Comments on: Using “understanding” for instruction planning… a tricky task. http://www.gate-connect.com/wp/2010/01/31/using-understanding-for-instruction-planning-a-tricky-task/ Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:54:35 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: kbolman http://www.gate-connect.com/wp/2010/01/31/using-understanding-for-instruction-planning-a-tricky-task/comment-page-1/#comment-34 kbolman Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:20:32 +0000 http://www.gate-connect.com/wp/?p=935#comment-34 Wonderful paper. I am creating a course in the history of art and architecture in which I embed questions to foster the beginning of understanding. The course is online so I am not there to discuss any of the issues. I ask each student to do something with the information from a micro lesson, a painting, a pot, a poem, a fairy tale. This begins critical thinking as the student will revisit the images in the micro lesson to figure out what to do. In the process of doing something skills are either learned or used based on past skill development. In this process I expect the students to gain knowledge. If there is a teacher present and the class goes to the next micro lesson they will be able to contrast and compare the culture of the people. If they choose to do a painting based on this micro lesson they will be able to discuss the differences between how cultures tell their stories. If you have time the site is ahaafoundation.org Katherine Wonderful paper. I am creating a course in the history of art and architecture in which I embed questions to foster the beginning of understanding. The course is online so I am not there to discuss any of the issues. I ask each student to do something with the information from a micro lesson, a painting, a pot, a poem, a fairy tale. This begins critical thinking as the student will revisit the images in the micro lesson to figure out what to do. In the process of doing something skills are either learned or used based on past skill development. In this process I expect the students to gain knowledge. If there is a teacher present and the class goes to the next micro lesson they will be able to contrast and compare the culture of the people. If they choose to do a painting based on this micro lesson they will be able to discuss the differences between how cultures tell their stories.
If you have time the site is ahaafoundation.org
Katherine

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