Cues, Questions, and Advanced Organizers
Using the right cues, questions and organizers can help get students interested and retain information. It seems that most of these concepts all stem from the basic KWL theory. If we begin by talking about what students already know and then merge into learning new information.
In this weeks video Dr. Orey talked about how integrating multiple senses will improve learning. By using advanced organizers you are essentially incorporating students multiple senses. If students create something like a brochure they can use text, pictures, tables, charts, etc. to help inform people.
In addition, it is important as a teacher to know how to cue students and how to ask questions. There are ambiguous questions and there are specific and essential questions. For example, if we are studying slopes it might be more effective to ask students “How are slopes used in the real world?” instead of “What did you learn about slopes?” Hopefully, students learned so much about slope that it would be difficult to know where to begin. In addition, connecting how people use slopes in the real world will help with elaboration and making connections.
Summarizing and Note Taking
One of the key ideas in cognitive learning is being able to make a connection and retain information. By taking an excerpt and making a summarization or taking notes, is something that the students are making their own. I will be different, but hopefully similar, to their classmates. They are looking at the information and considering what is important to them. In addition, they are taking the information presented to them and turning it into their own words. This makes it their own and hopefully will help them to make a connection later on down the road.
Resources:
• Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2009). Bridging learning theory, instruction, and technology. Baltimore: Author.
• Pitler, H., Hubbell, E., Kuhn, M., & Malenoski, K. (2007). Using technology with classroom instruction that works. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.
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Questioning and critical thinking skills have become so important in the 21st century classroom and today's society,that the very popular KWL charts that have been used effectively in the classroom for many years have morphed into complex webs or concept maps. Do you think that there is a place for concept mapping in all grade levels?
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