Chapter 2, Wiggins

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Chapter 2, Wiggins

• Understanding Understanding

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Types of Understanding

• Understanding as meaningful inferences.
• Understanding as transferability.
• Understanding as a noun.
• What evidence do we have that students really
  understand?

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Understanding as Transferability

• In teaching, what do we mean by transferring
  knowledge to understanding?
• The essentials of transfer are
• -- Big Ideas
• -- knowledge and skill application
• Why do teachers confuse teaching with learning.
  (See notes)

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What is the difference between facts and
knowledge?
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Teaching of Understanding

• Understanding by design is more effective but how
  do we make it more efficient?
• Students misunderstanding and what we can do
  about it.

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