Talk:Sarah Morehouse

Instructor comments on your needs assessment and objectives -- Jianwei Zhang (talk) 14:01, 16 March 2013 (EDT)

Sarah,

I'm impressed by the work you've conducted for this design project. The needs analysis and objectives identified point to a rich and helpful mini-course. A few suggestions and comments:

1. Your objectives can be further consolidated and streamlined. The objectives currently combine three topics: wiki, info literacy, and problem-based pedagogy. I'd encourage you to reflect on their relationship and select one (no more than two) as your primary focus, so you can make more concentrated effort.
2. Two objective statements use the phrases "The learner will state their new understanding of..." "State" may not be the best performance verb to demonstrate understanding. You may revisit David Perkins and his co--author's paper and think about what intelligent performance/action will show such understanding, for example, explain, provide examples, make distinctions, apply, solve problems...

Instructor comments on your ICM and draft unit -- Jianwei Zhang (talk) 23:06, 15 April 2013 (EDT)

Hi Sarah,

Your work on this design project is very impressive. Your task analysis and sequencing has worked nicely. One thing to think about: The following unit addresses a broad issue and I'm not quite sure how important it is to critical thinking/information literacy. You should decide whether you want to exclude it from this mini-course.

Unit 5 - The Social Creation of Knowledge and Peer Review

The learner will state the advantages and disadvantages of the peer review system, by writing or creating a media presentation.
The learner will explain the concept of scholarly communication or the conversation among scholars that takes place in journal articles and monographs, and also compare it to the less formal generation and negotiation of knowledge that takes place inside and outside of the scholarly community (eg in Wikipedia), by writing or creating a media presentation.

Re: Instructor comments on your ICM and draft unit -- Sarah Morehouse (talk) 16:12, 17 April 2013 (EDT)

Thank you for the feedback. I have been so worried that I am behind and/or missing the point somehow, but now I feel a little better. If only I didn't have two weddings to go to this weekend! I wonder if they would notice me typing away behind a potted plant...

Those are crucial concepts for Information Literacy, but I see how they are not as tightly bound up with the other topics I cover as the rest of them are with each other. I will leave them out for now, and add them in later, when I use the course. Thank you for the suggestion! Sometimes I need to be reminded that I do not have to be on the job when I am doing my schoolwork.

Sarah