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Wiggins Ubd
Wiggins Ubd
Transfer as essential
Going beyond information given... Result is not capacity to plug in, but to go beyond... Understanding: Knowledge + Skill + Mindfulness Big Ideas are prompt for transfer, asking us to inquire not to solve. Transfer is not an extra for its absence is uneconomical Shooting ourselves in the foot by focusing on coverage
Hard to generalize - Little intellectual reward - Easily lost Pathologies of mislearning - Is my teaching obvious??
Goals...
Engagement...while know that engagement is not guarantee of learning. Goals are personal, communal, district, standard-based, etc Problem of multiplicity Never teach something you dont think is worth knowing While being open minded about purpose of education... Far / Near & Minimal Transfer - p. 79 Big Ideas as Umbrella: Not vast or all encompassing Not Basic nor obvious Might be counter-intuitive