Friday, October 24, 2002 Volen 101, 12:00-1.00 pm
Abstract:
Promoting and measuring transferable learning in classrooms is notoriously difficult. We argue that promoting case-based reasoning in the classroom inherently promotes transferable learning, and we use evidence of case-based reasoning to identify students' ability to transfer what they've learned to new situations.
My goal, in this talk, is to show how, by using recommendations from case-based reasoning about promoting learning, we designed a classroom environment full of affordances for promoting transfer. We explain case-based reasonings recommendations about promoting learning in the classroom, then explain Learning by Design, the approach to learning science in middle school that we have designed based on those recommendations, and then discuss the transfer results we've measured.
Host: Rick Alterman and Jordan Pollack