Towards a bimodal curriculum:Towards a bimodal curriculum:

changing the paradigm in the classrooms

Pere Marquès (2011). UAB – DIM group

http://peremarques.blogspot.com/

See too: la praxis del currículum bimodal

New culture demands new curriculum Tools always available for the "i-Person"

What is the "auxiliary memory"? The development of the bimodal curriculummemorizing activities and practical activities

Beyond memorizing: Bloom and skills

NEW GOALSGOALS

content, skills, IT

NEW IT TOOLSIT TOOLS

IWB, clasroom 2.0, VLE, Internet

NEW

EVALUATIONEVALUATIONwith memory and with information support

CHANGES

ORGANIZATION INFRASTRUCTURES

NEW

METHODOLOGIESMETHODOLOGIESactivities, roles

lifelong and autonomous learningschool, home / family, environment

Pere Marquès (2010)

CULTURECULTURE::ideas, visions of the world ... norms, values ... communication instruments

to live togetherto live together

to beto be

to doto doto knowto know

domesticsphere

school / worksphere

broad social sphere

EDUCATIONEDUCATIONACTIONACTION

AIMS OF EDUCATION (yesterday)AIMS OF EDUCATION (yesterday)

1. CULTURAL CONTEXT1. CULTURAL CONTEXT

physical

emotional - willpower

intelligence

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2. ME2. ME

TO COMUNICATE

TO ACT

TO KNOWsocialartisticvocabulary

understand

live together

to solve problems

critical

cheerful, optimistic, persistent

moral - spiritual

DEVELOPMENT

languaje

TTOOOOLLSS

creative

π²

GOALS OF EDUCATION (today)GOALS OF EDUCATION (today)

1. CULTURAL CONTEXT1. CULTURAL CONTEXT

physical

emotional - willpower

intelligence

Pere Marquès (2011)

2. ME2. ME

TO COMUNICATE

TO ACT

TO KNOWsocialartisticvocabulary

understand

live together

to solve problemscritical

cheerful, optimistic, persistent

moral - spiritual

DEVELOPMENT

languaje

TTOOOOLLSS

creative

π²

with IT & information

BRAINMEMORY

always at my disposal

AUXILIARY MEMORYmy blog or PLE in Internet

always at my disposal

INTERNET: INFORMATION

INTERNET: COMUNICATION

ALWAYS ACCESSIBLE TOOLSALWAYS ACCESSIBLE TOOLS

Pere Marquès (2011)

Have we evolved to the "i-Person" always connected to the Internet?

networks

www

o Notes, documents, photographs and other multimedia resources.

o Links (websites, blogs, videos ...) and contacts (e-mail, networks ...)

o Internet Tools

• It is like a library-calendar-workshop that we fill (such as memory) with data and tools for processing information. And when we need it (as we always have internet access) we go there to find the information or to work with our tools.

• Students should begin to build it at school, little by little. Small students may start with a notebook or folder where they can collect clippings of interest. Later they begin to create their first digital personal environment on the Internet.

WHAT IS THE AUXILIARY MEMORY?WHAT IS THE AUXILIARY MEMORY?

Pere Marquès (2011)

It is a concept close to the so-called "personal learning environments" (PLE) but the auxiliary memory is an environment that will be useful in many circumstances throughout life (not only in

learning activities): studies, work, leisure, arrangements..

The auxiliary memory (enhanced memory or personal on-line memory) is a personal environment in cyberspace (it can be a website, a blog, a wiki ...) where each of us store in an orderly manner resources we think can be helpful:

We need vocabulary

To understand what we readTo think

To express us

So… we must memorize vocabulary

Pere Marquès (2011)

But we always can use our “auxiliary memory”

To do things To solve problems

So… we do NOT need to memorize formulas, complex procedures ...

Pere Marquès (2011)

BIMODAL CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENTBIMODAL CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

VOCABULARY/ ESSENTIAL INFORMATION concepts,

people, facts… PRACTICAL BASIC ACTIVITIES

•individual / group•applicative / heuristic

I must understand and remember

•always supported by auxiliary memory, Internet•I DO NOT need to memorize data and procedures

+ VOCABULARY / DESIRABLE DATA

+ ADVANCED PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES

MEMORIZINGMEMORIZING knowing how TO DOknowing how TO DO things in a limited time

TUTORING•development

•emotions•talents•social

•to remember experiences

•to have criteria

Pere Marquès (2011)

Learning vocabulary is to recognize the words in texts and lectures, to use them properly to think and express (oral, written) and also to know to explain / define.Pere Marquès (2010)

BIMODAL CURRICUM DEVELOPMENT (II)BIMODAL CURRICUM DEVELOPMENT (II) TUTORING•development

•emotions•talents•social

At the start of the course the teacher gives students 2 lists:

•1.- Essential vocabulary to be learned(+ optionally another vocabulary that would be desirable to know)

•2.- Practical basic activities to be done with the suport of AUXILIARY MEMORY, books, the Internet… (+ optionally other advanced practice activities)

Every day the students will do vocabulary activities related to the subject, addressed to understand and memorize:

• Explanations of the teacher and students• Self-correcting test, Internet searches, student blog, glossary ...• Vocabulary EXAMS wil be short and memory-based

They will also do practical activities with the suport of the AUXILIARY

MEMORY, books, Internet:• Problems, exercises ...• Practical EXAMS

BEYOND STORING KNOWLEDGE...BEYOND STORING KNOWLEDGE...In learning activities, students must:

• REMEMBER, recognize, locate… • UNDERSTAND, conceptualize, illustrate, relate, interpret…• ANALIZE, compare, classify, organize…• SINTETIZE, describe, summarize, integrate, assemble…• APPLY, experience, solve problem (hypothesis, deduction, induction),

calculate…• ASSESS (with criteria), judge critically, select, discuss, evaluate themselves• CREATE, innovate, imagine, predict, transfer…• PLAN, organize projects, set goals…Other instrumental skills are also involved:• To search / select / organize information on the Internet… • To express / comunicate: oral, written, multimedia communication• Others: languages, IT tools usage…Personal skills: independent work, reflection, persistence, self-control ...And social skills: collaborative work

Scheme based on the taxonomy of cognitive activities(Bloom/Anderson)Pere Marquès (2010)

this is the only activity that requires memorization, the

others require thinking

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• Hacia un desarrollo curricular bimodal

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