Category: Homework Assignment

Make your article multi-modal by making, finding, and embedding visual and/or audio elements that add to the meaning and utility of your article. Revise the text of your article to reference the new visual and/or audio elements and enable your readers to make use of it to overcome their challenge.

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 …

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 …