This morning I have been up since 5:30 am in my student dorm at Mohawk College. This paper is always on my mind and I am enjoying the readings. Today in Savery and Duffy they write about problem based learning and learner goals. I can see one of the problems I face with my students - they are not familiar with this type of learning and I need to scaffold some tasks to assist them in this enquiry thinking process.
Learning goals The design of this environment is meant to simulate, and hence engage the learner in, the problem solving behavior that it is hoped a practicing physician would be engaged in. Nothing is simplified or pre specified for the learner. The facilitator assumes a major role in modeling the metacognitive thinking associated with the problem solving process. Hence this is a cognitive apprenticeship environment with scaffolding designed to support the learner in developing the metacognitive skills.
Within the context of this cognitive apprenticeship environment there are goals related to self directed learning, content knowledge, and problem solving. To be successful, students must develop the self-directed learning skills needed in the medical f ield. They must be able to develop strategies for identifying learning issues and locating, evaluating, and learning from resources relevant to that issue. The entire problem solving process is designed to aid the students in developing the hypothetico-deductive problem solving model, which centers around hypothesis generation and evaluation. Finally, there are specific content learning objectives associated with each problem. Since the students have responsibility for the problem, there is no guarantee t hat all of the content area objectives will be realized in a given problem. However, any given content objective occurs in several problems and hence if it does not arise in one, it will almost certainly arise in one of the other problems.
There were a flurry of emails again yesterday and today. Theresa has done an amazing job putting together a voicethread with the transcript of our debrief last Friday. I would like to edit it but don't have privileges. Theresa wrote to Stacey - Stacey wrote to me! I still can't edit it but it's amazing the collaboration that goes on. Theresa and Stacey are facing a strike next week. Theresa sent another draft of Assignment 2 which I shall edit as agreed.
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Savery, J.R. &Duffy, T.M. (1996). Problem based learning: An instructional model and its constructivist framework. In Constructivist Learning Environments: Case Studies In Instructional Design (B. Wilson, Ed.). Educational Technology Publications Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
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