Today will be our first class meeting. We will meet in room MB-11 at 1:00 p.m.
The assignments to be completed by the following class session will appear each Monday and Wednesday on a Daily Assignment page like this one. When work is due on a specific day during the week, it will also appear in the calendar for that day. Sometimes these Daily Assignment pages will be long, with fairly detailed instructions. It is important that you always read the whole thing and understand all of the instructions. These pages take the place of extended in-class explanations of what is due. I will not always tell you in class what is written in the Syllabus. You are responsible for using the online Syllabus to find out what is due and when. If you have questions or comments, please ask them in class or send them to me by e-mail as soon as you have them.
Complete and submit the Student Questionnaire and your Learning Inventory before Monday. You may do this either from a remote computer or from a campus lab.
Reading to be completed before the next class on Monday:
1. Introduction to All the Rest
2. The Rest of the Introduction
7. Thinking About Being a Student.
Writing to be submitted by Monday:
1. The Student Questionnaire and Learning Inventory. Print out a copy of your Learning Inventory (you will receive a confirmation page after you submit it that gives you a copy of your answers), and bring it to class on Wednesday.
2. Response to questions at the conclusion of Introduction to All the Rest.
3. Your personal introduction. Describe yourself to the other members of the class so that we have a better idea of who you are. You could consider the following ideas, but don't feel obliged to cover them all, and don't limit yourself to them:
Post your introduction on your Blackboard site by Wednesday. See Directions for Blackboard for how to do this.
4. A reflection paper on Thinking About Being a Student. Please respond to the following prompt:
When you completed the Learning Inventory you gave some examples of situations in which you have experienced successful learning and some in which you have had difficulty learning. In Thinking About Being a Student you read about the different dimensions of intelligence that David Perkins describes and the mindsets that Carol Dweck has explored. Select a kind of activity at which you have been a successful learner and briefly describe some of your experience in that activity. Then (1) describe the nature of your intelligence in that activity. Don't worry about neural intelligence so much, because it is often hard for us to assess that in ourselves. To what extent do you rely on experiential intelligence or reflective intelligence in solving problems or meeting challenges in this domain of activity? Then (2) describe your own mindset as it applies to your ability: do you think of your own abilities as fixed or flexible when you encounter a new challenge in this area of activity? How do you know? Explain as clearly and specifically as you can the evidence that causes you to think about your own abilities in the way you do. Finally (3), explain how you think or behave differently in an area where you haven't been so successful or where you believe you have failed to be a successful learner.
Looking ahead:
The first book we will read is Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds by Richard J. Light. If you do not have this book yet, you need to get a copy of your own immediately. The first four chapters will be assigned for next Monday, the rest of the book by the following Wednesday, so you should get started on it no later than this weekend.
Feel free to send me e-mail with your questions about this material.
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01/27/09