Transdisciplinary Skills and Dispositions

September 2012

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

HKA Transdisciplinary Skills and Dispositions

Knowledgeable and Skilled Learners Creative and Critical Thinkers Reective Problem Solvers Effective and Precise Communicators Responsible Members of the Community

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

When to use the Transdisciplinary Skills:

Knowledgable & Skilled Learners - use when you want to
set a goal, develop/seek personal growth or improvement

Creative & Critical Thinkers - use to deepen understanding Reective Problem Solvers - use to answer a question,
identify solution

Effective & Precise Communicators - use to project

yourself, share ideas with others want to take action these

Responsible Members of the Community - use when you Remember, disposition is the students inclination to use

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

book study: John Hattie - visible learning for teachers

Knowledgeable and Skilled Learners

What is my purpose? What do I know right now? The Learning Cycle

Where to next?

Was I successful? How will I achieve my goal?

What is my goal?

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Alvins story... How I learned to hold my breath underwater.

Knowledgeable and Skilled Learners

What is my purpose? To be able to hold my breath under waterat a swimmingpool.
The Learning hold breath underwaterCycle

Was I successful?
Work in progress.
It was a bit scary at rst, because I had never had my whole body underwater. Anyways I was succesful. I was afraid because I didnt want to accidently drink the water and didnt want the water to go in my eyes, because it hurts, when water gets in my eyes. So I decided to buy some gogles,a nd practicholding my
breath in my

Where to next?
1. Make sure gogles are tight and make sure I hold my breath when I go underwater
2.Hold my breath as long as possible. When running out of air go back up, and take a breath.
3. Learning not to be scared whe holding my
breath underwater.

What do I know right now?

I know how to hold my breath underwater
I once held my breath for two and a half minutes.

bathtub

What is my goal?
To be capable, condent when I hold my breath.

How will I achieve my goal?

The goal is achieved, but I still think of it as misson complete.
1. hold breath in bathtub for at least 2-3 mins. 2. Check gogles. 3. hold my breath underwater. 4.then come up when I cant handle it.

To enjoy the experience of being underwater

Main goal: Hold breath underwater

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

book study: Ron Ritchhard making thinking visible

Creative and Critical Thinkers

How can I observe and describe whats there? What explanations and interpretations can I build?

How can I uncover complexity and go below the surface of things?

What do I wonder and what questions can I ask?

How has this captured my the heart and helped me form conclusions?

The Thinking Cycle

How can I reason with evidence?

How can I consider different viewpoints and perspectives?

What connections can I make?

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Why so much waste at lunch?

Creative and Critical Thinkers

How can I observe and describe whats there? 1 What explanations and interpretations can I build? 2

How can I uncover complexity and go below the surface of things? 8

What do I wonder and what questions can I ask? 7

The Thinking-About-WhyTheres-So-Much-Waste-AtLunch Cycle How can I consider different viewpoints and perspectives? 5

How can I reason with evidence? 3 What connections can I make? 4

How has this captured my the heart and helped me form conclusions? 6
Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Why so much waste at lunch?

Creative and Critical Thinkers

How can I observe and describe whats there? See with your eyes the trash after lunch. In the lunch room 95% of the people order lunch.Which means there is going to be a lot of waste/trash.

What explanations and interpretations can I build?

How can I uncover complexity and go below the surface of things? I could interview the janitors and the people that take out at school.

What do I wonder and what questions can I ask? Could we replace the plastic containers with re-useable plates and utensils? Can we feed animals or compost the leftover food for the garden on he rst oor? Only bring food that you are going to eat.

The Thinking-About-WhyTheres-So-Much-Waste-AtLunch Cycle

How can I consider different viewpoints and perspectives? You dont have to wash out re-useable containers (wastes water). Who cares about the plastic, someone else can deal with it. The cost of using re-useable containers is too high.

A lot of people order food at the Tuk Shop,for lunch but cant nish it all. Because they wanty to play games and chat with their freinds more. People arent bringing their own lunch in their own containers.The Tuk shop uses a lot of plastic (plastic containers,forks,spoons and knives). None of this can be reused.

How can I reason with evidence? Take pictures. Interview people that care about the enviroment and people that dont care about the enviroment, and see what they think about this problem. Stand by Tuk Shop and collect evidence about Tuk Shop customers.By interviewing the person in the tukshop.

How has this captured my the heart and helped me form conclusions? People dont care about the environment. The Tuk Shop is trying to benet from using plastic,because its cheaper .But it destroys the enviroment People decide not to eat their food for some reason.Maybe the food tastes bad.

What connections can I make? Its easy to throw away plastic.Because you dont have to clean it. Plastic costs less than re-useable utensils and containers. People throw away food because they dont like it, because they have something else to do,like playing games on the computer, going to the basketball court.Or they cant eat it all, etc.

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Reective Problem Solvers

What is the question or problem about?

Does my answer make sense?

What do I need to nd out?

The Problem Solving Cycle How will I logically present my answer? What strategy will I use? What information do I need?

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Reective Problem Solvers

How to cook two turkeys for Thanksgiving?
How can I tye my shoe laces in1 minute ,
Does my answer make sense?

Think what is the rst step to tye your shoe laces.

The Two Turkey Problem

Put on my shoe Then tie a cross with the string The tie a hoop pull then do the same with the other shoe and I am done

I use to stick my shoe laces in my shoe,now I can tye my shoe laces.

I need to know what is the rst step of tying your shoe lace. Then continue with the other steps.

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Effective and Precise Communicators

Have I reached my audience and achieved my purpose? What is my purpose and message and who is my audience? What genre and organisational structure will I use?

How are my register and voice appropriate for the task?

The Communication Cycle How have I incorporated evidence to support my ideas? How is my vocabulary/word choice relevant to the task?

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Effective and Precise Communicators

How can I best tell the story of my experience with a small blade?
The purpose of my story is to get the message out that you should always consider taking good advice when it is given to you. I will use a narrative format, to tell my audience of my advice that I was given,but did not use. Lets nd out how effective I was after I have told the story.

I will have to use my best story telling techniques to make this effective. Volume and periods of silence will be key.

The Communication Cycle, or -- Why you should always listen to good advice. The evidence I have to prove why I should have listened to good advice when it was given is on my hand.

Vocabulary and word choice are an important part of my story. I want to use words that get a reaction from my audience, but I dont want to scare them them too much. Some vocabulary to use:unpationt,in a hurry, terror, blood,small blade and a plaster.

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

book study: Cathy Burger Kaye - the complete guide to ser vice learning

Responsible Members of the Community

What needs to be done? How will I share this learning with others? The Service Learning Cycle What did I learn? What did I achieve? How will I go about doing it? What will I do?

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Responsible Members of the Community:

How I started a Community Garden
Try and stop shark nning,or else sharks might become extinct Do research and start a petition,to stop shark ning.

By telling people not to shark n,and not to drink shark n soup.

The Service Balling and Gardening Learning Cycle

I learnt that H.K. is the capitol of trading shark ns.

Me and my group got at least over 30 people to sign our petiton.

By getting people,to sign a petition to stop shark ning in hong kong.

Tuesday, 19 February 2013