the design of learning environments
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The Design of Learning Environments. Presented by Patty Copeland. Changes in Educational Goals. Math Through the Decades. Teaching Math in 1950 : A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?. Math Through the Decades. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Design of Learning Environments
Presented by Patty Copeland
Changes in Educational Goals
Math Through the Decades
Teaching Math in 1950: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price.
What is his profit?
Math Through the Decades
Teaching Math in 1960: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80.
What is his profit?
Math Through the Decades
Teaching Math in 1970: A logger exchanges a set, "L", of lumber for a set, "M", of money. The cardinality of set "M" is 100. Each element is worth one dollar. Make 100 dots representing the elements of the set "M." The set "C", the cost of production contains 20 fewer points than set "M."Represent the set "C" as a subset of set "M" and answer the following question:
What is the cardinality of the set "P" of profits?
Math Through the Decades
Teaching Math in 1980: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment:
Underline the number 20.
Math Through the Decades
Teaching Math in 1990: By cutting down beautiful forest trees, the Logger makes $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the forest birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down the trees?
There are no wrong answers.
Math Through the Decades
Teaching Math in 2000: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $120.
How does an Enron Accountant determine that his profit margin is $275?
Math Through the Decades
Teaching Math in 2010: El hachero vende un camion carga por $100.
La cuesta de production es . . . .
Changes in Educational Goals
1800s Instruction in writing focused on the
mechanics---oral messages to written messages.
Writing instruction aimed at giving children the capacity to closely imitate very simple text forms.
Changes in Educational Goals
1930s Primary students were expected to
express themselves in writing. Analysis and interpretation of what is
read became an expectation of all school children.
Literacy: Then and Now
Colonist were literate enough if they could sign their name, or even an “X”…
Immigrants arrived in large numbers and schools gave them “recitation literacy”
Literacy: Then and Now WWI—Army redefined
reading....“extraction literacy”…who, what, when, where, or how.
Now—full or “higher literacy”…inferences, questions, or ideas
Literacy: Then and Now
“The idea of a classroom where young women, poor and minority students, and learning disabled students all read (not recite) and write about (not copy) Shakespeare or Steinbeck is a radical and hopeful departure from the long-running conception of literacy as serviceable skills for the many and generative, reflective reading and writing for the few” (Wolf, 1988).
Eighth Grade Test - 1895
Name and define the fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
A wagon box is 2 feet deep, 10 feet long, and 3 feet wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cents/bushel, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
Eighth Grade Test - 1895
What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 feet long at $20 per meter?
Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance which is 640 rods?
Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.
Eighth Grade Test - 1895
District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
Find cost of 6720 lbs. of coal at $6.00 per ton.
Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
Mass Mass Production in Production in FactoriesFactories
“Scientific” organization of factories
Raw materials Technical workers Assembly line process to
end product Efficiency experts/superiors Measurement of product
cost and progress Management
Structure efficient classrooms
Children Teachers Assembly line process
to graduation Administrators &
researchers. Standardized Test Central District
Authorities
Providing Providing Mass Mass EducationEducationVsVs
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Society today…
Envisions graduates of school systems who: Identify and solve problems Make contributions to society through
their lifetime Display the qualities of “adaptive
expertise”
Why Are We Doing This?
QualityStudent
Performance
Curriculum: What(TEKS/TAKS, district, campus, teacher)
Instruction: How(lesson attributes, designs, strategies)
Assessment: To what extent(TEKS/TAKS, district, teacher)
Curriculum/Instruction/Assessment
Thinking at High Cognitive Levels and Making Connections
Assessing Student Progress
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AssessmentCentered
KnowledgeCentered
CommunityCommunity
Perspectives on Learning Environments
Learner-Centered Environments
Knowledge, skills, attitudes, and beliefs that learners bring
Culturally responsive, appropriate, compatible, and relevant
Diagnostic teaching
Learner-Centered Environments Students use their current
knowledge to construct new knowledge.
What they know and believe at the moment affects how they interpret new information.
Sometimes learners’ current knowledge supports new learning, sometimes it hampers learning.
Learner-Centered Environments
Previous Academic
Knowledge Tasks& Experiences
Building Background Listen to the passage Write a description or
draw a picture of the main character
Compare your vision of the character to the visions of others
Martin…
Building Background
What is meant by activating prior knowledge?
What is meant by building background?
