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-- When I teach courses (especially foundational courses), I have a traditional ideas around instructional design. I am intrigued by the NDM work, but I'm not sure how to incorporate their ideas into school-based courses.

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Nathan Belcher, Ed.D.

@ntbelcher

May 3

New article: "Instructional Design for Science Teachers: Using the Idea of Mental Models to Drive Learning" medium.com/age-of-awarene Thread of the main points below:

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Hm, I'm not sure if you should copy NDM work. There's a rich literature built around classroom-based instructional design, and I think those ideas work well for the context. (The context is: get students to do well on tests, and hopefully they learn something as a result).

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The lesson from NDM's expertise acceleration work is that if your goal is to get people to do well in vocational tasks, a classroom approach is merely one approach. And it's usually not the best, because it has poor cognitive fidelity to the real world task.

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Nathan Belcher, Ed.D.

@ntbelcher

May 4

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Right -- I wasn't thinking of (blindly) copying NDM work into the classroom. I have many more thoughts than a twitter comment can hold (haha); I may have to write more about the way I think of classroom teaching versus other teaching.

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Have you taken a look at Accelerated Expertise yet, by the way? I’m sure there are promising things in there that I haven’t thought to apply, since I don’t know your context well enough :)

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