1. Ch. 3 StudyCast SarahBeth Walker

2. NETS-T Standard 1  Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments.”

3. Creative thinkers rely on:  Their knowledge of the content domain  Heuristic knowledge or “tricks of the trade”  Learning strategies  Metacognitive strategies

4. Types of Creative Thinking  Divergent Thinking: starts from a common point and moves outward to a variety of perspectives.  Innovation: aims to produce something original and of value by generating and developing ideas, hypothesizing, imagining possibilities, and seeking new solutions.  Convergent Thinking: attempts to bring together thoughts from different perspectives in order to achieve a common understanding or conclusion.  Critical Thinking: (analytical thinking) determines the validity or value of something. Involves precise, persistent, objective analysis.  Reasoning  Inductive thinking: moves from parts to the whole, from examples to generalizations.  Deductive thinking: moves from the whole to its parts, from generalizations to underlying concepts to examples.

5. Authentic Instruction  The use of real-world issues and problems to facilitate and inspire learning.

6. Characteristics of Authentic Instruction  Learner Autonomy  Active Learning  Holistic Activities  Complex Activities  Challenging Activities

7. Learner Autonomy  Students are able to pursue topics and questions that are interesting and relevant to them.  Students learn how to: 1. Ask important questions 2. Design and conduct investigations 3. Collect, analyze, and interpret data 4. Apply what they have learned to new problems or situations.  Self-Directed Learning: any increase in knowledge, skills, accomplishment, or personal development that an individual selects and brings about by his/her own efforts using any method.  Scaffolds: external supports for learning or solving problems.

8. Active Learning  Mentally active, searching for and manipulating information, synthesizing data, and making interpretations.  Reflection: the learner’s ability to think over the process of learning and to describe what he/she has done and needs to do to achieve meaningful learning.  Articulation: the ability to describe what you have done and explain what resulted and why, as part of meaningful learning.  Transfer: ability to use knowledge or skills in new situations.

9. Holistic Activities  We gain important skills when we learn them within the context of meaningful activities.  Real Contexts: learning activities that allow students to solve active, complex problems.

10. Complex Activities  Real-world tasks or problem-based learning environment.  Authentic Intellectual Work – 3 characteristics:  Construction of Knowledge  Disciplined inquiry  Value beyond school

11. Challenging Activities  Activities we’re motivated to figure out.  Lexiles: a scale that matches the difficulty of reading material to student ability.

12. 2 strategies to manage authentic instruction:  Use of collaborative work groups  Use of technology-based scaffolds.

13. Directed Instruction  A variety of instructional methods that introduce a topic, present the content to be learned, and offer practice to ensure mastery of content.  Characteristics:  Materials & curricula broken down into small steps and arranged in what is assumed to be prerequisite order.  Objectives stated clearly in terms of learner outcomes or performances.  Learners provided with opportunities to connect their new knowledge with what they already know.  Learners are given practice with each step or combination of steps.  Learners experience additional opportuniteis to practice that promote increasing responsibility and independence.  Feedback is provided after each practice opportunity or set of practice opportunities.