Let’s Get Started! Visit all 5 Registration Stations, and locate your team’s table. 1) Welcome to the Ranch – registration 2) Wanted: Content Experts – content knowledge survey 3) Saloon – picturing engineering & technology 4) OK (state) Corral – computer assessment 5) Happy Trails – Select two pictures: one that represents engineering and one that doesn’t
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Let’s Get Started!Visit all 5 Registration Stations, and locate your team’s table.
1) Welcome to the Ranch – registration2) Wanted: Content Experts – content
technology4) OK (state) Corral – computer assessment5) Happy Trails – Select two pictures:
one that represents engineering and one that doesn’t
Welcome to the OSU Improving
Teacher Quality Institute
Pasha Antonenko, Ed TechRebecca Damron, EnglishJean Dockers, ScienceKaren High, EngineeringGayla Hudson, EducationAlonzo Peterson, MathSusan Stansberry, Ed Tech/Library
Assessments
Survey of Enacted Curriculum◦If you have not already done this, please see
Linda Goeller this afternoon!Registration Station Assessments
◦Content Knowledge SurveyVideo and Task Sheets
◦During activities we will be randomly video taping and filling out task sheets regarding design processes.
What is Engineering?
Boston Museum of Science◦What is technology◦What is engineering
Tools are available on line that you can use for your students.
What is technology?• “…the diverse collection of processes and
knowledge that people use to extend human abilities and to satisfy human needs and wants” (ITEA, 2000)
• “In the broadest sense, technology extends our abilities to change the world… We use technology to try to change the world to suit us better.” (AAAS, 1989)
Collected by Cathy Lachapelle and Christine CunninghamBoston Museum of Science
• An engineer is “a person who is trained in and uses technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems”. Engineers “are the innovators and designers”. (ITEA 2000)
• Engineers are problem solvers who search for quicker, better, and less expensive ways to use the forces and materials of nature to meet today’s challenges.” (ASEE website)
• “Engineers solve problems by applying scientific principles to practical ends.” (AAAS Benchmarks, p. 48)
Lachapelle and Cunningham
What is Engineering?
1. Select two pictures:◦ One that represents engineering◦ One that is not engineering
2. As an individual, write in your journal about why you selected the pictures you did
3. As a team classify the pictures into those that represent engineering and those that are not engineering
4. As a team, select one picture that best represents engineering
5. Select a team representative to share
Picturing Engineering
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How do students conceptualize technology?• products, not processes (deVries 1996)• modern or new (deVries 1996, Cunningham,
• powered, especially by electricity (Cunningham, Lachapelle, & Lindgren-Streicher 2006, Solomonidou & Tassios 2007)Lachapelle and Cunningham
How do students conceptualize engineering?• engineers fix things (especially buildings,
cars, electrical things, or engines)• engineers build things (especially buildings
or electrical things)
Lachapelle and Cunningham
Students’ conceptions are:• Rooted in activities that focus on
construction, building, machinery, and vehicles.
• Based on the products, not the type of work engineers do.
• Children associate “engineering” with only a few engineering fields. These include: Civil engineering Computer engineering Electrical engineeringLachapelle and Cunningham
Click icon to add picturePBL places students in the active role of problem-solvers confronted with an ill-structured problem which mirrors real-world problems. PBL simultaneously develops problem solving strategies, disciplinary knowledge bases, and skills.
Click icon to add pictureWhat do I know about this?What is the problem?
How can we model this?What solutions are possible?
What are the evaluative criteria?
What do we need to know?Who will collect the information?Where will I find the information?Is the information useful/reliable?
How can I teach my group?What can they teach me?
How to apply my new knowledge?What documentation is needed?
What similar problems can I solve?
Understanding the Problem
Learning
Solving
INTEGRATING CURRICULA
Marion BradyHoward Brady
Center for Integrated Curricula
OUR STUDENTS ARE FACED WITH AN AVALANCHE OF INFORMATION:
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The quantity of information grows geometrically…
FOR EXAMPLE A survey of four popular eighth-grade textbooks identified 1,465 concepts thought by the authors to be important and difficult enough to include in their glossaries.
