The ghost in the shell theme - where does the machine begin and the human
end?
The theme content areas in the mySF Project are based around several models
of thematic studies in SF, as seen in the longer overview article in the
Innovative Teachers website at Microsoft.
The column of eight choices to the right shows the different learning episodes
occurring over a ten week term. The first and last learning episode (LE) are
omitted as this small unit starts with a concept map and introduction to
the system and ends with an assessment and reflection in a final concept map
in week ten.
The ambition of this theme area, like the other four, is to have students
construct knowledge in response to the themes in
the learning episodes. This use of a computer environment for knowledge
construction through collaboration is based on Bereiter's (2002) CSILE
models.
Used in the classroom, students start with Learning Episode 1 and move
through to Learning Episode 10, either as flexible
learning (though they can jump around and between themes at the same LE
level), or as blended learning if a teacher works directly with the students.
Learning Episode 1 includes an introduction to the whole theme area and then
different texts are dealt with, in an order of increasing difficulty so that
the conceptual ideas or artefacts are explored with questions and
constructions in the last few learning episodes, all seen to the right,
middle of this page.
Why not start with
Learning Episode 1?
Unfortunately, this area is not yet complete, so LE1 is the only one
that exists as at late 2016.
Resource List
Bereiter, C.
(2002). Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age, Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates, Mahwah, NJ.
