Impact on My Professional Practice > Calling Past Participants
I'd like to encourage all past Whale Class participants to share how their experience in the class has changed their professional practice....whether you are in K-12 education, higher ed, or the business world. How did the Whale Class affect what you do?
June 8, 2007 |
Christa Harrelson Deissler
Christa Harrelson Deissler
Situated Cognition and the communities of practice theories are the cornerstone to the success I have experienced in Engineering Education. Students are submerged in an engineering environment within the comprehensive high school. It becomes a very tight community of students with similar career ambitions. They speak a unique language that many students from outside the "academy" will not understand. They have, thus, developed very strong relationships with members of this unique community. They reinforce content in a social context that is extremely essential to adolescent learners.
I do have some preliminary data n an attempt to show validity. 336 students have participated in the engineering academy since 1999. By the Spring of 2007, 76 will have an engineering or engineering technology degree.
On the second or third day aboard the vessel (and please...it is not a whaling vessel...LOL), you will be amazed by how much content you have absorbed. As a community member, you will reinforce your understanding as you teach this content to other members of the community (customers, and fellow classmates.) I attended the class 3 years ago and have am amazed oin my retention level of this content regarding whales, other aquatic animals and birds, and our personal responsibility to the environment.
It is a living example of the theories of situated cognition. Lave and Wenger so rock!!! So does JSchell...
Kachmar
I do have some preliminary data n an attempt to show validity. 336 students have participated in the engineering academy since 1999. By the Spring of 2007, 76 will have an engineering or engineering technology degree.
On the second or third day aboard the vessel (and please...it is not a whaling vessel...LOL), you will be amazed by how much content you have absorbed. As a community member, you will reinforce your understanding as you teach this content to other members of the community (customers, and fellow classmates.) I attended the class 3 years ago and have am amazed oin my retention level of this content regarding whales, other aquatic animals and birds, and our personal responsibility to the environment.
It is a living example of the theories of situated cognition. Lave and Wenger so rock!!! So does JSchell...
Kachmar
June 19, 2007 |
Chaz Kachmar
Chaz Kachmar