Assignments+-+EDUC-2092+Spring+2013

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Week 1 - April 4th, 2013

Assignment #1 - Professionalism Learning Plan Doc – shared with me, sources/links, ideas; **entries to be made weekly.** **(16 marks - 2 per class - April 4, 11, 18, 25)**

Assignment #2 - Assignments **(10 marks)** **DUE: April 11th** [|Reading] and reflection on your wiki page Add a photo of yourself to your wiki page.

Assignment #3 - Assignments **(50 marks)**
 * Learning Theories – Inquiry project and presentation **
 * Due: April 18th **
 * Divide into groups
 * Add to the Google Presentation shared with you to introduce, describe/explain your learning theory - here is the [|link] to the Google Presentation where you will enter your findings.
 * If there are individual inventory/tests to be taken, do so and report on your findings--are these accurate? (5 marks)
 * Provide examples of where/what situation would best suit your learning theory--uses, advantages and limitations of your learning theory (10 marks)
 * Provide the resources used in your presentation (10 marks)
 * Present your findings April 18th--decide who will do the talking, one or all--DO NOT READ your presentation!! - 15 minutes per group (25 marks)

> Groups/Names - Group #1 - Multiple Intelligences - Marnie-Leigh, Michele, Tom Group #2 - Cooperative Learning - Roxy, Donna, Wade Group #3 - Personality Types - Elaine, Gil Group #4 - Learning Styles - Michael, Melodie, Debbie Group #5 - Multicultural Education - Stefan, Brenda, Barry Group #6 - Metacognition - Bryan, David (please see the class contacts Doc for email address to connect with each other)
 * 1)  Multiple Intelligences – Howard Gardner – 8 intelligences
 * 2)  Cooperative Learning - This teaching method promotes active participation, individual accountability, students' ability to work cooperatively and improvement of social skills.
 * 3)  Personality Types – Myers-Briggs type indicator, Keirsey Temperament Sorter
 * 4)  Learning styles—David Kolb’s learning Style inventory, Anthony Gregorc’s Mind Styles Model, Gerald Grow’s Model
 * 5)  Multicultural education – everyone should have the opportunity to learn regardless of ethnic or racial background – James Banks – global education makes this more possible
 * 6)  Metacognition – thinking about thinking; Knowing Knowledge – George Siemens: “the more I know the more I realize I don’t know”.

Learning Theories - [|resource]from Instructional Methods

Week 2 - April 11th, 2013

Assignment #4 - Assignments **(25 marks)** Reading and reflection on your wiki page – Search for an article on "The Flipped Classroom". Write a summary and your reflection on the article. What does it mean to "flip" your classroom? Prepare a short (1-2 minutes) review of your reading. Provide the source for your reading. Be prepared to discuss next class (class discussion). Good resource is Faculty Focus website. Research perhaps first what does this mean. [|Video]

Assignment #5 - Presentations PBL 5-hour project – individual or groups Due: May 16th Inquiry-Based Learning - "Learn to do something" and present May 23rd. (100 marks)

Choose a partner or decide to work individually
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Decide/Discuss what you would like to learn - ** share ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ideas - something somewhat significant - not a topic that is too simplistic - should take about 5 hours to learn this and no you do not know how to do this - confirm your topic with me before you begin
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Document everything you do to learn this, i.e., Trello, Docs (20 marks)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Include some video or images of your process and progress (20 marks)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choose a format to present this learning to the class - May 16th - 15 minute presentations (50 marks)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Share your learning object on your wiki page (10 marks)

Assignment #6 – Professionalism Classroom Management Group Doc - as per wiki instruction **(25 marks)** **DUE: April 25th** Enter your answers on this [|Google Doc]as per the details at the top of the Doc and the wiki page/class discussion. Read the comments entered by your peers. Respond to at least one other entry.

