collaborate in an online research initiative with another site or institution
create a multimedia presentation on a particular aspect of their research
Process:
Introduction:
description of the steps learners should go through
with links embedded in each step.
Resources:
list of the resources
resources embedded within the Process section,
non-Web resources can also be used
Evaluation
rubric
1 for evaluating students' work
clear goals, matching assessments to specific tasks
During the introductory stage of the WebQuest, it can be very helpful to point out three types of student examples: exemplary, acceptable, and unacceptable.
But by looking at existing models -- cool stuff that has been accomplished by others before you -- you'll have an idea of what's possible. And of what you might be missing.
5. Willingness to Take Risks
prepared for failure.
6. Trust
The trust of administrators, colleagues and parents certainly matters. You can lose your job or professional standing without it. But without trust from students, you're just a well-dressed, silly person with your name on the placard by the door.
opportunity for concrete, contextually meaningful experience through which they
can search for patterns, raise their own questions, and construct their own
models.
engage in activity, discourse, and reflection
take on more ownership of the ideas, and to pursue autonomy, mutual reciprocity
of social relations, and empowerment to be the goals.
"knowledge proceeds neither solely from the experience of objects nor from an
innate programming
but from successive constructions."
and the effect of social interaction, language, and culture on learning.
This movement occurs in the so-called "zone of proximal development" as a result
of social interaction.
disappointed with the overwhelming control of environment over human behavior
that is represented in behaviorism.
recognized two
internalization
basic processes operating continuously at every level of human activity
internalization and externalization
complex mental function is first an interaction between people
becomes a process within individuals
This transformation involves the mastery of external means of thinking and
learning to use symbols to control and regulate one's thinking.
the claim is that mental processes can be understood only if we understand the
tools and signs that mediate them
the gesture of pointing could not have been established as a sign without the
reaction of the other person.
Bruner's key concepts
mode of representing past events through appropriate motor responses
which enables
perceiver to "summarize events by organization of percepts and of images
symbol system which represents things by design features that can be arbitrary
and remote, e.g. language
Bruner's influence on instruction
Translating material into children's modes of thought:
enable learners to develop cognitive growth: questioning, prompting
discovery as" all forms of obtaining knowledge for oneself by the use of one's
own mind
Interpersonal interaction
Discovery learning:
Spiral Curriculum:
promote concept discovery, the teacher presents the set of instances that will
best help learners to develop an appropriate model of the concept.
cognitive
constructivists
sociocultural constructivists
focusing on the individual cognitive construction of mental structures;
emphasizing the social interaction and cultural practice on the construction of
knowledge
Promote discovery in the exercise of problem solving
Variables in instruction: nature of knowledge, nature of the knower, and
nature of the knowledge-getting process
Feedback must be provided in a mode that is both meaningful and within the
information-processing capacity of the learner.
Intrinsic pleasure of discovery promote a sense of self-reward
Knowledge cannot exist independently from the knower;
Learning is viewed as self-regulatory process
Cognitive constructivists focus on the active mental construction struggling
with the conflict between existing personal models of the world, and incoming
information in the environment.
Sociocultural constructivists emphasis
in which learners construct their models of reality as a meaning-making
undertaking with culturally developed tools and symbols
and negotiate such meaning thorough cooperative social activity, discourse and
debate (
Learners are active in making sense of things instead of responding to stimuli.
learners " make tentative interpretations of experience
requires invention and self-organization
Errors need to be perceived as a result of learners' conceptions and therefore
not minimized or avoided.
the learners are responsible for defending, proving, justifying, and
communicating their ideas to the classroom community.
humans seek to organize and generalize across experiences
According to TIP's
Theory Into Practice
Spiral organization:
Going beyond the information given:
Readiness:
learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts
based upon their current/past knowledge.
learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts
based upon their current/past knowledge.
learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts
based upon their current/past knowledge.
that learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or
concepts based upon their current/past knowledge.
Instruction must be structured so that it can be easily grasped by the student
learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts
based upon their current/past knowledge.
learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts
based upon their current/past knowledge.
Bruner's major theoretical framework is that learning is an active process in
which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past
knowledge.
Level 2. Restate or almost restate the question as a response.
Level 3. Admit ignorance or present information.
Level 4. Voice encouragement to seek response through authority.
Level 5. Encourage brainstorming, or consideration of alternative explanations.
Level 6. Encourage consideration of alternative explanations and a means of evaluating them.
Level 7. Encourage consideration of alternative explanations plus a means of evaluating them, and follow-through on evaluations.
When brainstorming, it is important to remember all ideas are put out on the table. Which ones are “keepers” and which ones are tossed in the trashcan is decided later.
Encourage Questioning.
Divergent questions asked by students should not be discounted. When students realize that they can ask about what they want to know without negative reactions from teachers, their creative behavior tends to generalize to other areas. If time will not allow discussion at that time, the teacher can incorporate the use of a “Parking Lot” board where ideas are “parked” on post-it notes until a later time that day or the following day.
I like this idea of the "parking lot" board. Students do need to feel like asking questions is ok- this doesn't stifle them but lets class continue on track.
Students should be explicitly taught at a young age how to infer or make inferences.
a teacher may use bumper stickers or well-known slogans and have the class brainstorm the inferences that can be drawn from them.