Instructional-Learning Episodes That Promote a Dynamic Classroom Experience

Socials Leave me questions/comments at my website, www.benjaminlstewart.org.  Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bnleez Leave comments via Podbean app.  Show Notes Instructional-learning episodes: knowledge-skill; metacognition-cognition; far (new context)-near (similar context) transfer; reproductive (less complex)-productive (more complex) Class Essential question: How does a song communicate with you? (far-near transfer) Brainstorm individually: emotions, people, events, etc. as a list. (knowledge - writing to understand) Convert brainstorming list to Mindmap and take a picture (Cognition, learning strategy, knowledge) Convert Mindmap to first and subsequent drafts Work/Upload information to Google docs Feedback - few students uploaded their paragraphs until the very end Sources: Elshout-Mohr, Hout-Wolters, & Broekkamp, 1999; Volman & Ten Dam, 2011