T-527 Fall 2005

Developing Curriculum forDeep LearningT-527 Fall 2005

Thursdays 1-4 PMInstructor: Stone Wiske

Teaching Fellows: Lisa Breit and Marielle Palombo

Topic, Goals, Activities, Technologies, Assessment, Logistics

T-527 Fall 2005

Challenge = bridge knowledge-action gap

Connecting educational researchwith practice

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Using theory

To design practice

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Topic

EducationalPrinciples

EducationalTechnologies

How can we deepen learning?

ReflectiveCommunity

Designs for Learning

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Course Goals

• Design curriculum that deepens meaningful learning

• Integrate new technologies to enhance teaching and learning for understanding

• Use technologies to promote collaborative,

reflective curriculum development

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Deepening Meaningful Learning Teaching for Understanding

Frame generative curriculum topicsDefine explicit understanding goalsSupport performances that develop and

demonstrate understandingConduct ongoing assessment with feedback

from multiple sources using public criteriaDevelop collaborative, reflective

communities of learners

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How can new technologiesdeepen meaningful learning?

Make curriculum authentic and generative

Make goals clear and accessible

Support rich, collaborative performances

Enable ongoing assessment and revision

Foster sustained, interactive, collegial curriculum development

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Process

EducationalPrinciples

EducationalTechnologies

How can we deepen our own learning?

ReflectiveCommunity

Designs for Learning

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Learning ActivitiesCurriculum as Collaborative Reflective Design

Read and thinkShare thinking/expertise with classmatesCollaborate with a teacherApply readings and teacher insights to

curriculum design or another projectWrite an analytic paper connecting the

course to your goals

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Learning Technologies

T527 Course Web site: http://icommons.harvard.edu/~gse-t527/

Education with New Technologies Web site: http://learnweb.harvard.edu/ent/

Collaborative Curriculum Design Tool http://learnweb.harvard.edu/ccdt/

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Using technologyfor collaboration, reflection, and

understanding

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T527 Multimedia Teaching CaseOne teacher’s curriculum

design journeyDemonstrates design

processAddresses real-world

implementation of a design

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CollaborativeCurriculumDesignTool

An onlineinteractive workspace that

Scaffolds designOrganizes materialsSupports collaboration

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Use the CCDT for collaboration

Use the CCDT message board to communicate with your coach, collaborators, classmates

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Number Sensewith

Kidspiration

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UnderstandingIonesco’s La LeçonUsing a hotlist made with Filamentality

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Planning your project

• Connect the course to your goals: content, learners, context

• Learn through applying your knowledge

• Critique theory from experience• Consider collaborating—with a teacher,

a classmate, your colleagues

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Ongoing Assessment Process

• Frequent • Clear criteria related to goals• Generating suggestions for

improvement• Shared responsibility

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Logistics

• Review the syllabus on the course Web site• Post/send a note about yourself by Sept. 19• Begin to explore project possibilities• Purchase the books you want or find

readings on Reserve at Gutman Library