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 & […]