Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Week 9 - Dimensions 3 - Extending and Refining Learning

This is your opportunity to teach fellow Fellows about one of the Dimensions 3 strategies. You have been given an article about one of the 8 Dimensions 3 strategies. Please read the article and also take a look at the same Dimensions 3 strategy on the following website: http://www.aea267.k12.ia.us/cia/framework/thinking/
(When you go to this site, click on COMPLEX THINKING SKILLS AND REASONING. Scroll down near the bottom of Thinking Skills and find the Dimensions of Learning thinking skills you have been assigned). Then, do the following:
1. What steps (steps in knowing the process) would students need to know in order to use this strategy? List the steps.
2. How would you teach the students how to use this process? (for instance, today, I showed you the process of comparing 2 things by having you compare fun/enjoyment and also had you compare 2 different types of candies).
3. How could you apply this strategy to science or mathematics? (for instance, I might have students compare the structure of RNA and DNA in biology OR in math, I might have students compare finding the Least Common Multiple (LCM) by generating a table of multiples, and by writing out and using the prime factorization).

Respond to ONE colleague.