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Thinking About Student Learning
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Questions about Learning:
Thinking about your teaching and learning goals for a particular teaching session or classroom activity.
Using
this historical map of Youngstown, Ohio
from the Library of Congress website, students
complete an exercise in pairs. The computer is
used to zoom in and out
so that they can select
which part of the map they want to investigate
Watch the video of
Sherry reflecting on the exercise.
56K modem T-1/DSL Depending on the speed of your Internet connection, please, choose one of the above versions of the video. You must have the Apple Quicktime plug-in to view the video. Please download it at: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
Sherry's goals for the exercise were the start of her researchable question in the scholarship of teaching and learning. She hypothesized that doing this map exercise in pairs, in front of computers, would:
- help students slow down
- get students to look more closely at this electronic map than they
might at a paper one
- increase their sense of the map as a "thick" object--that
is, as an object capable of multiple interpretations and as a text capable
of rich reading
- make them more aware of their own knowledge (more self-reflexive) and more inclined to build on their local knowledge of Youngstown.
A.
Learning Goals for the Map Exercise
B.
Discussion Prompts
How do these issues play out in your courses? How important are they?
What strategies do you use to get students to slow down, to look more closely, to become aware of themselves as learners?
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