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Äntligen är vi här – på plats i Kuala Lumpur för att delge över ettusen andra konferensdeltagare våra erfarenheter av att arbeta med olika verktyg för lärande. Men detta ska inte ske förrän senare i veckan. Idag – lördag, ska vi försöka kalibrera våra kroppar och hjärnor med den malaysiska tiden.
Vi börjar med att äta en frukost a la storlek grand. Intressant att se hur olika våra tallrikar var uppbyggda. Ni som känner oss får gissa. Först rätt svar får våra applåder (skriv i gästboken)
Tallrik 1: vita bönor i tomatsås, en vit korv och lite, lite sallad, bröd och jordgubbssmör
Tallrik 2: kycklinggryta, sallad, korv, olika mystiska skinkor, nötbröd, oxbacon x2, obs ALLT x2+lite till
Tallrik 3: indisk curry med linser, sallad, en croissant och fruktsallad… tyvärr fanns ingen gurkjuice!
Tallrik 4: omelett, french toast, en liten bit bagel, nötbröd med stark ost, fruktsallad toppad med jordnötssmör..
Tallrik 5: omelett med allt, bagel med jordnötssmör, frukt, två baconskivor
Tallrik 6: bagel med ost, skuren frukt, grönt te, indiskt bröd med currygryta, french toast med lönnsirap (gratis är gott)
Allt detta inmundigades samtidigt som skattattackerna avlösde varandra, i takt med att
tröttheten tilltog.
Dagen i övrigt ägnades år att röra på möra ryggar, lita rekognisering inför konferensen: snabbaste vägen till KLCC, shopping och MAT!
Vi har testat en hel del Habits of Mind under dagen: ”Behärska impulsivitet”, ”Respondera med förtjusning och förundran”, sett brister på att ”kommunicera med klarhet och precision”. Vår middagsbeställning var en fars med två servitriser som skulle upprepa allt vi sade men inte kunde ge svar på en enda fråga om vad rätterma innehöll.
Imorgon återkommer vi med mer substantiell information. Ni får ursäkta jetlagen.
Young Adult Minds
- How to Nurture Thinking for a Better Future
In this workshop you will experience how Thinking Based Learning (TBL) and Problem Based Learning (PBL) enrich each other. Come and participate in a modified PBL session by exposing yourself to the first pre-constructed problem that our 16-year-old students experience on the Natural Science and Humanities program in Sweden. See how learning becomes deeper and therefore more meaningful when the questions that you pose can be studied in subject-integrated form. See how complex thinking skills are assisted with the aid of graphic organizers to make your thinking explicit and well-thought through. Reflect, evaluate and use metacognition as your actions and thinking are consolidated. Recognise your intentions as you apply Habits of Mind for even more success. Utilise what you’ve done and what you’ve learned with us, by putting your thinking into action. Take up the challenge with us, then, nurture your students’ thinking for a better future. Find the problem in Problem Based Learning. Find the thinking in Thinking Based Learning.
Mattias Davidsson PhD & Pelle Homen MSc., MA (Action Learning), et al.
These seven teachers are award winners for their pedagogic work of infusing Thinking Based Learning into their teaching method of Problem Based Learning to cultivate a skilful thinking school. Also included is History Teacher of the Year, 2008.
Time: Thursday 10.40
Place: 14th International Conference on Thinking, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Room: MR304
At the 14th International Conference on Thinking Pelle Holmén will give a talk on his peer-reviewed paper entitled:
Improvement of problem based learning with the aid of thinking skills in a cross-curricula teaching (Peer-Reviewed)
Per Erik Holmen, Folkuniversitetet Foundation, Sweden, pelleholmen@gmail.com
The paper describes part of a development program that was aimed at improving the quality of knowledge development and learning among students and student-active teaching in a Natural Science and Humanities program. A team of seven teachers and 44 students, aged 16-19, took part in the development program which was documented in an Action Research Study, and this became the thesis for a Degree in Master in Action Learning from the University of Tromsoe, Norway. Problem Based Learning (PBL) is the main method of teaching in this Swedish school. Many study subjects are integrated into themes, which usually consist of 2-3 problems. Lessons and activities are designed around students‘ learning goals which are constructed during steps 1-5. Step 6 is the learning process of each student, and step 7 is where a deeper learning discussion about the problem takes place. The Action Research Study focuses on the implementation of the Complex Thinking Tasks from Thinking-Based Learning (TBL) into newly-designed PBL problems within a theme called The Mindful Human. Tasks such as skilful decision making and judging the factual accuracy of information were integrated into two of the problems. The paper concludes that the quality of students’ learning and knowledge improved substantially. Student interest levels and personal engagement in learning were cultivated, and the outcomes have been so successful that all future PBL-problems at the school will be redesigned in the same manner.
Pelle Holmen has a Master of Science for Upper-Secondary and Adult Education and a Master of Action.
Improvement of problem based learning with the aid of thinking skills in a cross-curricula teaching (Peer-Reviewed)
The paper describes part of a development program that was aimed at improving the quality of knowledge development and learning among students and student-active teaching in a Natural Science and Humanities program. A team of seven teachers and 44 students, aged 16-19, took part in the development program which was documented in an Action Research Study, and this became the thesis for a Degree in Master in Action Learning from the University of Tromsoe, Norway. Problem Based Learning (PBL) is the main method of teaching in this Swedish school. Many study subjects are integrated into themes, which usually consist of 2-3 problems. Lessons and activities are designed around students‘ learning goals which are constructed during steps 1-5. Step 6 is the learning process of each student, and step 7 is where a deeper learning discussion about the problem takes place. The Action Research Study focuses on the implementation of the Complex Thinking Tasks from Thinking-Based Learning (TBL) into newly-designed PBL problems within a theme called The Mindful Human. Tasks such as skilful decision making and judging the factual accuracy of information were integrated into two of the problems. The paper concludes that the quality of students’ learning and knowledge improved substantially. Student interest levels and personal engagement in learning were cultivated, and the outcomes have been so successful that all future PBL-problems at the school will be redesigned in the same manner.
Pelle Holmen has a Master of Science for Upper-Secondary and Adult Education and a Master of Action.
The talk will be given on monday at 16.35 in room MR402. You find the full schedule for the conference here.
Here you can read the article in Helsingborgs Dagblad about our participation in the 14Th International Conference on Thinking.
We are up and running and the preparations are vigorous! To put thinking into action is the keyword for today. Susan is struggeling with our misspelling and pushes us to think and communicate with clarity and precision. Marie sneaks in small comments and corrections, of course, always striving for accuracy. Pelle is constantly trying to get the rest of us on board by questioning and posing problems. Malin is the glue, gathering data through all senses, and I, Petra – I´m all over the place, running up and down the corridoor.
We can hardly believe this is for real – we´re leaving in two days. Midsummer on an aeroplan – I wonder if Malaysian airlines serves “sill & nypotatis”!?
