1. Predict
Observe
Explain
Gráinne Conole,
University of Leicester
Learning Design Workshop,
Online Educa, 30/11/11
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2. Background
• POE strategy used to uncover individual students’ predictions, and
their reasons for making these, about a specific event (White and
Gunstone, 1992)
• Uses:
• find students' initial ideas
• provide teachers with information about students’ thinking
• generate discussion
• motivate students to want to explore the concept
• generate investigations.
3. Steps
Step 1: Demonstrate
• Set up a demonstration of an event, related to the focus topic, that may
surprise students, and which can be observed.
• Tell the students what you are going to be doing.
Step 2: Predict
• Ask the students to independently write their prediction of what will
happen.
• Ask them what they think they will see and why they think this.
Step 3: Observe
• Carry out the demonstration.
• Allow time to focus on observation.
• Ask students to write down what they do observe.
Step 4: Explain
• Ask students to amend or add to their explanation to take account of the
observation.
• After students have committed their explanations to paper, discuss their
ideas together.
Via: http://arb.nzcer.org.nz/strategies/poe.php
7. POE using a discussion forum and a wiki
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8. Outcomes
• Informed by social contructivism
• The collaborative use of the POE computer tasks is
designed to facilitate peer discussions and promote
conceptual development and consensual meaning-
making in the domain of science:
• Articulation and justification of a student’s own ideas
• Reflection on the viability of other students’ ideas.
• Critical reflection on a student’s own ideas.
• Construction and negotiation of new ideas.
9. References
• Oliver, R., and Herrington, J. (2001). Teaching and learning online: a
beginners guide to e-learning and e-teaching in Higher Education. Perth:
Edith Cowan University.
• White, R. T., & Gunstone, R. F. (1992). Probing Understanding. Great
Britain: Falmer Press.
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