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SUMMARY:Productive Failure by Prof Manu Kapur
DTSTART:20170220T113000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Manu Kapur is currently Professor and Chair of Learning Scienc
 es and Higher Education at ETH Zurich Prior to joining ETH Zürich\, he wa
 s a Professor of Psychological Studies at The Education University of Hong
  Kong (EduHK). Manu also worked as the Head of the Curriculum\, Teaching a
 nd Learning Academic Group (CTL AG) as well as the Head of Learning Scienc
 es Lab (LSL) at the National Institute of Education (NIE) of Singapore. An
  engineer by bachelors training\, Manu was a pre-university mathematics te
 acher for five years before receiving his doctorate in instructional techn
 ology and media from Teachers College\, Columbia University in New York\, 
 where he also completed a Master of Science in Applied Statistics. He also
  has a Master of Education from the NIE. Early in his academic career\, Ma
 nu directed a $50m interactive and digital media R&D program at the Minist
 ry of Education of Singapore to jumpstart research on interactive and digi
 tal media in education in Singapore.\nIf learning from failure is intuitiv
 ely compelling\, why don’t we intentionally design for and bootstrap it 
 for learning? My research on Productive Failure (PF) aims for precisely th
 at by engaging students in solving novel\, complex problems that target c
 oncepts they have not learnt yet. Invariably\, students are unable to solv
 e the problem correctly. However\, to the extent students are able to gene
 rate and explore multiple representations and solutions even if the soluti
 ons are suboptimal or incorrect\, the process prepares them to learn subse
 quent instruction. Through concrete examples of how PF works\, I will ill
 ustrate the underlying learning mechanisms of PF\, together with evidence 
 from experimental and quasi-experimental studies demonstrating the efficac
 y of PF in developing deep conceptual knowledge and transfer. We will fini
 sh with a group discussion of implications for theory and practice.
LOCATION:BC 420 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420
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