What Is an Engineered Epiphany? • Workforce Applied Research Center • • • Catalytic Curriculum Design Series An Engineered Epiphany is a consolidating, sense-making event in Catalytic Curriculum Design. In practical terms, it is a designed-for “aha” moment when the learner sees how the new idea fits with what they already understand. CCD seeks to…
What Are Catalysts for Learning? Workforce Applied Research Center • • • Article 2 of 6 A catalyst for learning is something that lowers the barrier to a new connection forming between new and existing knowledge, without adding to what needs to be learned. Picture a high school chemistry classroom. A single flask holds acetic…
Why New Information Needs a Cognitive Schema to Form Understanding Workforce Applied Research Center • • • Article 1 of 6 New information becomes durable understanding only when it connects to an existing cognitive schema. Without that connection, a fact can still be memorized, but it stays brittle and difficult to apply. In 1854, addressing…
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A guided introduction to designing the conditions in which meaningful insight is more likely to form, develop and endure toward capability. Catalytic curriculum design is the deliberate preparation and orchestration of the conditions in which a particular insight is more likely to form. When…
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