Imagine your class …
Welcome to Cognitive Construction
Active, engaged students … that’s what we’re all about here at Cognitive Construction. Our aim is to help you develop broad, deep, and flexible knowledge structures with your students through critical cognition. Critical cognition builds knowledge structures on a foundation of rigorous social assessment of facts, suppositions, beliefs, and ideologies presented in the development of meaning.
We believe that learning environments, be they K-12, college, graduate, or professional learning environments, should be active environments within which teachers and learners interact and construct new meaning and knowledge. As we build out our site, we will provide you with:
We’ll be building our site out over the next few weeks. Here’s what we’ll look like when the site is built out:
We believe that learning environments, be they K-12, college, graduate, or professional learning environments, should be active environments within which teachers and learners interact and construct new meaning and knowledge. As we build out our site, we will provide you with:
- strategies to plan and construct active classroom learning
- techniques to enhance teacher-student, student-student, and student-environment learning opportunities
- tools to build constructive learning communities
- contemporary discussion of cognition and learning
- classes to help you gain more skill in building better knowledge structures
We’ll be building our site out over the next few weeks. Here’s what we’ll look like when the site is built out:
Strategies and Techniques
Imagine a more engaged classroom
It’s hard to build constructive classrooms. These strategies and techniques can help you.
Working on it.
Current Events
Keeping up is really hard to do!
You’ll want to check out our blog (news items and Twitter feed, too) because you want to stay current. And because they’re good.
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Resource Room
Looking for something?
Sometimes you just can’t find the right tool or technique … or maybe you forgot its name. You’ll find it here.
Some of it’s here.
The rest is on the way!
Continuing Ed
Join a class … get better!
Need some continuing ed? Or maybe just a new perspective. We’ll have our classes up and running soon!
Some of it’s here.
The rest is on the way!
In the meantime, feel free to explore our temporary set-up as shown below. You can visit our blog, read some of our thoughts on TwitterTM, or catch up on a few interesting news items. And, of course, you can contact us at any time with thoughts or ideas … we always appreciate your feedback.
While We’re Under Construction …
Keeping up is hard to do!
You’ll want to check out our blog because you want to stay current.
What’s going on around here?
Interesting news items about teaching, learning, and cognition.
What are we thinking?
What’s happening … viewed at @280 characters or less.
Our book bin
I like books … teachers like books. I think you’ll like these books about teaching.
Glossary
Not sure what it means? Well, you can look it up right here.