We will meet in room MB-11 at 1:00 p.m.
This week is week 2 of the spring semester. You should have submitted your weekly update for week 1 by yesterday.
You should have submitted before class today:
1. Your responses to the Student Questionnaire and Learning Inventory.
2. An e-mail response to question at the conclusion of Introduction to All the Rest.
3. Your personal introductions, posted on your Blackboard pages.
You should bring with you to class today the following writing:
1. A printed copy of your responses to the Learning Inventory.
2. A reflection paper on Thinking About Being a Student. You should have responded 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.
Complete the following reading by Wednesday:
Light 1, 2, and 3.
Writing to be submitted by Wednesday:
A reflection paper on Light 1, 2, and 3. In this paper, discuss what you think are the most important ideas in these chapters and explain why they are important. Give examples from your own experience or observations to support your claims. Feel free to disagree with the author and to modify the suggestions he makes, but give your reasons when you do. Whenever you refer to the text, give the page number in parentheses, whether you quote it directly or not. Bring two paper copies to class.
Reminder. You should have completed the following reading by today:
1. Introduction to All the Rest
2. The Rest of the Introduction
7. Thinking About Being a Student
Looking ahead:
We will now begin to read and discuss the first book assigned for this semester, Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds by Richard J. Light. In future references to this book, and in the calendar syllabus, I will refer to the book by the author's last name. So I will refer to the first chapter of this book as "Light 1." And I will follow the same procedure with the other books we read this semester: McHenry and Lewis. (Our print handbook, of course, I will abbreviate "K&M.")
Your first reflection paper on Light will be due next Wednesday. We will begin the discussion in the Blackboard Discussion Board this Friday. Please return to the Discussion Board often over the next several days.
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