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DLESE as a source of
Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Kim Kastens
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
DLESE Annual Meeting
University of South Florida
July 10, 2005
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Pedagogical
Content
Knowledge
PCK: knowledge of how to teach effectively in a discipline, as opposed to
knowledge of the discipline itself (Shulman, 1986; Shulman, 1987).
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Pedagogical Content Knowledge includes:
• Common misconceptions/ prior conceptions
• Typical difficulties
• Prerequisite concepts and skills
• Strategies to help different kinds of students
• What models/ analogies/visualizations/activities work
• How to assess
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DLESE as a venue for capturing,
creating and sharing PCK
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DLESE as a venue for capturing,
creating and sharing PCK
Share Fair accelerates teacher
to teacher exchange of PCK
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DLESE as a venue for capturing,
creating and sharing PCK
“On the Cutting Edge” workshops
and associated websites build
communities of practitioners who
exchange PCK.
Share Fair accelerates teacher
to teacher exchange of PCK
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DLESE as a venue for capturing,
creating and sharing PCK
The Community
Review System
aggregates tips and
recommendations
about teaching with
specific resources.
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DLESE as a venue for capturing,
creating and sharing PCK
The Community
Review System
aggregrates tips and
recommendations
about teaching with
specific resources.
BEST PRACTICES FOR THE DLESE REVIEWED COLLECTION
The resource contains pedagogical documentation
* Skills and understandings needed prior to working with the resource
* Age or educational level for which the resource is recommended
* Learning objectives
* Commonly observed mistakes or misconceptions
* Notes on instructional strategies
* Alignment with educational standards
Guidance to
resource creators
on embedding
pedagogical
information into
their resource.
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DLESE as a source of
Pedagogical Content Knowledge:
What more could we do?
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DLESE as a source of
Pedagogical Content Knowledge:
What more could we do?
Idea! An annotation service providing
links to related pedagogical resources!
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DLESE as a source of
Pedagogical Content Knowledge:
What more could we do?
Idea! An annotation service providing
links to related pedagogical resources!
What is an annotation?
In DLESE or NSDL, a piece of information that pertains
to an educational resource, but is not part of the
educational resource itself.
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DLESE as a source of
Pedagogical Content Knowledge:
What more could we do?
Idea! An annotation service providing
links to related pedagogical resources!
Annotations which are pointers to related pedagogical
resources:
• misconceptions commonly encountered while teaching
that ES topic
• skills needed for completing that ES activity
• assessment techniques called for in that ES resource
Mock-up at: http://crs.dlese.org/testbed/pck/
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Misconceptions:
• Click to add text
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Misconceptions:
• Click to add text
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More ideas about DLESE as a source of
Pedagogical Content Knowledge
• great idea here
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More ideas about DLESE as a source of
Pedagogical Content Knowledge
• great idea here