eSchool News
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Teaching what’s timeless: Power skills and mental models The solution lies in embracing the timeless. This “meta-knowledge” is encapsulated by the set of understandings called Mental Models. This “meta-knowledge” is encapsulated by the set of understandings called Mental Models.
Edsurge
JULY 19, 2023
He’s spent his 25-year career working for social change and transformation within public education, in part through what he calls “humanizing mental models and systems.” Antonio Vigil is director of innovative classroom technology at Aurora Public Schools in Colorado.
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Edsurge
JANUARY 22, 2019
When a student is a contributor,” he adds, “it turbo-charges their ability to employ the other competencies and their content knowledge.” The Human Factor The unifying theme of these various frameworks seems to be the human factor.
Dangerously Irrelevant
MARCH 17, 2015
There is a wealth of research on the TPACK and SAMR frameworks, Bloom’s taxonomy, Webb’s Depth of Knowledge, the Authentic Intellectual Work framework, the Instructional Practices Inventory, the Florida/Arizona Technology Integration Matrices, and other mental models of technology integration and/or higher-order thinking work.
Dangerously Irrelevant
MARCH 6, 2019
My favorite is probably the quote from Joe Sanfelippo and Tony Sinanis: ‘In the absence of knowledge, people make up their own.’ Tom and Eric do a great job of citing research in their book, but it would be helpful to have some research-based frameworks and mental models that tie the list items together.
Lab to Class
MARCH 31, 2024
The researchers found that the style of drawing and mental model used to solve the problem was highly predictive of whether the student was able to find the faster way to solve the problem or not.
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