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Authentic Education - What Is an Essential Question? - 0 views

  • The big-idea questions signal that education is not just about learning “the answer” but about learning how to learn.  
    • lkryder
       
      In art history this helps with relevance to the students
  • A second connotation for “essential” refers to key inquiries within a discipline. Essential questions in this sense are those that point to the big ideas of a subject and to the frontiers of technical knowledge. They are historically important and very much “alive” in the field.
  • By actively exploring such questions, the learner is helped to arrive at important understandings as well as greater coherence in their content knowledge and skill.
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    Essential questions as the key component in design of instruction, in particular UbD model (Understanding by Design)
lkryder

Usable Knowledge: What is Teaching for Understanding? - 0 views

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    The TfU model nicely compliments CATs and UbD - I personally use a hybrid version of all three and I see many similar ideas in our readings for this class from JISC
lkryder

Six Facets of Understanding - 0 views

  • Plan instructional strategies and learning experiences that bring students to these competency levels.
    • lkryder
       
      This is key for me - bring students to the competency levels - this is like the "bridging" Mike mentioned
  • Required uncoverage of abstract or often misunderstood ideas
    • lkryder
       
      uncoverage of abstract or often misunderstood ideas is really learner centered and fits nicely with the CoI model in that the social perspectives present will foster a richer interpretation of topics under scrutiny
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    A remnant of a faculty development workshop - many links don't work but this page is a nice summary of the ideas
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