Concept Attainment Lesson

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Concept Attainment Lesson

• 6th Grade Technology
• iMET6 2003
• Glee Mellor, Eve Benson, Debbie Clingingsmith,
  and Allen Boxall

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This lesson is based onThe Socratic method
Teaching by asking instead of by telling.

• Lesson Objective
• Students will be able to discern the
  appropriateness of a website for the purpose of
  educational research.

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From the items shown, one is an example, and the
other a non- example. Your job is to figure out
what makes one example a good example and what
makes the other a non-example.

• Exemplars
• Positive www.gsusa.org
• Negative computer

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Look at these two items. The one on your left is
an example of the attribute for our lesson today.
The non-example is not.

• Example
  Non example
• www.congress.org www.congress

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• Now look at these two pairs www.congress.org
  has attributes that www.congress does not.

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• For right now
• I want you to work
• alone and think about what these attributes
  could mean. With this next pair, I would like you
  to write down what you think the attributes of
  the examples might be. This will be your
  hypothesis.
• Positive Negative
• www.loc.gov www.whitehouse
  

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What about these? What makes them positive
examples and negative examples?
www.whitehouse.gov
www.amazon.com www.directcon
www.ebay.com www.csus.edu
www.weatherchannel.xyz
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Where would you put this example, in the positive
or the negative side? www.nasa.gov
And how about this example ? www.ucd
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What are the attributes of the positive and
negative examples?
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Why are these endings critical to this technology
class?
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Where we got our Information?

• Garlikov, Richard (not available). The Socratic
  method Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling.
  Retrieved September 8, 2003 from the World Wide
  Web http//www.garlikov.com/Soc_Meth.html
• Weil, M., Joyce, B. (1978). Information
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• Lasley II, T., Matczynski, T., Rowley, J.
  (2002). Instructional Models Strategies For
  Teaching In A Diverse Society. Belmont, CA
  Wadsworth/Thompson Learning.
• Pritchard, Florence Fay (1994). Teaching
  Thinking across the Curriculum with the Concept
  Attainment Model. Not available Eric_No ED379303
• Louisell, Robert. Descamps, Jorge. (1992).
  Developing a Teaching Style Methods for
  Elementary School Teachers. New York, NY
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