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Session 3, May 31, 2016
This third session focused on John Zubizarreta’s “The Learning Portfolio: A Powerful Idea for Significant Learning.“ The author asserts that student portfolios are still very much in use and should continue to be utilized in all areas of school, as well as out of school contexts, as a method for “displaying and judging evidence of […]
Session 2, May 3, 2016
The discussion for Session 2 centered around “Promoting Critical Thinking through Sequenced Activities” by Barbara J. Mills. This article is valuable from several points of view: 1) from a theoretical one and 2) from a practical teaching perspective. Mills focuses on: I. Deep Learning (the outcome of teaching for critical thinking)— She says that we […]
Session #1: April 5, 2016
Spring 2016 The Reading: This semester the group picked up where we left off in the fall with a discussion of “Democracy Lab” (see Session 3, Chapter 4, Fall 2015). This section of the chapter discusses how to involve students in Democracy Lab Forums. Though James Knauer presents the pedagogical construct as an online experience […]
