Lesson 3: LfU Forum

checkbox2Category to select: B. LfU
Due on Friday of Week 8.
Select one of the following three questions that resonate with you and your ongoing awareness of the implications technology has for students, teaching practice, curriculum development, and schools. Write preliminary notes and refine for posting to our discussion forum (see below).

View the questions

  • Using additional literature from the field of science education, what are several conceptual challenges students might have today with understanding Earth Science that LfU might support?
  • In what ways would you teach an LfU-based activity to explore a concept in math or science? Draw on LfU and My World scholarship to support your pedagogical directions. Given its social and cognitive affordances, extend the discussion by describing how the activity and roles of the teacher and students are aligned with LfU principles.
  • Imagine how LfU principles might be applied to a topic you teach. Now switch out the My World technology. What other domain specific (and non-domain specific) software might help you achieve these principles while teaching this topic? By domain-specific, we mean software designed for STEM education, and by non-domain specific, we mean software or other forms of technology that could be used generally in multiple domains (eg. Wikis). Other GIS software can be selected for the switch.

1. Share one of your entries to the questions above (ensure that your post uses the readings you read in this lesson and quotes from them). Utilize a relevant and interesting subject header to invite readers to your post. Post in advance of the respond by date.

2. Respond to one other blog post by Friday of Week 8. Check the calendar.

3. Inquiry e-folio: If you are doing this for your final assignment, include your response also as an entry in your e-folio.


LFU with Space Science

Posted by jwlewis on July 29, 2017

LFU & Human Migration Data

Posted by Cristina Leo on July 7, 2017

GIS & Inquiry

Posted by Kirsten Ocoin on

LfU – an application for pelvic anatomy?

Posted by momoe on July 6, 2017

Intrinsic motivations

Posted by Wanyi Wong on July 5, 2017

Applying LFU framework to introductory algorithm classes

Posted by YooYoung on

The Sky’s the Limit in GoogleSky

Posted by seanturn on

Design Project and LfU

Posted by Derek Cowan on

Vacation anyone? : Let’s Talk Time Zones

Posted by Jocelynn Mortlock on

LfU and Simple Machines

Posted by Sarah Winkler on July 4, 2017

“Curiouser and curiouser!” ~ Alice In Wonderland

Posted by Natalie Roberts on

Becoming the teacher

Posted by Nathan Lott on

LFU to elicit curiosity in Elementary classrooms

Posted by DANIELLE PETERS on

LFU activities in Mathematics

Posted by Gary Ma on

Constructing knowledge and structures

Posted by baljeet gill on

A “Bridge Building” reflection through a LfU lens

Posted by Michael Hengeveld on

LfU – What’s Your Motivation?

Posted by Allen Wideman on July 3, 2017

Geographic conceptions

Posted by Andrew Yeung on

Interpreting Graphical Relationships within an Embodied, LfU Framework

Posted by Dana Bjornson on March 16, 2017

Around the World with…the Learning for Use Pedagogy

Posted by samia on March 1, 2017

Technology, Learning for Use (LfU) and Supporting Students in Science

Posted by Michelle Furlotte on February 26, 2017

Developing Spatial Literacy using Google Earth

Posted by allison kostiuk on February 25, 2017

Creating Spatial Awareness

Posted by tyler kolpin on

Finding One’s Place Through Inquiry

Posted by jessica holder on February 24, 2017

LfU in the UAE

Posted by haneefa corbie on