A SMART Board Assisted Pedagogy

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A SMART Board Assisted Pedagogy

We may have been great fools to develop the post office, to invent the newspaper and the railway; but the harm is done--it will be our children who see it; we have created a Frankenstein monster at whom our simplicity can only gape." Henry James ca. 1890

We live in The Age of InfoglutHenry James’ self-fulfilling prophecy

“. . .at whom our simplicity can only gape.”

The answer depends on “contextualized” knowledge:

Teaching Role Transitions

Behavioral Psychology (B.F. Skinner):

Contrast with “Cognitive Psychology” and learning:

Dialogue = dichotomy between Learner Center & Teacher Center

Important scientific findings about “expertise”:

Experts’ knowledge cannot be reduced to sets of isolated facts or propositions but, instead, reflects contexts of applicability; knowledge is “conditionalized” on a set of circumstances.

Though experts know their disciplines thoroughly, this does not guarantee that they are able to teach others.

Cognitive scientists call expert knowledge “conditionalized” ~ it includes a specification of the contexts in which it is useful.

Conditionalized Knowledge

Pedagogical content knowledge

Rx from “absentee” curriculum developers:

Connecting the dots!

Answer = 100127

A few of the majors:

Practically impossible unless you you have a copy of the cognition theorist’s Rosetta Stone (or a Captain Video decoder ring):

Which tool do I need to scoop ice cream?

My assessments (short list):

Which to choose?

Adoption requires multimedia instruction methodology

Jacobson & Spiro studies 1995

http://www.nap.edu/catalog/6160.html

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