Individual Assessment #3 - Learning Activities

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Assignment

It is hard to give a "competency demo" over the material from a project like this. You have not really learned new material that I am trying to assess whether you have mastered (although you, in fact, may have learned quite a bit more about what it means to design curriculum which is one of the outcomes from earlier).  In that regard, it doesn't really fit a traditional "competency demo"

However, I still need to assess whether you are moving forward with learning for this course and, specifically, for the material about course design. 

To provide that assessment I am asking you to complete four, individually written, deliverables over the duration of this project.  Each will correspond to one of the elements of your team's design document.  Each will give you an opportunity to reflect on the process and your participation in your team's efforts.  Each will follow the common structure outlined below:

  1. Provide a 2-3 paragraph review of what you think about your team's deliverable this week when it comes to designing course learning activities.
  2. How did your team incorporate issues of supportive practices when designing your activities?
  3. Select the three learning activities you think are MOST important to this course design. 
    • Why are they important in this type of course and how do you think students will translate these activities to actual learning
  4. Select the two learning activities you still don't like.  Or, from a different angle, places where you wish you had a completely different learning activity to better facilitate learning. 
    • What bothers you about them?
    • What would you LIKE to do but are having trouble creating?
  5. What is one question you still have about learning activities (in particular, CS learning activities) as part of curriculum design.