Well, we did it! I apologize for the timing being off today and am grateful you could stay around to hear each of us out with our posters. They represented a good deal of thought, integration, and plain old work. I’ve put some on the website. I’ll get pieces of all of them up and […]
Contact Information
Charlie 656-3356 charles.rathbone@uvm.edu
The context of Dottie’s Story
Dottie’s Story is a chapter in the book I wrote during my sabbatical. The book is a collection of my stories about what I’ve learned across the year of my life about race and me and systemic racism in this country. I try to make the point through examples in my own life that seeing […]
Scaffolding (in a Vygotskian sense)
Here’s a useful reference to scaffolding. Moll describes scaffolding as “the gradual withdrawal of adult control and support as a function of children’s increasing mastery of a given task.”
Wednesday July 6, ’05 — Information Processing
I suspect the brief foray into information processing might have seemed like a random event but I really wanted to make sure that the idea of “planning” as we talked about it on Tuesday got picked up and attached to the idea of metacognition. In my mind, the only way to do this is to […]
Information Processing Paper
Useful information on how we process information.
Expectancy Value Theory
Places EV Theory in the larger context of psychological research.
Assumptions: Class Discussion
1. all students can learn 2. teachers know their impact on students 3. educators are aware of the importance of their self-awareness 4. play in school starts to diminish as students get older… 5. choice is something that parents, students, and teachers have to make cooperatively 6. the learning environment should be natural 7. change […]