Reading and Writing are Superpowers*
Learning Targets: local revision, global revision Add 300 new words to your paper by elaborating on ideas in no more than two paragraphs already existing in your paper. Address local issues with your paper by editing, polishing and proofreading. Read this rubric to see what you should be cleaning up at this phase of the writing process. Use this Paper Finishing Read More …
Learning targets: critique own work and others, revision planning, global revision, active critical reading Re-read your paper from beginning to end and take notice of the comments you received. As you read, add replies to comments in which you make plans to address the reviewer’s concerns. Add comments of your own in places where you notice room for improvement. Take Read More …
Write a Paper Step 1 – Step 2 – Step 3 – Step 4 – Step 5 Write a paper in which you use well-elaborated examples from everyday life and the Kahneman essay to explain some of the reasons why people often feel very confident about their judgments even when they make bad judgments. Your Read More …
Engage Kanheman Learning targets: synthesis, saying why it matters, connecting the dots, writing fast, prewriting, integrating your ideas with those of others Kahneman defines skill in a precise way and has a lot to say about the over-confidence of professionals who believe they are skilled even when evidence shows that their performance can’t be measured Read More …
This homework assignment is the first bit of prewriting you’ll do towards your next paper. Give it your best effort. Read and annotate “So What? Who Cares?: Saying Why It Matters” in They Say/I Say. Post photos of 3 pages of your annotations on your ePortfolio. Go through Kahneman’s article and make a list of Read More …
Engage Kahneman Learning targets: active critical reading strategies, summary, prewriting Preview the questions on the quiz for Daniel Kahneman’s “Don’t Blink! The Hazards of Confidence.” Read this brief article on how to segment a reading into chunks. Print, read and annotate Kahneman’s “Don’t Blink! The Hazards of Confidence.” There are five chunks in the Kahneman Read More …
Teach Yourself How to Teach Others to Learn Teams Team BMCB: Jesse Barber, Kyle Messenger, Nick Cavossa, Danny BloomerResponsible for Ch. 3 “Metacognition” | Ch. 5 “Metacognitive Learning Strategies at Work” Team FDSS: Autumn Flagg, Ashley Delisle, Terry Sun, Tommy SlavinResponsible for Ch. 4 “The Power of Bloom’s Taxonomy and the Study Cycle” | Ch. Read More …
Engage Stephen Chew’s “Beliefs that Make You Fail…. Or Succeed” – About 40 minutes First, complete this pre-viewing activity. View and take notes on “Beliefs that Make You Fail…. Or Succeed” by cognitive psychologist Stephen Chew. Re-read the paragraphs you wrote in class about your study habits. Then write for 15 minutes expanding those paragraphs Read More …
PRO TIP: The second activity builds on skills practiced in the first one. So, do them in order. Task 1 – Practice Seeing Signal Phrases, Pivot Words and Voice Markers – About 20 minutes Learning Targets: seeing signal phrases, pivot words and voice markers, active reading, distinguishing what one writer says from what another writer Read More …
