ELLI Results
Lifelong Learning Attributes. Control and treatment group ELLI scores were compared pre-semester to identify any significant differences between the groups before the semester began. There were no significant differences between control and treatment group scores in the pre-semester data collection […]
Last Week – Course Wrap-up Game
Well, the last week has arrived and we lost one day to a snow day, so everything got squeezed into the last day… I wanted to finish with a game to leave them thinking about all the reading strategies we covered […]
ELLI Post Survey and Final Reflections
Students from both BiSc and LL ED took the ELLI post survey and we now await the raw data to start the analysis. Visually, we see the spider diagrams as before/after and for students who spent the first term working […]
Wk 14: ELLI – Learning Relationships + Review GAME!
ELLI: Learning Relationships We flipped things around this week to fit everything in – starting with ELLI and Learning Relationships. We briefly discussed the profile document for this piece of ELLI and then looked at the research in an article […]
Week 13: How to Read an Academic Article + ELLI: Critical Curiosity Part II
We started with a Think-Pair-Share question, “What IS college reading anyway?” We’ve been “doing it” for 13 weeks now… The discussion was pretty good – capturing the complexity, more challenging vocab, meaning-making, connecting to their own experiences, need to work […]
Course Overview
This project pairs LL ED 005 College Reading (which I am teaching) with a content course, BiSc 003 Environmental Science, taught by Dr. Jorge Santiago-Blay. In LL ED 005, students acquire reading and learning skills that they apply to the […]
Week 12 CT: Evaluating Info + ELLI: Intro to Critical Curiosity
Critical Thinking element this week is evaluating information using the CRAAP Test – I purposely waited until the units on water, geology, and energy because of the extended case study on fracking I developed last year – that is both relevant […]
Wk 11 Writing to Learn: Reader Response + ELLI: Strategic Awareness
Today we continued the conversation about using writing in the learning process, and I chose the Reader Response strategy excerpted from U Texas El Paso handout online I shared with students one of my favorite passages from We Make the […]
Week 10 CT – Socratic Questions + Meaning Making Part II Significant Learning
Tuesday we continued with critical thinking skill-building – introduced Socratic questioning as a way to go deeper into the BiSc content (and to help them review). Gave them 15 minutes to read a small section of the BiSc text, complete […]
Week 9: What Should a Study Session Look and Feel Like? + Meaning-Making Part I
So with the input from last week’s reflections, I thought long and hard about what else I could do.. and I finally concluded that I needed them to EXPERIENCE what I really meant by “studying” and “learning” using the activities […]
Week 8 – Critical Thinking Intro + ELLI: Changing & Learning Part 2: Exam 3 Debrief
Critical Thinking Intro + POV (Tuesday) This week we started the next large section of the course – Critical Thinking (CT) – with a general overview of CT using the Paul & Elder (2006) framework – talking about general disposition, […]
Wk 7 ELLI Changing & Learning
Head of our Career Counseling is coming in as the guest to talk about CN ED 100 as a possible spring course for some of them – in depth look at what they want to do in life… He’ll tie […]
Week 7
Today we took a catch our breath break and did a little presentation and where we’ve been and where we’re going. I wanted them to see how far they have come and how much they have done in just 6.5 […]
Week 6 – Tackling Different Question Types
We have class Tuesday – Exam #2 is Wednesday – so we’ll look over quizzes 3 & 4 and do a session like I had as an extra session before exam 1 – looking at every question and learning how […]
Week 5 Toolbox – Study Guides
This week, we concentrated on ramping up the study time as the second exam looms before them. They still have one new chapter to process, as well as LearnSmart, and then to start to put it all together by refreshing […]
ELLI Update – What we’ve done so far
Reflection #1 had students writing an in- and out- of-school learning autobiography Reflection #2 – Students commented on their Learning Profiles using a set of reflection questions & began to reflect on the notion of resilience, thinking of role models […]
Week 4 Toolbox – Memory & Recall with Reciprocal Teaching & Associations
Coming up on BiSc 003 Exam #2 – covers three chapters in the environmental science text… It has been interesting how this has played out… Still doing Cornell Notes with variations to highlight the week’s focus… Last week was Cornell notes + […]
Week 3 Toolbox – Cornell Notes + Vocab Strategies
Students have fallen into bad habits already of waiting til the last minute to do the work – today we emphasized how impossible it is to learn 60 pages of science in one night – and that LearnSmart is meant […]
Just finished week 2!
The first update after a hectic fall start! Just fyi… The entire project description can be found here http://www2.yk.psu.edu/sites/scs15/2013/04/24/center-for-online-innovation-in-learning-coil-research-innovation-grants-rig/ minus the mobile devices – We didn’t get the entire grant, so students are doing the adaptive learning technology on computers… IRB & […]