Connecting provocations and wonderings - Understanding the types of engagements that will result in deeper and more enduring learning.
Thinking about what is essential to include in class - eliminating nice to dos. Student are excellent at accessing new knowledge through their use of technology so we need to think critically about what we will include in class - there must be a good reason.
How do you open up so that students have a voice in where the inquiry will go?
Rocket Writing - 1 minute to write
What is knowledge building?
How can you engage all students in the first 2 weeks of the unit?
How can you make units meaningful/purposeful for students?
What is the piece of the unit that the students are going to personally engage with?
Related concepts give you the direction of the unit and it will be these that you can use to engage the students.
Neil deGrasse Tyson - The Most Human Activity
How do you get in the way of student discovery?
How is this learning engagement going to take the students deeper in their understanding of the conceptual ideas? - Learning engagements can serve as a formative assessment.
What does documenting look like?
Primary resources - People, places and things
Investigation to engage with something.
Using books is inquiry for information NOT inquiry for meaning.
Inquiry-Based Learning: From teacher guided to student driven
Authentic and purposeful experiences that are trans-disciplinary.
Real-world contexts.
"The greatest enemy to understanding is coverage" - Howard Gardner
Which are concepts and which are facts?
Concept - through the lense of...
You have to be connected for you to validate prior knowledge.
Provocations are key to help students connect their prior knowledge.
Look into: Upside-down drawing
UOI Review - Conceptual Unpacking
Provocation
Curiosity and Wondering Activity
What concepts may be focussed on in each provocation?
How could you adapt and change these to suit your on UOIs?
Science Literacy: Sparking curiosity and solving real-world problems
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