Flashcards: Conceptual Transfer for Deep Learning — 61 cards

What is conceptual transfer?

The ability to use conceptual insights in new situations.

What does deep learning involve regarding facts and concepts?

Repeatedly zooming in on details and zooming out to grasp patterns.

How do conceptual connections benefit students' learning?

They help students learn deeply, think critically, and solve problems.

How many planetary boundaries does Earth cross?

Seven out of nine planetary boundaries.

What is a concept in organizing ideas?

An organizing idea with distinct attributes shared across examples.

What role do sub concepts play in relation to anchor concepts?

They are highly specific and support anchor or disciplinary concepts.

What defines anchor concepts in a unit?

They are the most important concepts for that unit.

How are disciplinary concepts characterized?

They are integral to a discipline and refined throughout the year.

What distinguishes transdisciplinary concepts?

They are seen across disciplines and relate to other concept types.

How do students build webs of conceptual connections?

By connecting previous concepts to new ones and making repeated passes.

What helps students generalize concepts?

Making repeated passes through conceptual connections.

Why do experts remember more than novices?

Because they see organized sets of ideas, not separate pieces.

What are the three stages of the learning transfer mental model?

Acquire concepts, connect concepts, and transfer conceptual insights.

What does industrial learning emphasize?

Remembering facts and skills.

What does concept-based learning emphasize?

Specific conceptual relationships.

What does conceptual transfer emphasize?

Applying learning to increasingly complex novel scenarios.

What must students do to transfer learning?

Construct and explain a web of conceptual connections and use them to solve new problems.

What do conceptual transfer paths repeatedly attend to?

Deeper structural patterns.

Toward what do conceptual transfer paths move?

Increasingly complex scenarios.

What does concept attainment ask students to analyze?

Examples and, when appropriate, non-examples.

What is the first step in the concept-attainment sequence?

Identify critical attributes.

What does SEEI ask students to do to consolidate a concept?

State its definition, elaborate it, exemplify it, and illustrate it.

What defines success in acquiring a concept?

Explaining critical attributes in own words and generating personal examples and non-examples.

What follows identifying critical attributes in the concept-attainment sequence?

Find examples.

When are obvious non-examples used in the concept-attainment sequence?

When useful.

How does SEEI ask students to exemplify a concept?

With an example or non-example.

How does SEEI ask students to illustrate a concept?

With a picture or metaphor.

What is the first step in concept mapping for students?

Arrange concepts and decide if they form an order or cycle.

How does hexagonal thinking start in arranging concepts?

It begins with two concept hexagons.

What do conceptual connections express?

They express relationships like necessity, causality, and opposition.

Give an example of a conceptual relationship involving acids and bases.

Acids and bases neutralize each other.

How do students test conceptual relationships across contexts?

By looking for evidence that confirms, contradicts, qualifies, or complicates their understanding.

What questions should transfer discussions ask students?

Where they saw a connection, how context supported the idea, and what evidence justifies their interpretation.

What tools do students use to explore number and quantity?

Objects, dots, and number lines.

What do numbers represent in students' exploration of quantity?

Quantities, recognizable arrangements, positions, and movements.

What characterizes strong conceptual connections?

They are general, transferable, and profound rather than obvious truisms.

What does industrial planning identify?

Specific facts and skills.

What does Understanding by Design identify?

Enduring understandings and a specific transfer goal.

What does concept-based planning identify?

Conceptual relationships.

What does conceptual transfer planning target?

General transfer to novel situations.

What is the first step in backwards planning for conceptual transfer?

Begin with desired conceptual results.

What does backwards planning establish after desired results?

Acceptable evidence using general transferable success criteria.

What is designed last in backwards planning for conceptual transfer?

Learning experiences that lead toward transfer.

What does a conceptual transfer portfolio contain?

A compelling question, routines for acquiring, connecting, transferring concepts, and supporting visuals.

What is an analogy in cognitive terms?

A device mapping one concept onto another based on similarities.

What ability does analogical reasoning support?

Noticing and drawing similarities across contexts.

How does expansive framing support transfer in learning?

By helping learners connect ideas to broader situations and prior knowledge.

Why are residuals in statistics compared to a plot twist?

Because both represent an unexpected element changing interpretation.

What retention value was reported in the workshop research?

Retention was reported at -.24 on the barometer of influence.

What distinguishes cheap dopamine from natural dopamine?

Cheap dopamine comes from instant gratification activities, natural dopamine from growth and learning.

What can comfort now lead to later?

Comfort now can lead to extreme discomfort later.

What can hard work now lead to later?

Hard work now can lead to maximum reward later.

What does authentic engagement avoid?

Authentic engagement avoids shortcuts and unrelated rewards.

What type of questions does authentic engagement use?

It uses compelling questions connected to improving life or the world.

How does authentic engagement teach about challenge and improvement?

It teaches that challenge and improvement can feel good.

What techniques does authentic engagement use?

It uses analogies, expansive framing, movement, objects, and drawing.

What is the first step in the pattern-seeking classroom process?

Noticing concepts in situations.

What is the second step in the pattern-seeking classroom process?

Explaining relationships among concepts.

What is the third step in the pattern-seeking classroom process?

Using evidence from new contexts to transfer conceptual insights.

What does conceptual transfer offer as an alternative path?

Equity, sustainability, well-being, sense-making, agency, and adaptability.

What kind of question does a compelling transfer question ask?

How understanding two concepts can help solve problems, improve the world, or shape identity.