Talk:LOOP IN PASCAL Course
-- Suzanne Hayes 19:02, 26 November 2011 (EST)
Alex,
I liked the clock animated gif. It does a good idea of grabbing the reader’s attention. Your course objectives are well written. I liked the way you included context for each one by including “Given a real world problem.” I also read your needs assessment and task analysis in your portfolio page. I think your introductory unit is well organized and relevant based on your prior analysis. All of your activities are clearly marked and follow in logical sequence. Note that you will need to correct the heading “lecturer.” I think the word you want is “lecture” if you mean the F2F classroom part of the unit?
Here are some things that I think you will need to work on before you submit your final project.
- I tried to provide some proofreading and grammatical edits to your Introduction Module. See this PDF: File:Comment and suggested revisions to Introduction.pdf. I think it will be very important to have someone proofread all of your written work.
- I had some difficulty understanding the basic facts that you have presented in the description of the problem you want students to solve.
Does Mr. A plan to deposit $100 each month into his banking account or is this the base amount in his account? Do you want students to calculate growth for years 2 through 5 using different scenarios (e.g. 2% for all 4 years?) or does the 2%,3%, 4%, 5% apply to each consecutive year?
- In the Group Activity section, I was not sure what you meant by the three loop commands. Are there three different solutions that students in the group should provide? Or are three loop commands required to do the calculations for the problem?
- In the part of your intro called Section 2, I am not sure what you mean by “the teacher will give reflection.” Do you mean the teacher will give feedback or provide the solution to the original problem?
- I was able to easily connect to the Moodle site using the instructions you provided. It was a good idea to label your first module “Read this First.” This directed my attention to the pretest. This is very useful information for the instructor in terms of understanding each student’s preparation and prior knowledge for this course.
Hope this information is helpful. Let me know if you have any questions. sh
Re: -- ALEX DE KWELDJU 16:05, 28 November 2011 (EST)
Hi Suzanne,
Thanks for your advise.
- Mr. A plan to deposit $100 each month. So he will save $100 for initial saving and add $100 every next month. I want students to calculate growth of his money in first through fifth years using 2%, 3%, 4%, and 5% monthly compound interest. So, program should show money amount for 1st year (with 2%,3%, 4%, and 5%), 2nd year (with 2%,3%, 4%, and 5%), so on.
The outcome looks like this:
Monthly savings of $100 with monthly compounded interest
| Annual Rate | 2% | 3% | 4% | 5% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| After 1 year | xxxx | xxxx | xxxx | xxxx |
| After 2 years | xxxx | xxxx | xxxx | xxxx |
| After 3 years | xxxx | xxxx | xxxx | xxxx |
| After 4 years | xxxx | xxxx | xxxx | xxxx |
| After 5 years | xxxx | xxxx | xxxx | xxxx |
- For group activities, since there are 3 types loop commands in Pascal and all commands can be used to solve this problem, students should come with all three solutions. However, they have to discuss to choose the best of three based on rules and number of looping process.
- Yeah, the reflection part is still in progress. I should add more detail information about what teacher talk about.
Instructor comments on your course -- Jz833665 14:43, 28 November 2011 (EST)
Alex, I'm pleased to see the course you've worked out, and find Suzzane's comments and suggestions very helpful. Additionally you may think about the following two issues:
1) SESSION 2 - Reflection : This activity needs more details to elaborate on what students are expected to do (e.g. what type of new problems, submitted to where, by whom, for what purpose) and how this activity will deepen student understanding achieved in session 1. 2)Do you simply want students to comment on more peers in "B. Whole Class Discussion" ? It would enhance student engagement if this whole classroom discussion focuses on a deeper task/problem that deepens their small group discussions. Both of my suggestions point to the need to build a clearer progressive path in student learning so they continually use and deepen what they have learned for deep understanding and transfer.
Re: Instructor comments on your course -- ALEX DE KWELDJU 16:13, 28 November 2011 (EST)
1. I will work on it. I realized that this part is not clear. 2. Whole class discussion goal is each group come with their best solution (best loop command) and describe their reason. Other students from different group will give comment about it, for example they have another solution, they have same solution but different algorithm, they found bug on program, or they suggest improvement