Evaluating and Identifying Online Resources
As I evaluated the article, “What is a Thinking Curriculum?" I was amazed at its finding. This article, for example, characterizes the importance of successful learners that have emerged from various research perspectives—cognitive, philosophical and multicultural. These patterns of learning speak to the core concept of how we learn. I find that the information is critical to instructional designers and teachers as they develop better learning curriculum for students in a more concise and methodology fashion.
I like the fact that curriculum development must be geared toward learners in term of their ability to learn. Thus, these examples listed.
1. Knowledgeable learners – these learners acquire a substantial and organized body of knowledge which they can use fluently to make sense of the world, solve problems, and make decisions.
2. Self-determined learners feel capable and continually strive to acquire and use the tools they need to learn.
3. Strategic learners have a repertoire of thinking and learning strategies that they use with skill and purpose to think about and control their own learning and guide their learning of new content.
4. Empathetic learners are able to view themselves and the world from perspectives other than their own, including perspectives of people from different cultural backgrounds.
I like the fact too, that thinking curriculum should have a dual agenda with the power to promote higher-level processes, i.e.
1. The scope of a thinking curriculum promotes in-depth learning.
2. Content and process objectives are situated in real-world.
3. Tasks are sequenced to situate holistic performances in increasingly challenging environments.
4. A thinking curriculum actively connects content and processes to learners’ backgrounds.
I feel that this article is valuable to me because it provides concise and in-depth tools that will help me to develop curriculum that is conducive to the learners’ ability to fully understand and apply the content of the curriculum to learning applications.
Week 2 -Application #1
This information is interesting. I am familiar with learning styles but have never heard of learning ability. I would say that I am a knowledge driven learner but can also empathize with others in the world. Your blog is well organized and has nice presentation of useful information. I look forward to reading your blog again in the future.
ReplyDeleteThank You.