SPS: sequestered problem solving
DA: Directed application/ students bring their background knowledge directed in
FPL: future preparation learning / this is a method that apprentices are anticipated to have when they are starting to work at a company. they will learn the skills through observing experts exposing themselves to novel environments
schools teach: general, superficial skills that really don't foster students to apply them to real live
outside schools(society) teach: specific, practical skills that are applicable to real live
assessments: instead of having assessment tests to assess their superficial knowledge repetitively assessments should be directed in a way to assess what the students have truly gained and how their perspectives on it has grown.
Negative transfer: some students apply their existing knowledge to what they learn. this might interfere or prejudice them with their learning process of accepting something new
Dan Gilbert: What are the risks for negative transfer in a public unmediated learning space like the Burghers of Calais statues that we looked at? I think it is easy to think of all the lovely positive things that people should gain there, but what are the risks? Thanks for your participation so far.
Sun-Young This question invokes me to recall my first few days at Stanford. I was eager to explore the school so I spent the first week roaming around campus. I was sauntering through the Main Quad when I came across the Burghers of Calais statues. Since museums don’t allow touching the environment that provided direct interaction with the statues was amazing. I remember spending a fair amount of time running my fingers through the facial features and giving firm grips to the statues. I had little or no background information on the story of the Hundred Years War and the impact of it on Rodin’s sculpture. (I hadn’t read the plaque) I had thought of the six statues as separate people portraying different themes: a few in agonies while some were thinking, and one performing soliloquy. It turned out that I had the wrong idea. My past experience of observing art as separately had interfered with the learning process. (Although it was quite a while afterwards, I learned the background story of Burghers of Calais.)