Lesson 1

INTRODUCTION: Greetings, photos for database, course outline, grades, project.

ACTIVITIES:

1. Analysis of video tape segment: A tower in the making
   • View video showing the three boys, twice.
   • In small groups, interpret just what has happened. How many different "things" has the class come up with? What competencies do the children bring to the task? Where and when do they learn this?
   • Pick any one sentence/ utterance and say just what was being said so that it is self-explanatory.
   • For your further interest: An article containing the perspective 9 educators have taken on the same segment can be found at this website: [http://unr.edu/homepage/jcannon/ejse/kamen_etal.html]
   • An article that contained my complete analysis:
     Roth, W.-M. (1995). From 'wiggly structures' to 'unshaky towers': Problem framing, solution finding, and negotiation of courses of actions during a civil engineering unit for elementary students. Research in Science Education, 25, 365-381.
2. Analysis of video tape segment: Kitchen work
   • What and how does the cook know?
   • Explicit versus implicit knowledge?
   • Where and how can this knowledge be learned?
   • How are space and time used?
   • How are the activities ordered in time? space?
   • How is efficiency achieved?
   • How does the activity unfold?
   • How can we make sense of the actions in the larger cycle of activities?
   • Are there some things that we are likely not to see if THIS cook was to work somewhere else?
3. Brainstorming about interesting situations that students might want to know more about in terms of the course objectives of applied cognitive science.