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Course Syllabus
EDC
371 - Knowing and Learning Fall 2000
Dr. Walter M. Stroup
Dr. Patrick Callahan
Office: SZB - 462 phone: 471-3747 email: wmsUTA@hotmail.com web: http://www.edb.utexas.edu/faculty/wstroup/kandl2000_site/kandl.htm Office hours: Tuesday 2-3 (except on travel days) Required Materials: Course Packet. (Abbreviated as CP; available from IT Copy on MLK by September 4) HG: Intelligence: Multiple Perspectives, by Gardner, Kornhaber, and Wake HPL: How People Learn, by National Research Council
Additional Requirement: Students must use word processor, email and have access to web browser.
Description: 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?
1-Aug 31 Introduction to Course R: (Reading to be done before class so as to answer questions) D: (What is Due in class; answers to Web questions are submitted day before class) 2-Sept 5 I. Nature vs. Nurture R: CP:Lemann - Behind the SAT (Newsweek) D: Web Questions and Interview Write-Up 3-Sept 8 R: CP: NRC - High Stakes: Tests as Measurement CP: Sacks - Standardized Minds (Three Excerpts) HPL: Assessment-Centered Environments (Summative and Formative) pp. 127-129 D: Web Questions 4-Sept 12 R: HG: Chapter 2 - Origins of Scientific Perspective HG: Chapter 3 - The Psychometric Tradition D: Web Questions 5-Sept 14 R: HG: Ch. 5 - pp. 135-147 (Physical brains and actual smarts, Is there a connection?) CP: NRC - High Stakes: Tracking D: Web Questions 6-Sept 19 R: CP: Skinner - A Brief Survey of Operant Behavior CP: Boeree - B. F. Skinner CP: Skinner - Teaching Machines D: Web Questions 7-Sept 21 R: HG: Gardner - MI pp. 202-214; Collins - Seven Kinds of Smart (Time) D: Web Questions 8-Sept 26 R: CP: Stroup & Wilensky Excerpt 1 D: Second Interview Due 9-Sept 28 II. The Cognitive Revolution - GLOBAL R: CP: The Mind's New Science, Howard Gardner D: Web Questions 10-Oct 3 R: HG: From Chapter 4 - pp. 97-114 (Piaget); CP: Piaget - The Child's Conception of Movement and Speed D: Web Questions 11-Oct 5 R: HG: Ch. 4 - pp. 120-129; Ch. 6 - pp. 161-181 (General knowledge, domain knowledge, and expert systems) D: Web Questions 12-Oct 10 R: Text: From Ch. 7 - pp. 199-200 (ZPD) CP: Vygotsky Excerpts D: Web Questions 13-Oct 12 R: CP: Piaget - Structuralism D: Web Questions 14-Oct 17 TEST 15-Oct 19 III. Cognitive Approaches to Domain Specific Learning R: HPL: Chapter 2 - How Experts Differ from Novices pp. 19-38 D: Web Questions 16-Oct 24 R: CP: Table & Common sense reasoning about motion, Halloun & Hestenes (Read first article; On web answer selected questions from second article) D: Web Questions 17-Oct 26 R: HPL: Effective Teaching - Mathematics pp. 152-159 D: Web Questions 18-Oct 31 R: HPL: Effective Teaching - Science Conceptual Change pp.167-177 CP: Bruner - Tool as amplifier D: Web Questions 19-Nov 2 R: HPL: Effective Teaching - Science (Novice-Expert) pp. 159-166 D: Web Questions 20-Nov 7 R: D: Novice-Expert Interview/Paper Due 21-Nov 9 IV. Social-Community and the Critique of General/Abstract/Canonical (privileged) Knowledge R: CP: Problem Solving as an Everyday Practice, J. Lave D: Web Questions 22-Nov 14 R: CP: Learning in school and out, L. Resnick D: Web Questions 23-Nov 16 R: CP: Aamodt & Plaza; CP: Schank - The Idea of Curriculum D: Web Questions 24-Nov 21 R: CP: Papert - Mindstorms (excerpt) D: Web Questions Nov 23 Thanksgiving 25-Nov 28 V. Interdisciplinary - Systems/Modeling R: D: 26-Nov 30 R: CP: ETS - Does it Compute? D: Web Questions 27-Dec 5 R: CP: Senge - Prisoners of the System or … D: Web Questions 28-Dec 7 R: CP: Wilensky & Stroup - Gridlock CP: What are promising ways … CP: Stroup & Wilensky - Excerpt 2 D: Web Questions FINALS The University of Texas at Austin provides upon request appropriate academic accommodations for qualified students with disabilities. For more information, contact the Office of the Dean of Students at 471-6259, 471-4641 TTY.