Learning Journal #10 Learning in Context by Soo Son https://padlet.com/nhv2as/ayiiipk1h9nm7ab8 Reading: How Learning Happens Part 5, Chapters 22 - 25 en-us 2022-11-12 03:01:05 UTC 2022-11-12 04:26:17 UTC hello@padlet.com Social Learning is not always positive! nhv2as https://padlet.com/nhv2as/ayiiipk1h9nm7ab8/wish/2380789347 Students may be engaged in low-level discussions or misconceptions without pre-requisite knowledge or skills to succeed. This is why assigning group work for the sake of group work is never going to work! ]]> 2022-11-12 03:14:53 UTC https://padlet.com/nhv2as/ayiiipk1h9nm7ab8/wish/2380789347 Peer tutoring can be a powerful tool! nhv2as https://padlet.com/nhv2as/ayiiipk1h9nm7ab8/wish/2380790441 It's true that students often pay more attention to peers than adults. I can carefully arrange peer teaching where one student can help another student in an area in which they are particularly proficient. Again, knowing where each student is in the learning progression is going to be important to facilitate effective social learning.]]> 2022-11-12 03:17:44 UTC https://padlet.com/nhv2as/ayiiipk1h9nm7ab8/wish/2380790441 School learning has become divorced from the practice where it needs to be applied. :( nhv2as https://padlet.com/nhv2as/ayiiipk1h9nm7ab8/wish/2380796193 School learning should look more like everyday learning and this is called situated learning. Knowing cannot be separated from doing. I love the idea of teaching multiplication using coins. I noticed this. When I ask students to do simple subtraction or division, they may struggle but if I say the same numbers in dollars, they immediately answer them for me. :)]]> 2022-11-12 03:35:08 UTC https://padlet.com/nhv2as/ayiiipk1h9nm7ab8/wish/2380796193 Making my teaching more contextual is a good way to ensure that my students can use what they learn in my classroom in their daily lives. nhv2as https://padlet.com/nhv2as/ayiiipk1h9nm7ab8/wish/2380798908 I enjoy teaching quantitative reasoning, statistics, and applied calculus classes because it's easier for me to contextualize authentic learning environments that will help my students translate what they are learning from math class to the world.]]> 2022-11-12 03:44:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nhv2as/ayiiipk1h9nm7ab8/wish/2380798908 21st Century Skills are actually traits that cannot be taught?! nhv2as https://padlet.com/nhv2as/ayiiipk1h9nm7ab8/wish/2380800011 These are actually character traits and not skills whose development can be stimulated or inhibited but cannot be taught. SMH let me just focus on teaching math now.]]> 2022-11-12 03:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nhv2as/ayiiipk1h9nm7ab8/wish/2380800011 Making my own thinking steps visible to my students, Explicit Modeling, and Scaffolding nhv2as https://padlet.com/nhv2as/ayiiipk1h9nm7ab8/wish/2380803462 As the expert in the content area, I should show my students how I solve tasks, which strategies I use and why. After that, my students can practice under supervision, with less guidance and support to be independent. ]]> 2022-11-12 03:57:11 UTC https://padlet.com/nhv2as/ayiiipk1h9nm7ab8/wish/2380803462 Apply tasks in different authentic contexts nhv2as https://padlet.com/nhv2as/ayiiipk1h9nm7ab8/wish/2380805474 Showing students how a certain strategy can be used in multiple situations will help students discover what the underlying core is and when they should apply this strategy. In order to do this, I will not only need to have deep mathematical content knowledge but how math applies in our lives, which I feel a little less confident about. ]]> 2022-11-12 04:03:41 UTC https://padlet.com/nhv2as/ayiiipk1h9nm7ab8/wish/2380805474 Community of Practice nhv2as https://padlet.com/nhv2as/ayiiipk1h9nm7ab8/wish/2380807164 Community of practice can create and share domain-specific knowledge that more formal systems cannot. I love talking to other instructors of courses I teach whenever I run into them in the copying room, hallway, and definitely miss having PLC in departments. I wish my community college division has more of those opportunities. ]]> 2022-11-12 04:09:42 UTC https://padlet.com/nhv2as/ayiiipk1h9nm7ab8/wish/2380807164 Technology has afforded communities more opportunities nhv2as https://padlet.com/nhv2as/ayiiipk1h9nm7ab8/wish/2380808352 I love that we created Wakelets in this class. We, as a community, produced a set of artefacts that will remain practically useful as the community grows.]]> 2022-11-12 04:14:08 UTC https://padlet.com/nhv2as/ayiiipk1h9nm7ab8/wish/2380808352 Peripheral participant! nhv2as https://padlet.com/nhv2as/ayiiipk1h9nm7ab8/wish/2380809468 It's ok to be a newcomer of a community and participate in simple, often low-risk tasks that are nevertheless productive and necessary and which further the goals of the community. I may be peaking in right now but someday I'll make bigger contribution to these communities.]]> 2022-11-12 04:18:29 UTC https://padlet.com/nhv2as/ayiiipk1h9nm7ab8/wish/2380809468 Cognitive Apprenticeship - Constructing a Knowledge Hierarchy? nhv2as https://padlet.com/nhv2as/ayiiipk1h9nm7ab8/wish/2380811601 Making the practice of thinking and problem-solving in math more observable for students may be more challenging than making the processes of activity visible. I remember reading about constructing a skills hierarchy to make explicit the interacting elements in Sweller. I may do something similar to make thinking explicit for learners.]]> 2022-11-12 04:26:17 UTC https://padlet.com/nhv2as/ayiiipk1h9nm7ab8/wish/2380811601