Explore and create: Exploratory Creation lab 
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Educators are charged with teaching and demonstrating the flexibility of thinking in different ways but are rarely taught how to present, develop or assess these skills. In this session, participants explore learning and cognition through an applied approach using thinking frameworks, visual literacy, and digital tools. Special attention is given to translating cognitive and learning sciences findings into strategies, materials, interventions, and thinking routines for educational settings. Participants explore digital tools for modeling and sharing thinking as well as scaffolding frameworks, visual tools, and protocols. The ethical and social-justice implications of thinking and cognition are considered from a critical lens. Topics include critical thinking and problem-solving, creative thinking, design thinking, systems thinking, and positive thinking.
Introduction - How do we know what our learners are thinking? (10 mins)
Participant poll
Understanding visual strategies for assessment - what can we learn and how? (15 mins)
Participants view examples and discuss in small groups or padlet
Recognizing connections and misconceptions in learning through concept maps and other graphics (10 mins)
Participants collaborate to identify possible uses for images(applications)
Shaping thinking using routines or protocols (10 mins)
Wrap up
throughout, participants will be encouraged to ask questions and contribute through chat and a backchannel
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Laurillard, D. (2015). Teaching as a Design Science.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2018). How people learn II: Learners, contexts, and cultures. National Academies Press.
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Yadav, A., Good, J., Voogt, J., & Fisser, P. (2017). Computational thinking as an emerging competence domain. In Competence-based vocational and professional education (pp. 1051-1067). Springer, Cham.
Zaretta Hammond "Culturally Responsive Teaching" at the San Francisco Public Library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME8KjqyqthM
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