Tag: knowing
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Understanding vs knowing
Final exams vs. projects – nope, false dichotomy: a practical start to the blog year (by Grant Wiggins) Students who know can: Recall facts Repeat what they’ve been told Perform skills as practiced Plug in missing information Recognize or identify something that they’ve been shown before Whereas students who understand can: Justify a claim Connect…
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Making mistakes can be a Good Thing
One of the changes we made in our curriculum this year has been to work on creating spaces where students are willing to “have a go” at figuring out a clinical problem that we give them. We realised that students were reluctant to try because they were worried about failing the challenge. They didn’t want…