The document discusses different views of understanding. It defines understanding as the ability to flexibly perform with a topic by explaining, justifying, extrapolating, relating, and applying knowledge and skills. It also presents the representational view that understanding depends on acquiring or constructing an appropriate mental representation, such as a schema or model. Additionally, it discusses obtaining knowledge through practice and repetition over time to acquire skills like riding a bike or playing an instrument.

1. WHAT IS UNDERSTANDING? Conducted By Carolina Bernal David Muñoz

2. Topic: What’s Understanding Class: Micro-teaching Basic Date: 8/8/2011 Content Objectives: Ss will observe how to dismantle theories and to build on their critical thinking Materials: *Video Beam *Computer *Videos *Music *Lyrics Key Vocabulary: *(It is expected to be found as the lesson goes on and on) Language Objectives: *Ss will use a lot of conditionals phrases *Ss wil use a lot of future sentences

3. Knowledge, skill, and understanding are important in the educational process. Students should have… … a good repertoire of knowlegde, well-developed skills, and an understanding of the meaning, significance, and a use of what they have studied.

4. Challenges become knowledge. A PERFORMANCE CRITERION FOR UNDERSTANDING

5. “ To understand a topic means to be able to perform flexibility with the topic, to explain, justify, extrapolate, relate, and apply in ways that go beyond knowledge and routine skills.” A performance view of understanding

6. The representational view of understanding Understanding depends on acquiring or constructing an appropiate representation of some sort- a schema, mental model, or image.

7. To get knowledge by practice; to acquire knowledge by doing things over and over again. Example: *Ride a Bicycle *Play an instrument Bruner The idea of categorization; Movements Why Music Videos are made the way they are made?

8. Rules or Laws are desprictive, but not prescriptive Action Schemas are those representative for one person, but not ever studied consciously. Apply force, look, close your eyes when it’s windy; etc.