. Preview • T-540 basics in a nutshell • A broad viewpoint: The tame and the wild in education • Words from our TFs • T-540 nuts and bolts and flowers and thorns, with handouts • Q&A

  3. T-540 Basics • Taught since forever (1984) = 22nd time this year; constantly evolving. • Foregrounds how cognitive science speaks to the design and practice of teaching. • Not just about learning in schools: also, online learning, corporate settings, adult learning, museums, etc. • Involves technology-based examples and welcomes technology-based term projects • Organized to foreground not technology but principles of learning and design. • Main student work is a personal design project with great latitude to focus on areas of personal and professional interest.

  4. More rule-like The taming trap • More routine • More piecemeal The easiest way to create the illusion of learning is to make the task simpler. • More memory oriented Teach to the test

  5. Ten tame topics 1. Quadratic formula ? 2. Underlining topic sentences 3. Essays, “knowledge telling” style 4. The four causes of the industrial revolution 5. How long does it take a 10 kg object to…

  6. Good tame illuminates the wild. The taming trap Bad tame eliminates the wild.

  7. Tame… A train goes 500 miles in 10 hours. How far on the average does the train go in one hour? But check this out… A hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half. How many eggs does one hen lay in one day? Wilding the tame • Or this… • Estimate the water needs of your city or town in the year 2020 and whether current sources could supply them.

  8. Should President Harry Truman have approved the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Tame… What key event led to the United States entering World War II? Wilding the tame

  9. Wilding the tame • Tame… What key event inspired Picasso to paint the famous Guernica?

  10. Wilding the tame • Wilder… What strategies does Picasso use to build up an intense expression of the horrors of war?

  11. Wilder yet… Does this speak to Franco’s revolution? How? How can we tell? How certain do we need to be? Why? Wilding the tame “Elegy to the Spanish Republic #34,” Robert Motherwell

  12. Educators as wilders My favorite teacher, 3rd grade,

  13. Educators as wilders My favorite teacher, 3rd grade,

  14. Educators as wilders We need wilder “wolf teaching” • Deeper • More complex • More engaging But it’s not just a thing of the spirit • Technically informed • Enabled by tools • Artfully done

  15. Taming the wild and wilding the tame through T-540 Words from our Teaching Fellows

  16. Taming the wild and wilding the tame through T-540 Handouts Course description Schedule and readings

  17. Units • The challenge of new knowledge and ideas • The challenge of better thinkers and learners • The challenge of new behaviors

  18. Taming the wild and wilding the tame through T-540 • Typical class meeting • (but there are more complex variations) • Quick administrative stuff • Mini-lecture • Case of the week presentation • Activity & discussion evaluating the case of the week by applying concepts and tools of the week • Wrap up

  19. Taming the wild and wilding the tame through T-540 Q & A http://my.gse.harvard.edu/course/gse-t540/2006/fall

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