Tagged: Hockett’s Design Features

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Think of an inquiry in which we explore the relationship between innovation, technology, and language development.
Consider this visual as a simple provocation.
J Rafael Angel Concept Based Learning Multimodal Text Concepts
As you think of the design of your unit.
  • What texts would you use to enrich your teaching context?
    a) What concepts would be the focus when using these texts?
  • What texts would you ask students to produce?
    a) What concepts would be the focus in these tasks?

Thinking about the two bullet points above wil help you articulate your generalizations effectively.

If you want to establish connections with TOK, consider this video.

Knowledge and technology

Scope:
To what extent is the internet changing what it means to know something?

Perspectives:
How has technology had an impact on how we browse, search and filter data and information?
Methods and tools:
How does technology extend or transform different modes of human communication?

Knowledge and language:

Scope:

What role does language play in allowing technological knowledge to be created and shared with future generations?
Is it the case that if we cannot express something, we don’t know it?

Perspective:
What knowledge might be lost if the certain languages cannot create their own terms to describe new concepts produced by innovations?

Methods and Tools:
To what extent do the names and labels that emerge from innovations and advances help the development of knowledge?