https://padlet.com/michael_britt/g5b0rdbb39cc en-us 2018-07-15 23:33:34 UTC 2025-12-20 14:46:55 UTC hello@padlet.com michael_britt https://padlet.com/michael_britt/g5b0rdbb39cc/wish/270249438 You must put the learner in a situation in which the students' existing model does not work... get somebody puzzled, tied in knots, and mixed up. The puzzles and knots generate expectations for students...and then you begin to help them untie the knots.

..create what some of the literature calls an "expectation failure" in which existing mental models will lead to faulty expectations, causing students to realize the problems they face in believing whatever they currently believe.]]> 2018-07-15 23:47:47 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_britt/g5b0rdbb39cc/wish/270249438 michael_britt https://padlet.com/michael_britt/g5b0rdbb39cc/wish/270249487 Rather than telling students they are wrong and then providing the "correct" answers, ask questions to help students see their own mistakes. What are the paradigms students will bring to your class that you want them to question?]]> 2018-07-15 23:49:15 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_britt/g5b0rdbb39cc/wish/270249487 michael_britt https://padlet.com/michael_britt/g5b0rdbb39cc/wish/270249490 They craft assignments in a way that allows students to try their own thinking, come up short, receive feedback, and try again.]]> 2018-07-15 23:49:18 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_britt/g5b0rdbb39cc/wish/270249490 michael_britt https://padlet.com/michael_britt/g5b0rdbb39cc/wish/270249700 ...students must learn the facts while learning to use them to make decisions about what they understand or what they should do.... teach the facts in a rich context of problems, issues, and questions....]]> 2018-07-15 23:53:15 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_britt/g5b0rdbb39cc/wish/270249700 michael_britt https://padlet.com/michael_britt/g5b0rdbb39cc/wish/270249898 People learn best when they ask an important question that they care abut answering, or adopt a goal that they want to reach.]]> 2018-07-15 23:56:58 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_britt/g5b0rdbb39cc/wish/270249898 michael_britt https://padlet.com/michael_britt/g5b0rdbb39cc/wish/270250037 ...begin with what seems most familiar and fascinating to students.....help students to understand the connection between current topics and some larger and more fundamental inquiry, and in so doing find common ground in those "big questions" that motivated their own efforts to learn...keep the larger questions of the course constantly in the forefront..b.uild a solid connection between [the teacher's] questions and [the] students' lives and interests.]]> 2018-07-16 00:00:20 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_britt/g5b0rdbb39cc/wish/270250037 michael_britt https://padlet.com/michael_britt/g5b0rdbb39cc/wish/270255641 Link to book in Amazon]]> 2018-07-16 00:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_britt/g5b0rdbb39cc/wish/270255641