Slide 2 Conceptual Frameworks in Legal Research Instruction:
Where Pedagogy and Design Principles Meet to Make Better Tutorials
and Presentations Paul D. Callister, JD, MSLIS Director of the Leon
E. Bloch Law Library & Associate Professor of Law Email
[email protected]@umkc.edu
http://www1.law.umkc.edu/faculty/callister/models/cali04.ppt 2004,
Paul D. Callister Slide 3 Take out a sheet of paper, in the next
two minutes graphically represent (other then in grammatical
sentences) your favorite subject to teach. Slide 4 Part I Why
Bother with Conceptual Frameworks? Slide 5 The Problem The Problem
Find Ursa Major and Draco Slide 6 The Solution Slide 7 We do not
first see, and then define, We define first, and then see. We do
not first see, and then define, We define first, and then see.
--Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion 81 (7 th printing, 1961) Slide 8
Semantic Network Theory Our memory is organized into networks
consisting of interlinked nodes. Nodes are basic pieces of
information or individual words.... Learning is the process of
building new knowledge structures by acquiring new nodes. Peter A.
Hook, Creating an Online Tutorial and Pathfinder, 94 Law Libr. J.
243, 248-49 (2002) (citations omitted) Picture Ommitted Slide 9