Learning Objectives
GOALS of Authentic Learning
Acquiring Knowledge
The process of absorbing and storing new information, the success of which is often gauged by ability to recall. This is NOT the long term learning goal.
It is the 'sweet spot' that will take up more instructional time but can be accomplished only when students have the acquired knowledge to go deeper
This is achieved when students begin to apply their knowledge to new and unique learning situations and apply it to a real-world situation.
Making Meaning
Transfer
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KNOWLEDGE
Acquiring Knowledge
aka Surface learning
Goal: to learn vital facts & skills so they become automatic
Teacher's Role: Direct Instruction with lessons to support what they need to know and do
Learner's Role: attentiveness, lots of practice, memorize, rehearsal
What activities support acquiring knowledge in your content area?
Acquiring Knowledge
Sample Learning Activities
Acquiring Knowledge
Graphic Organizers
It is used before reading to activate background knowledge, during reading to monitor vocabulary, or after reading to assess vocabulary.
Frayer Model
Acquiring Knowledge
This looks like:
Acquiring Knowledge
Graphic Organizers
StudyMate transforms terms, facts or multiple choice questions into Flash Cards, Pick A Letter, Fill in the Blank, Crosswords, and more. There are 11 self-assessments and games in all, supporting a range of learning styles and objectives.
StudyMate
Acquiring Knowledge
StudyMate is integrated into Canvas for all FISD courses
BRain Dump
Is a Retrieval practice that is simply pulling information "out" rather than cramming it "in," is a powerful strategy for learning.
NO TECH: Paper & pencil
A simple pencil-and-paper brain dump can have great benefits. Have students recall as much information as they can from a topic or previous lesson.
any TECH: Socrative or mentimeter
Acquiring Knowledge
Jigsaw Method
Acquiring Knowledge
Google Slides is a free online tool to help users create presentations, interactive notebooks, and learning resources. You can collaborate with others, publish online, or download an image file. You can use the built-in Theme Builder to create templates where you choose what elements students can modify and which ones they cannot. To use the Jigsaw Method template, built using the Theme Builder, click on the link below.
Jigsaw Method
Acquiring Knowledge
Acquiring Knowledge
Google Jamboard, allows students to share the document and work collaboratively with others.
Template: You will want to click on the More Actions icon (three dots to the left of the blue Share button) and click Make a copy.
Jigsaw Method
BLOOKET
This looks like:
Why this works: Gamification can be a bit of external motivation. If winning the game becomes motivation for getting repetitions with new math skills, it can create conditions for successful practice with the content.
BONUS: Do a one-question deep dive with a video tool like Screencastify. Instead of doing lots of practice problems, have students do a one-question deep dive. In it, they record themselves working through one problem -- just one! -- and explaining their steps and thought process. It helps us see patterns, problems, and things to adjust.
Gamification
Acquiring Knowledge
This looks like:
competition
GIMKIT
kahoot
quizizz
Customized Breakouts
Acquiring Knowledge
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UNDERSTAND
ANALYZE
APPLY
EVALUATE
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Making Meaning
& Processing Information
Goal: active intellectual work by the learner to make sense of the content and implications
Teacher's Role: Facilitate Teaching
Learner's Role: making inferences, forming & testing a theory, looking for connections and patterns
aka deep learning
Making Meaning
Sample Learning Activities
Don Quixote (1955). Pablo Picasso.
WL: Vocabulary Flashcards of the Culture in Spain.
ELA: Write 3 character traits of Scarlet O’Hara.
WL: Create an advertisement for a Bed and Breakfast on the Costa Brava.
ELA: Build a library for Scarlet O’Hara of what would appeal to her and why.
Making Meaning
Acquiring Knowledge
Making
Meaning
_Surface learning_
_Deep learning_
WL: Use StudyMate to practice weather vocabulary
ELA: Complete a plot diagram over Romeo and Juliet.
WL: Make a recording of what you’d pack to visit a place using weather vocabulary.
ELA: Create a set of counseling notes based on Friar Lawrence’s feelings about Juliet’s death.
Making Meaning
Acquiring Knowledge
Making
Meaning
_Surface learning_
_Deep learning_
WL: Have students write a description of their family and their characteristics.
ELA: Have students write a book report to promote their Dystopian novel.
WL: Have students create a Traveling Suitcase Unboxing Video where they unbox items that describe their family characteristics.
ELA:Have students create a Time Capsule Unboxing that contains important items specific from their novel.
Making Meaning
Acquiring Knowledge
Making
Meaning
_Surface learning_
_Deep learning_
When you place an idea on a hexagon, it has six sides where connections could be made to other ideas. When you place many ideas on many hexagons, the discussion about where to connect what will be different every time.
If you gave the same seven idea cards to seven people, do you think you’d get the same seven webs of interconnected hexagons? Would the people explain the connections in the same way?
Hexagonal Thinking
Making Meaning
Making Meaning
1984
Orwell
Truthiness
McCarthyism
Big Brother
Cold War
Winston
Surveillance
Online Privacy
Julia
Communism
O’Brien
Marx
Stalin
Fear
The U.S.
Doublethink
Thoughtcrime
Terms
Making Meaning
QSSSA
Acquiring Knowledge
Acquiring Knowledge