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Pursing Meaningful Learning
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Pursuing Meaningful Learning
Placed Based Learning
CUNY CUE CONFERENCE MAY 2, 2014
CAREFUL OBSERVATION
Jason A. Montgomery, NCARB LEED AP
outline:
1. assessment of student learning process
1a. time: pressure to be efficient
1b. focus: real life responsibilities + urban distrations impact ability to focus
1c. classroom: interactive or passive?
2. rote learning versus meaningful learning (theory)
3. rote learning versus meaningful learning (practice)
4. how can a place based case study facilitate meaningful learning?
didactic experiences - some physical settings "speak" to the observer - through the drama of the design, the poetic power, the spiritual presence
working backward from final assembly to "kit of parts"
Site
Assistant Professor
Department of Architectural Technology
NYC College of Technology
PAYING ATTENTION (CAREFUL OBSERVATION)
Student Goals:
Performance Goal
Work-Avoidance Goal
Learning Goal
Our Competition...
1. Careful observation:
1a. Brooklyn Historical: understanding the whole
1b. Yale Center for British Art: subtleties of structure
1c. 2-d and 3-d: representation and translation
2. Didactic Places:
2a. Yale Museums
3. Serving the Community:
3a. Red Hook Winery
MEANINGFUL LEARNING
ROTE LEARNING:
ENGAGED
ACTIVE
EXPERIENTIAL
MOTIVATED
CONTEXTUAL
DISENGAGED
MECHANICAL
INFORMATION ACQUISITION
EFFICIENT
USUALLY STRIPPED OF CONTEXT
Bloom's Taxonomy and Place Based Learning
CREATE
AUTHENTIC PROJECTS
assemble, construct, rearrange, transform
Motivation
Theory Overlaid
EVALUATE
appraise, assess, critique, weigh
ANALYZE
APPLY
demonstrate, construct
diagrams, show how it
goes together
breakdown, pull apart,
compare / contrast
UNDERSTAND
DIDACTIC
REMEMBER
dimensions, bays, floors
classify, differentiate (relationship of parts to whole)
depiction of spatial sequence
breakdown, pull apart,
compare / contrast
Case Studies:
PRIMARY SOURCES