Recently in an IPS team meeting we started discussing what is it exactly we're trying to teach in our course. It's sort of the first PLC question - about what we want our kids to know. Should our students know how many milligrams are in a gram, or just that grams are bigger than milligrams?
How do we transition from Bloom's level 1 questions to actually asking them to synthesize knowledge, to compare and contrast, to make predictions and draw conclusions? But there's still a basic level of knowledge that is needed. I mean, in order to compare and contrast different kinds of volcano's you need to know what the heck a volcano is.
Could writing more in the classroom help with this? Perhaps. What are we going to have the students write about? Will the netbooks become that 'hook' that gets the kids learning?
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