In CEP 810 this week, I was asked to explore what learning is and how experts and novices differ. We were asked to make connections from the ideas stated in Bransford’s “How People Learn” (2004) to our classrooms today. The full essay I wrote takes a closer look at what learning or better yet, understanding is. It discusses the differences between a novice and an expert and how that relates to our practices in a classroom. Education is in the process of a makeover to not only create more engaging environments, but to nurture students that can create, think, design, and apply their knowledge to the world around them.
References:
Watters, A. (2015, April 25). The Invented History of ‘The Factory Model of Education’ Retrieved May 20, 2017, from http://hackeducation.com/2015/04/25/factory-model
Bransford, J. D. (2004). How people learn brain, mind, experience, and school. Washington, DC: National Acad. Press.
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Noel,
I find it interesting that you take a historical perspective on classrooms to start your essay. Perhaps it’s because I’m a history major, but I really enjoyed reading with this background prefacing your insights. Always a good choice!
Your differentiation between experts and novices was interesting to read. I especially like how you made it easy to understand for any reader, both new to education and well versed. I think you said it best when “experts are able to notice things that simply would not appear to a novice.”
Lastly, it was great to read about your students, and how you teach them about steps to even the most mundane of things: pp&j—which sounds so fun and exciting in your classroom. I’m sure your students now see ordinary things as interesting wherever they find themselves.
Great essay! I look forward to reading more.
Cheers,
Kd
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Noelle 🙂 I get it all the time with my last name, which is Dorcy. Lot’s of people like to spell it, Dorsey.
My apologies.
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