by Kim Nguyen 14 years ago
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Intellectual empathy is essential if we are to make sense of ideas that we might quickly reject because of our own assumptions.
Students need to learn how to open-mindedly embrace ideas, experiences, and text that might seem strange, are difficult to understand.
They need to see how unusual ideas can be rich once they overcome their habitual assumptions.
What do I need to experience a time to understand?
What do they see that I don’t?
How does it seem to you?
How can my thinking and action be modified to meet the demands of this particular situation?
How and where can we apply this knowledge, skill, process?
Refer to the activity where the class had to decide how to attack the castle and shortly afterwards, were tasked to figuring out how to operate on a brain tumor.
develop the ability to critically analyze the various points of views found in text and in discussions.
exposed to alternative theories and diverse points of view regarding the “big ideas.”
What is a novel way to look at this?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the idea?
Is the evidence reasonable?
Is there adequate evidence?
What is assumed or at a tacit level that needs to be made explicit?
From whose point of view?
The immature mind is thus not merely ignorant or unskilled, but unreflective.
the relation between our preferred methods of learning in our understanding (or lack of it).
The wisdom to know one’s ignorance and how one’s patterns of thought and action inform as well as prejudice understanding.
self-knowledge about how we think and why
How do I learn best?
What am I prone to misunderstand because of prejudice, habit, and style?
What are my blind spots?
What are the limits of my understanding?
How does who I am shaped my views?
Subtopic
We are aware of what we do not understand.
Framed by our experiences
Bound by the personal, social, cultural, and historical context in which they arise
What “sense” does it make?
What does it illustrate or illuminate in human experience?
Why does it matter?
What does it mean?
Make it personal or accessible through:
models
analogies
anecdotes
Images
Provide a revealing, historical or personal dimension to ideas and events.
offer apt translations
Tell meaningful stories (narratives)
The story behind it all.
The meanings and patterns we ascribe to all events, data, or experiences transform our understanding and perception of particular facts.
Substantiate
Prove
Verify
Predict
Generalize
Justify
Support
What are the connections?
What are the consequences?
This question forces the student to evaluate the implications.
What are the causes?
This is to show something in relationship to other things.
These are inferences that are tied to specfic evidence which will show logical, insightful connections.
This is a knowledge of "how" and "why" rather than a recall of information.
