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Sara Wilkie

What's Your Best Guess? Predicting Answers Leads to Deeper Learning | MindShift - 1 views

  • Making predictions, Kasmer and Kim explain, helps prime the learning process in several ways. In the act of venturing a guess, we discover what we know and don’t yet know about the subject. We activate our prior knowledge on the topic, readying ourselves to make connections to new knowledge. We create a hypothesis that can then be tested, generating curiosity and motivation to find out the answer. Most of all, making predictions leads us to think deeply, to “explore the ‘why’ that underlies challenging problems,”
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    "Students who view mathematics as only memorizing facts and procedures are often unsure of when or how to apply what they have learned. "
Sara Wilkie

Implementing the First 5 Days / Interview with Ian VanderSchee - 0 views

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    "BLCFeatureTopicIn this episode of the November Learning Podcast Series, Alan November speaks to Ian VanderSchee, an upper level mathematics teacher at Coppell High School, in Texas. The two discuss Ian's implementation of Alan's "First 5 Days" ideas at the start of this school year and how these ideas have positively impacted his students ever since. To learn more about these and other possible "First 5 Days" implementations, we encourage you to read Alan's book, Who Owns the Learning, and we invite you to attend the Building Learning Communities conference being held this summer in Boston. You can learn about both of these on our Web site at http://www.novemberlearning.com. You might also share your thoughts and stories about the "First 5 Days" on Twitter, using the hashtag #1st5days."
anonymous

Is It Really Hip to Flip? -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • Rather, educators should ask "how to apply the elements of effective instruction to teach students both deep conceptual understanding and procedural fluency.
  • "Any sufficiently important mathematics topic requires students to learn the topic in four dimensions: procedurally, conceptually, contextually, and investigatively"
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