Talk:Jamie Davis Design Project Portfolio

Instructor comments on your project -- Jz833665 15:14, 15 October 2011 (EDT)

Your design project work is on the right track. A few suggestions for you to consider: In the beginning, you may say more about the pedagogical approach/tools that will you use and demonstrate in the lessons you're designing. I remember we talked about ideas such as integrated teaching of history and math. It is important to keep you pedagogical thinking and focus clear. You may elaborate more on the learner: their prior knowledge, typical challenges and difficulties in this area... Your learning objectives need to be expanded. I understanding is that you're addressing several interrelated objectives: understanding the the importance of history in mathematics; solve for the missing sides of a right triangle. You should state/specify each objective separately instead of mixing these together.

Instructor comments on your draft units -- Jz833665 22:51, 29 November 2011 (EST)

Jamie, I'm happy to see the progress you've made in drafting these lesson activities, which look very engaging and informative. A few comments/suggetions:

• As you may have noticed, I've changed your "Design Project" page title into a more unique one, so others won't overwrite your page by using the same title.

• Objectives: Learning objectives mean to describe what students will be able to after they complete their learning, instead of activities they need to do during the learning. So, a few of your objectives need to be rewritten, such as those saying "given texts to read..." "after watching a video" These are what students do during this learning experience, not what they will get.

• Objective-content consistency: I'm not quite sure, but you may double check if your activities match with the following course-level objectives well.

describe the importance of Pythagoras from history in mathematics.

identify the parts of a right triangle.

demonstrate use of Pythagorean Theorem to solve problems.

determine if 3 measurements create a triangle, a right triangle, or no triangle.

make sense of problems, and persevere to solve them. (New Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice -www.corestandards.org)

choose future online units.

• Resource use: It is fine to use many online resources. When you do so, you may add a few words to background each resource (e.g. reading, video) so learners will have a clear intention and focus.

• Formatting/navigation: You used subheadings in a helpful way in several pages such as Information_Page_on_Know-Want_to_Know-Learned You may want to use the same style of formatting across all of your pages.