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THE THEORY SEEMS TO BE
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Much of what’s “taught” and “learned” (at great cost in time and money) is soon forgotten.
WHY? WHAT’S WRONG?Maybe the basic assumption is wrong, that “educated” means merely “having a lot of information in mental storage.”
Shouldn’t “educated” mean, “able to make more sense of self, of others, of the world, of experience, of life?”
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MAKING MORE SENSE OF LIFE?
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“Making more sense of life” means making more sense of immediate experience, more sense of the real world, right here, right now. It means making more sense, say, of buying a pair of socks.
MAKING MORE SENSE OF LIFE:
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We want a pair of socks. Those available have been knitted in a third world country.
MAKING SENSE OF LIFE:
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Power to run the knitting machines is supplied by burning fossil fuels:
MAKING SENSE OF LIFE:
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Burning fossil fuels contributes to global warming.
Money spent for infrastructure replacement isn’t available for health care.
MAKING SENSE OF LIFE:
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Declines in the quality of health care affect mortality rates.
MAKING SENSE OF LIFE:
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Mortality is a matter of life and death.
MAKING SENSE OF LIFE:
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Buying socks, then, is a matter of life and death.
THE PROBLEM?Buying a pair of socks is simple. Ordinary. Routine.But making sense of it (which is what education is supposed to help us do) turns out to require, at the very least, some understanding of marketing, physics, chemistry, meteorology, economics, engineering, psychology, sociology, political science, anthropology… 44
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THE PROBLEM:
…And it requires an understanding of the relationships between these fields of knowledge.
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THE PROBLEM:Making sense of experience requires the seamless weaving together of knowledge. Fields of study are now walled off from each other with awkward, artificial, arbitrary boundaries. Because of this, our brains are denied, in real and immediate ways, access to the raw materials essential for productive, creative thought.
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IT’S A REAL PROBLEM.“It is a well-known scandal that our whole
educational system is geared more to categorizing and analyzing patches of knowledge than to threading them together.” (Harlan Cleveland)
“Students rarely have an opportunity to discover what one set of ideas has to do with another.” (Philip Sabaratta)
“Our educational systems…are now primarily designed to teach people specialized knowledge—to enable students to divide and dissect knowledge. At the heart of this pattern of teaching is…a view of the world that is quite simply false.” (James Coomer)
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“All of our experience should have made it clear by now that faculty and students will not derive from a list of disjointed courses a coherent curriculum revealing the necessary interdependence of knowledge.” (Daniel Tanner)
“The division into subjects and periods encourages a segmented rather than an integrated view of knowledge. Consequently, what students are asked to relate to in schooling becomes increasingly artificial, cut off from the human experiences subject matter is supposed to reflect.” (John I. Goodlad) 48
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INTEGRATING CURRICULA
The boundaries between school subjects are barriers to understanding. We propose to integrate curricula by building, in students’ minds, a unifying and organizing framework for all knowledge.
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THIS MENTAL FRAMEWORK WILL ALLOW STUDENTS TO:Identify relevant informationEstablish relative levels of significance
Place data in contextFind relationships between various pieces of information
Tie everything together to make sense of complex reality.
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FAILING TO GIVE STUDENTS A MENTAL FRAMEWORK FOR KNOWLEDGE…
…may be the biggest single failure of education today. Even if our goal is simply to help them remember information long enough to pass the standardized test, the right framework provides the “storage slots” for this information.
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If our goal is to improve our students’ abilities to understand and cope with complex reality, an adequate framework is even more essential.
A SINGLE FRAMEWORK IS NEEDED.As we saw, all of reality is linked.
Making sense of it requires a single framework capable of linking seemingly unrelated information.
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Sustainability
Sustainability can be defined as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” [Brundtland Report (1987)].
Planning Team Module and Preparation for Student Academy
Changes and Preparation for Day 2 of Student Academy
Wrap Up of Student Academy
Planning for Implementation
Expectations for Workshop
Engagement on teams (school & content)Each team will create a new lesson to be
posted on the K20 Alternative Ed website Week 1 @ OSU; Week 2 @ OSU & KeysFollow-up daysTeacher Work SampleEvaluator classroom observationAssessments for grant evaluationTeam teach a lesson to a group of