Do they differ instructionally?
Building Background Activate Prior
Knowledge: Discuss Brainstorm KWL Think-Pair-Share Show and Tell
Building (Knowledge) Background Realia Demonstrate Model Pictures
Word
Picture(that will be relevant to you)
Example(from your life experiences)
Non-example(from your life experiences)
Definition(in your own words)
Frayer Model
Quadratic Function
Function that is not constant and is not a line.
ax2 + bx + c = 0
y = x2
Building Background
Square Root
Function
The inverse of the positive side of the quadratic parent function.
Word Wall
Building Background
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Knowledge-Centered Environments
The ability to think and solve problems requires well-organized knowledge that is accessible in appropriate contexts.
Overlaps with Learner-centered Begins with concern for students’ initial
preconceptions about the subject matter. Concerns about what is developmentally
appropriate at various ages.
Knowledge-Centered Environments
Highlights the importance of thinking about designs for curricula
Learning with understanding vs.
promoting the acquisition of disconnected sets of facts and skills?
Assessment-Centered Environments
Assessment-Centered Environments
Formative Assessments Feedback Theoretical Frameworks
Formats for Assessing Understanding
AssessmentLower level - Lower level - reproduction, reproduction, procedures, concepts, procedures, concepts, definitionsdefinitions
Assessment Middle level - Middle level - connections and connections and integration for problem integration for problem solvingsolving
Assessment Higher level - Higher level - mathematization, mathematization, mathematical thinking, mathematical thinking, generalization, insightgeneralization, insight
Consider the following: A rectangular prism is 2cm x 4cm by 6cm. One
dimension is enlarged by a scale factor of 3. What is the volume of the enlarged figure?
A rectangular prism is 2.7cm x 0.45cm by 609.01cm. One dimension is enlarged by a scale factor of 3.5. What is the volume of the enlarged figure?
When a figure is dilated by a scale factor k to form a similar figure, the ratio of the areas of the two figures is ___ : ___ .
A certain rectangular prism can be painted with n liters of paint. The factory enlarged it by a scale factor of 3 to make a similar prism. How much paint do they need to paint the larger box?
Assessment Items - Where?
Assessment Items - Where?
A rectangular prism is 2cm x 4cm by 6cm. One dimension is enlarged by a scale factor of 3. What is the volume of the enlarged figure?
A rectangular prism is 2.7cm x 0.45cm by 609.01cm. One dimension is enlarged by a scale factor of 3.5. What is the volume of the enlarged figure?
When a figure is dilated by a scale factor k to form a similar figure, the ratio of the areas of the two figures is ___ : ___
A certain rectangular prism can be painted with n liters of paint. The factory enlarged it by a scale factor of 3 to make a similar prism. How much paint do they need to paint the larger box?
Content-process space of Science Assessments
Rich
Open
Constrained
Lean
Science Content Knowledge
Science Process Skills
Organized Organized Cognitive Cognitive ActivityActivity
Structure of KnowledgeStructure of Knowledge
Fragmental Meaningful
Problem Representation
Surface Features and shallow understanding
Underlying principles and relevant concepts
Strategy Use Undirected trial-and-error problem solving
Efficient, informative, and goal oriented
Self-Monitoring
Minimal and sporadic
Ongoing and flexible
Explanation Single statement of fact of description of superficial factors
Principled and coherent
Community-Centered Environments Classroom and School Communities
Value learning High standards
These norms increase opportunities to: Interact Receive feedback learn
Community-Centered Environments
Connections to the Broader Community Homes Community centers, After-school programs businesses
Comparison of time spent in school, home and community, and sleep.
53%
14%
33%
Home and Community School Sleep
Television Watching Different
Kinds of Programs Educational Purely entertaining
Effects on Beliefs and Attitudes Personal perception Perceptions of others
The Importance of Alignment
What is taught. How it is taught. How it is assessed.
Without this alignment, it is difficult to know what is what is learned!!learned!!
ConclusionConclusion
Student-centeredStudent-centered
Knowledge-centeredKnowledge-centered
Assessment-Assessment-centeredcentered
Community-centeredCommunity-centered
There needs to There needs to be alignment be alignment among the four among the four perspectives of perspectives of learning learning environments.environments.
They all have the They all have the potential to potential to overlap and overlap and mutually mutually influence each influence each other.other.
Thank you!