Week 3 - April 18th, 2013

Assignment #7 - Assignments **(20 marks)** **DUE: May 2nd** Reading -[| read this article]on Role Play  OPTIONAL READING - [|one] [|two], [|three] - (I have changed this to optional as there is plenty of homework to do without this but if you want more information, it is available for you)   Reflect on your reading on your wiki page - include your views on how this article relates to your curriculum, i.e., is the strategy applicable?, how? Add Comments on 2 other student pages in response to their reflection and views – identify your first name: then your comment

Resources: [|Student Centred Approaches in Higher Educational Settings]

Assignment #8 - Presentations DUE: May 2nd <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Individual Presentation - how can you use learner-centered approaches in your teaching? - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(100 marks) >
 * Prepare a Google Doc/Prezi or other shared/cloud object outlining three learner-centered approaches that will increase the learning for your learners (20 marks)
 * Provide clear examples of what you will have your students do for each of the three topics identifying the name of the learner-centered approach. Example: choose a topic that you would usually teach using a lecture method and indicate a learner-centered approach that you will use in place of the lecture (e.g., WebQuest). (20 marks)
 * State the learning outcome for each learner-centered approach. (20 marks)
 * Indicate the evaluation strategy/process for each example. (20 marks)
 * Present your plan to the class as per presentation schedule (20 marks)
 * The presentation should be 10 minutes - see presentation schedule on this wiki

Learning Theory Presentations - Groups/Names - 15 mins each group and 5 mins discussion - 4:35 - 4:50 - Group #1 - Multiple Intelligences - Marnie-Leigh, Michele, Tom 4:55 - 5:10 - Group #2 - Cooperative Learning - Roxy, Donna, Wade 5:15 - 5:30 - Group #3 - Personality Types - Elaine, Gil 5:35 - 5:50 - Group #4 - Learning Styles - Michael, Melodie, Debbie 6:20 - 6:35 - Group #5 - Multicultural Education - Stefan, Brenda, Barry 6:40 - 6:55 - Group #6 - Metacognition - Bryan, David

Preparation for next week: Create a Popplet.com account - use your Gmail account to set this up

Learning Journal Doc - please comment this week on your experience in creating your Learning Theories group presentation. Was this a positive experience for you? Do you think that every member of the group participated equally? How did this student-centered approach work for you in terms of learning about learning theories?

Week 4 - April 25th, 2013

Assignment #9 - Professionalism **(20 marks)** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Popplet


 * Join Popplet at [|popplet.com]
 * Participation in class activity

Assignment #10 - Assignment <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Webquest <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">** (25 marks) **
 * On your wiki page -
 * Write about--describe--a webquest that you could develop for your teaching. (5 marks)
 * Provide three websites that would be beneficial for your webquest. (10 marks)
 * Identify other objects or information that you would need to create this webquest - video, pictures, text instructions (5 marks) - state the purpose of each of these (5 marks).
 * G ather information that would prepare you to develop such a webquest.

Add your name to the Presentation Schedule

Week 5 - May 2nd, 2013 - Individual presentations Assignment #8 Learner-centered approaches - Assignment #8 Peer Critiques - Professionalism (16 marks) Comment on your wiki page with feedback for each presentation. This will be assigned marks for Professionalism. **If you are absent for any presentations**, it is your responsibility to view the embedded presentations on the wiki pages for these students and comment accordingly.

To embed your Google Presentation: Click File>Publish to the Web>Start Publishing>Copy the embed code Now go to your wiki page. Create a widget>choose 'Other'>Paste the Embed code in the box at the bottom of the widget screen Save and Save

Week 6 - May 9th, 2013 - individual presentations Assignment #8

Week 7 - May 16th, 2013 - 5-hr PBL presentations Assignment #5 Project Based Learning Inquiry- Assignment #5 Peer Critiques - Professionalism (16 marks) Comment on your wiki page with feedback for each presentation. This will be assigned marks for Professionalism. **If you are absent for any presentations**, it is your responsibility to view the embedded presentations on the wiki pages for these students and comment accordingly.

Optional reading - [|Learner-centered approaches: where to begin](Faculty Focus) Resource - [|Active Learning]

Week 8 - May 23rd, 2013 - 5-hr PBL presentations Assignment #5 [|Final reflection and evaluation]--please complete this form by May 30th for marks to be included in presentation category.

ALL WORK IS DUE ONE WEEK AFTER THE LAST CLASS - May 30th, 2013.