Extending and Applying Knowledge
More Tools....Creation!
Creative tools allow students to express and recreate their ideas and learning. As teachers, we know that designing a learning experience often means that we know the content best. Why not get students to be the curators and creators? Then they own the knowledge and learn it best.
This wonderful post by Shelley Wright challenges the traditional Bloom's Taxonomy placing greater influence on the "create".
This wonderful post by Shelley Wright challenges the traditional Bloom's Taxonomy placing greater influence on the "create".
Extending and Applying Knowledge
This final section of the teaching process is important as it helps deepen understanding and knowledge for students.
Students are living in a world that is rapidly changing. As part of that world, they will not always have "right answers" because they may need to discover what that is.
As educators, we must help students to extend beyond the basic understanding of concepts to help students apply their skills and knowledge to real-world contexts. We facilitate the learning to build effecient and flexible learners. We teach complex reasoning processes to use knowledge meaningfully.
Students are living in a world that is rapidly changing. As part of that world, they will not always have "right answers" because they may need to discover what that is.
As educators, we must help students to extend beyond the basic understanding of concepts to help students apply their skills and knowledge to real-world contexts. We facilitate the learning to build effecient and flexible learners. We teach complex reasoning processes to use knowledge meaningfully.
Teaching Strategies
The following strategies help to establish a learning climate that promotes developing understanding.
Research by John Hattie in Visible Learning highlighted over 800 meta-analyses. His research confirmed the importance of these strategies for having strong influence on achievement of school-aged children:
- Problem-solving teaching had a 0.61 effect size when students were explicitly taught sequences for solving problems including defining the problem, identifying alternatives, and using multiple perspectives
Research by John Hattie in Visible Learning highlighted over 800 meta-analyses. His research confirmed the importance of these strategies for having strong influence on achievement of school-aged children:
- Problem-solving teaching had a 0.61 effect size when students were explicitly taught sequences for solving problems including defining the problem, identifying alternatives, and using multiple perspectives