DLESE as a source of Pedagogical Content Knowledge

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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.
Guidance to resource creators on embedding
pedagogical information into their resource.
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DLESE as a source of Pedagogical Content
KnowledgeWhat more could we do?
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DLESE as a source of Pedagogical Content
KnowledgeWhat 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
KnowledgeWhat 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
KnowledgeWhat 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

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Misconceptions

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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

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