EDC 365C: Knowing and Learning in Mathematics and Science
Fall 2006
Course Teaching Assistant: Adem Ekmekci ekmekci@mail.utexas.edu
Course Webpage: http://128.83.243.140/classes/knl2006fall/knl2006.htm
Required Materials:
Course Packet. Available from IT Copy on MLK.
Additional readings and materials will be provided in class and/or on the course website.
Additional Requirements:
Students must use a word processor and e-mail, and have access to a web browser. Presentations, if applicable, must be submitted in advance as PowerPoint files.
Description:
The goal of this course is to develop a powerful tool kit of approaches to knowing and learning in mathematics and science. This course focuses on issues of what it means to learn and know science and mathematics. What are the standards for knowing we will use? How is knowing and learning structured and how does what we know change and develop? For the science and mathematics educator, what are the tensions between general, cross-disciplinary characterizations of knowing (e.g., intelligence) and the specifics of coming to understand powerful ideas in mathematics and science? What are the links between knowing and developing in learning theory, and the content and evolution of scientific ideas? What are the connections between kinds of assessments and theories of knowing? How are various uses of technology associated with specific approaches to learning?
Tentative Course Schedule
R: Reading to be done before class so as to answer questions
D: What’s Due in class. Answers to web questions are submitted the day before class
IC: In Class Activity
Week 2: Testing for Intelligence?
Week 3: Measurement and Assessment
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Sept. 12 |
R: (4) Popham: The Seductive Allure of Data (5) Black & Wiliam.: Inside the Black Box D: Web questions and Interview write-up. IC: Discussion of Interviews |
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Sept. 14 |
R: (6) HG: Chapter 2 – Origins of Scientific Perspective (7) HG: Chapter 3 – The Psychometric Tradition D: Web questions IC: Discussion |
Week 4: Nature vs. Nurture
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Sept. 19 |
R: (8) HG: Chapter 5 – Biological Perspectives (9) NRC: High Stakes: Tracking D: Web questions IC: Statistics from Texas and beyond |
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Sept. 21 |
R: (10) Boeree: B.F. Skinner (11) Skinner: Teaching Machines D: Web questions IC: Sleek 8 |
Week 5: The Cognitive Revolution and Multiple Intelligences
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Sept. 26 |
R: (12) Gardner: Cognitive Science (13) HG: Ch 6 – The Cognitive Perspective (14) Polya: How to Solve It (15) Eliza: Notes about… D: Second Interview Due and Web questions IC: Eliza and Neural Networks |
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Sept. 28 |
R: (16) HG: Multiple Intelligences (17) HG: Reflections on MI D: Web questions IC: What is my learning style |
Week 6: Constructivism and Direct Instruction
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Oct. 3 |
R: (18) Papert: On Piaget (19) HG: The Developmental Perspective (19opt) Driver: Pupil as Scientist D: Web questions IC: Kine-mouse / Equilibrium game |
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Oct. 5 |
R: (20) Gagne: Issues in the Psychology of Mathematics Instruction D: Web questions IC: Discussion |
Week 7: Minds in Society and Society of Minds
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Oct. 10 |
R: (21) Stroup: Learning the Basics with Calculus (22) Piaget: Structuralism – Reversibility D: Web questions IC: Mathworlds and Reversibility |
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Oct. 12 |
R: (23) Vygostky: Mind in Society Ch. 1 (24) Bigge & Shermis: Ch. 6 D: Web questions IC: Model-eliciting activity (MEA) Guidelines for MEA Assignment |
Week 8: Modeling and Learning
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Oct. 17 |
R: (25) Zawojewski & Carmona (2001) (26) Lesh: Principles for Developing Thought-revealing Activities for Students and Teachers D: Web questions IC: Model-eliciting activity Presentations |
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Oct. 19 |
MIDTERM |
Week 10: Experts and Novices and Children’s Ideas in Math and Science
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Oct. 24 |
R: (27) HPL: Ch.2 – How Experts Differ from Novices D: Web questions IC: Concept Map Activity |
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Oct. 26 |
R: (28) Driver et al.: Children’s Ideas and the Learning of Science (29) Driver et al.: Some Features of Children’s Ideas and their Implications for Teaching D: Web questions IC: Discussion and Electricity Video |
Week 11: Teaching in Math and Science
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Oct. 31 |
R: (30) Schoenfeld: When Good Teaching Leads to Bad Results D: Web questions IC: Discussion and Electricity Video (cont.) |
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Nov. 2 |
R: (31) HPL: Chapter 7 – Effective Teaching in Math and Science (pp. 155-189) D: Web questions IC: Ms. Lindquist |
Week 12: Everyday Problem Solving
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Nov. 7 |
D: MEA Assignment Due IC: Developing a Scoring Rubric for MEA’s |
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Nov. 9 |
R: (32) Lave: Problem Solving as an Everyday Practice D: Web questions IC: Discussion |
Week 13: In School and Out
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Nov. 14 |
R: (33) Grubb: The New Vocationalism (34) Cammarata: Education for Living –and for Life D: Web questions IC: Discussion |
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Nov. 16 |
R: (35) Resnick: Learning in School and Out D: Web questions IC: Discussion |
Week 14: Critical Pedagogy
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Nov. 21 |
R: (36) Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed D: Web questions IC: Discussion |
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Nov. 23 |
THANKSGIVING DAY NO CLASS |
Week 15: Literacy and Agency and Classrooms as Complex Systems
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Nov. 28 |
R: (37) Moses: Radical Equations and Interview (38) Papert: Mindstorms D: Web questions IC: Net logo |
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Nov. 30 |
R: (39) Senge: Ch. 2 – The Fifth Discipline D: Web questions IC: Discussion – The beer game |
Week 16: Generativity
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Dec. 5 |
R: (40) Stroup: Taxonomy of Generative Activities D: Web questions IC: Generativity |
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Dec. 7 |
Final Exam |
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