{"id":2286,"date":"2012-06-15T08:18:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T14:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:50:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:50:43","slug":"effective-teaching-should-create-students-who-think-like-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/06\/15\/effective-teaching-should-create-students-who-think-like-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Effective Teaching Should Create Students Who Think Like Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>I was alerted to this article by Mark Guzdial&#8217;s blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/computinged.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/15\/carl-wieman-on-effective-teaching\/\">Carl Wieman on Effective Teaching \u00ab Computing Education Blog<\/a>. (Mark&#8217;s blog almost always has something I find interesting &#8211; thanks Mark!)<\/p>\n<p>There are a few things that really jumped out for me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The goal should be to have \u201call students think about and use science, mathematics, and engineering more like scientists do,\u201d Wieman said. \u201cThe most valuable metric\u201d for evaluating effective teaching should be creating patterns of scientific thinking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Expertise, Wienman says, is characterized by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Extensive factual knowledge of the subject area.<\/strong> Gee, I guess that means that simply being able to Google something ISN&#8217;T enough. You&#8217;ll get no argument from me here. Of course, which facts we need to keep in our heads and which ones we can safely leave &#8220;out there&#8221; to look up is an open &#8211; and probably ever-changing &#8211; question.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A mental framework for organizing that knowledge so that it can be effectively retrieved and applied to solve problems.<\/strong> Yup again.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The ability to monitor one\u2019s own thinking and learning in the areas of expertise,\u201d he said. It includes \u201cself-checking or sense-making, of examining one\u2019s thinking and coming up with ways to check if their answers make sense.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I found this bit on memory particularly significant:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new item is anything that is not in the learner\u2019s long-term memory, he continued. \u201cAnything you can do to reduce unnecessary demands on working memory will improve learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among them is elimination of unnecessary jargon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The thought that immediately jumped into my head is how fond Educationists are of creating new jargon. THIS deserves it&#8217;s own post so as not to get buried in talk about science.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaas.org\/news\/releases\/2012\/0608noyce_wieman.shtml\">AAAS &#8211; AAAS News Release &#8211; &#8220;Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman: Effective Teaching Should Create Students Who Think Like Scientists&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-2286'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(2286);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(2286);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(2286);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>I was alerted to this article by Mark Guzdial&#8217;s blog: Carl Wieman on Effective Teaching \u00ab Computing Education Blog. (Mark&#8217;s blog almost always has something I find interesting &#8211; thanks Mark!) There are a few things that really jumped out &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/06\/15\/effective-teaching-should-create-students-who-think-like-scientists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,14,24],"tags":[41,80,122,393],"class_list":["post-2286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-general","category-teaching-learning","tag-education","tag-science","tag-stem","tag-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-AS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2292,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/06\/15\/effective-teaching-should-avoid-jargon\/","url_meta":{"origin":2286,"position":0},"title":"Effective Teaching Should AVOID Jargon","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"June 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"As promised, here is PART TWO: \u201cMemory is not talked about much in education, but it is critically important,\u201d Wieman said, and the limited discussion that does occur focuses primarily on long-term memory while short-term working memory is ignored. He compared the latter to a personal computer with limited RAM.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Educational Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Educational Technology","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/educational-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3653,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/07\/24\/interaction-between-stereotypes-expectations-of-success-and-learning-from-failure-computing-education-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":2286,"position":1},"title":"Interaction between stereotypes, expectations of success, and learning from failure | Computing Education Blog","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"July 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Interaction between stereotypes, expectations of success, and learning from failure | Computing Education Blog. This is encouraging! The students who learned about scientists\u2019 struggles developed less-stereotyped images of scientists, became more interested in science, remembered the material better, and did better at complex open-ended problem-solving tasks related to the lesson\u2014while\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Educational Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Educational Technology","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/educational-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1482,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/12\/07\/computational-science-needs-cs-education-but-does-it-need-cs\/","url_meta":{"origin":2286,"position":2},"title":"Computational Science needs CS Education: But Does It Need CS?","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"December 7, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Computer Science is dead (or should be). I love reading Mark Guzdial's blog. 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