How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School
John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking, editors
http://books.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/ch7.html
there is this quote in chapter seven ,
"Expert teachers have a firm understanding of their respective disciplines,
knowledge of the conceptual barriers that students face in learning about the
discipline, and knowledge of effective strategies for working with students. Teachers' knowledge of their disciplines provides a cognitive roadmap to guide
their assignments to students, to gauge student progress, and to support the questions students ask. The teachers focus on understanding rather than
memorization and routine procedures to follow, and they engage students in activities that help students reflect on their own learning and understanding. "
Is this all that is needed to be effective in teaching with the new technologies?
Effectiveness is certainly in the forefront today with all of the assessment hoopla and George Dubya's insistence on testing and
vouchers. Can the new technologies provide more effectiveness to the process no matter what the level
of preparation for the teacher? Or, as the above quote seems to suggest, have we remained at the same point of understanding about teaching that has been
available during the last fifty years?
Please read the entire chapter which contained this quote at this url:
http://books.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/ch7.html
After you have read the chapter and examined the examples of effective teaching provided in
the chapter, try to answer my questions.
1. Can the new technologies provide more effectiveness to the process no matter what the level of preparation of the teacher?
2. Have we remained at the same point of understanding about teaching that has been available during the last fifty years?
3. Is this all that is needed to be effective in teaching with the new technologies?
Taken from Walden University's course EDUC 6400--Dr. Spillers 9/4/02