Reading and Writing are Superpowers*
Write a Paper – About 2 hours Using the materials-to-think-with, readings, and resources you’ve engaged since the beginning of the course, write a paper in which you construct an answer the following question: “What are the most important things students should learn in college?” Audience: High school juniors choosing which colleges to apply toWord count: Read More …
Task 1 – Set up your ePortfolio – About 30 minutes Login to your ePortfolio and go to your Dashboard. Customize your ePortfolio theme and site identity (particularly your site title and tagline) in a way that reflects you and it’s current purpose as a portfolio of in-process work completed in your first year of Read More …
PRO TIP: There are 3 tasks this weekend. Space out your work. Task 1 – Engage “The Art of Quoting” – About 40 minutes Take the pre-test for “The Art of Quoting” before reading the chapter. Read and annotate “The Art of Quoting” in They Say/I Say. Study for “The Art of Quoting” post-test. Please paraphrase all answers to the questions by putting your Read More …
Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is a product of the activity of the learner.–John Holt Contents Why students fail | What successful students do to get As & Bs | How to Study with Bloom’s Taxonomy | The Study Cycle | Study Principles | Study Techniques that Work | Mastery Learning Process Read More …
PRO TIP: SPREAD OUT YOUR WORK To get the most out of these assignments, engage the Ungar piece on Wednesday, then study for the post test and do the writing assignment on Thursday. If you scored less than 12 of 16 on the “Art of Summary” quiz, you need to study and retake it before Read More …
Task 1 – About 45 minutesDue before Sat. Aug. 31 at 2 pm Learning targets: active and critical reading, pre-reading, annotation, paraphrase, studying PRO TIP: Do this activity before working on the paper described below. I’ll be expecting you to apply what you learn from this chapter to your paper. Preview the questions on the Read More …
Ronald Barnett, The Idea of Higher Education (1991, 155-6): “A genuine higher learning is subversive in the sense of subverting the student’s taken-for-granted world, including the world of endeavor, scholarship, calculation or creativity, into which he or she has been initiated. A genuine higher education is unsettling; it is not meant to be a cosy Read More …
Leftover activity from first class. If you haven’t already, please send me an email that fits the description in the link. Task 1 – About 80 minutes Learning targets: active and critical reading, pre-reading, annotation, studying PRO TIP: Read all instructions completely. Print the transcript to Carol Dweck’s “The Power of Believing You Can Improve.” Read More …
