Bernie Dodge - Keynote Speech
Bernie Dodge, PhD – San Diego State University
The temptation is to prepare our children for our present reality, but that will not work because they will live in a reality far differnt than ours.
We have the greatest control of Learning Skills, but often least focused upon.
Why is it so hard to create great lessons that tie these together?
We teach out of a 20th century mindframe. Time factor. Traditional education is very specialized and separate. Reality demands that we see things from multiple views.
QuestGarden Overview: new way to help create great WebQuests. Wanted to help teachers reduce time necessary to create them and boost their usefullness.
Bernie’s Taxonomy
Life verbs: decide design create predict analyze
Classroom verbs: know tell remember
Life verbs need to be embeded in our classroom dialect as much as possible. This will help prepare kids for their century not ours.
The iToo model
- Based on Logic Models
- Designed to remind us of what we know as teachers
- Encourages lean, coherent lessons that engage higher level thinking (slides showing the model)
i nputs – web sites, books, human experts, images, primary source documents, news articles
T hinking – Deisgn, decide, create, analyze, predict / know, tell, remember, apply, explain
o utputs – written docs, dramatic performance, creative products, multimedia, designs, models
o utcomes –
(Bottom row under each aspect of the model)
Reception scaffolds
Transformation scaffolds
Production Scaffolds
What order do we usually start with when planning a lesson? The first thing is inputs.
Samples… example for us to work with…
Link to download materials
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