conceptual frameworks in legal research instruction: where pedagogy and design principles meet to...

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Slide 2 Conceptual Frameworks in Legal Research Instruction: Where Pedagogy and Design Principles Meet to Make Better Tutorials and Presentations Paul D. Callister, JD, MSLIS Director of the Leon E. Bloch Law Library & Associate Professor of Law Email callisterp@umkc.educallisterp@umkc.edu http://www1.law.umkc.edu/faculty/callister/models/cali04.ppt 2004, Paul D. Callister Slide 3 Take out a sheet of paper, in the next two minutes graphically represent (other then in grammatical sentences) your favorite subject to teach. Slide 4 Part I Why Bother with Conceptual Frameworks? Slide 5 The Problem The Problem Find Ursa Major and Draco Slide 6 The Solution Slide 7 We do not first see, and then define, We define first, and then see. We do not first see, and then define, We define first, and then see. --Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion 81 (7 th printing, 1961) Slide 8 Semantic Network Theory Our memory is organized into networks consisting of interlinked nodes. Nodes are basic pieces of information or individual words.... Learning is the process of building new knowledge structures by acquiring new nodes. Peter A. Hook, Creating an Online Tutorial and Pathfinder, 94 Law Libr. J. 243, 248-49 (2002) (citations omitted) Picture Ommitted Slide 9