User:Dpace

Type of Approach (i.e. students as co-investigators)

I am doing research on the basic mental operations required in history courses and in spreading Decoding beyond its original applications individual college courses, particular in fostering cooperation between high school and college courses.

I am currently working with the EuroSoTL collaborative writing group to explore how results of work in Decoding can be shared. Over the years Decoders have identified large numbers of bottlenecks that disturb learning, have made explicit mental operations students must to overcome these obstacles, and have created strategies for modeling these skills, giving students an opportunity to practice them and receive feedback, for overcoming emotional resistance to this learning, and for sharing these with the teachers. In addition, they have worked to challenge many of the assumptions and established patterns of teaching that exclude large numbers of students and reinforce negative stereotypes.

But in the past there have been few means for sharing such valuable work with others. This group will work to overcome this by perfecting this Wiki. This will involve both adding materials to the Wiki and devising new genres for making resources, such as decoding interviews available to others.

My first steps in this process will be: 1) to continue entering material to accompany an article that I have submitted; 2) to link of a video of a decoding interview done in Canada in 2016.