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2/Draft...Under Construction
Alternative to Performance Task Group Project
Visit http://www.oswego.edu/~burrell/how_people_learn.htm
for the beginning pieces of the assignment.
You will be asked to do the following for assessment purposes:
1. Write a paper using APA format, which answers the
questions as outlined below:
a. Can the new technologies provide more effectiveness to the process, no matter
what the level of preparation?
b. Have we remained at the same point of understanding about teaching that has
been available during the last fifty years?
c. Is this all that is needed to be effective in teaching with new technologies?
d. What are the implications for assessment?
2. Read the book excerpt How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School.
3. This assignment replaces the Performance Task group project. (100 points)
4. Create a rubric which carefully outlines the work you have created. This needs to be either an analytic rubric or a holistic rubric.
5. Create a website. (40 points)
- The website should synthesize the learning from the paper .
- The website should be cohesive in that if any professional came to the website, after reading the article, that professional could be given some concrete advice about how to transform, his or her classroom's assessment practices.
- The site should highlight the important details about the article, and provide some advice about next steps for the new teacher.
- The website should provide the visitor with information about "how people learn" with a focus on how to take the new information from the article and convert ones thinking and teaching practices to accommodate the tenants of the article.
- The website should share important aspects of how people learn as a window to transforming ones teaching and assessment practices.