Stuart+Morse+-+Complex+Thinking

1) Students tend to focus on only the answer and not the thought process behind how they arrived at that answer or why the information they are learning is important.

2) Since I am not sure what this course is going to teach, I do not have any specific goals yet. My overall goal is to imporve my knowledge of digital tools and how to effectively use them to deliver instruction.

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__**1.2.1 Response to Examining Good Instructional Design:**__ I agree with the overall presentation in terms of creating quality instructional design. The only thing that I think is missing (probably assumed) was to make sure that the information is accessable to our target audience. Accessability means more than just being able to navigate to the correct page, it also means that they students are able to understand the information and relate the information to prior knowledge.

__1.3.1__"//What are characteristics of project based learning that you saw in the video?"// //Collaborative learning. Testing and revision. Self-analysis. Working with a variety of different resources.// Famine Project - This seems to be a fairly interesting project. It requires the students to think about causes and solutions to a very complex and changing problem of how to deal with famine. The project meets all the recomened characteristics as suggested by the Checklist. I see only two issues, none of which should stop one from going forward with this as a PBL assignment. First, the solutions to famine are incredibly diverse and need to be specifically tailored to the economic, social, government, trade policy, and natural weather / terrain of a given area. Often, solutions are simply not possible without introduction of solutions that have an unceratin outcome (such as military intervention). Further, since a solution may be dependent on the success of a endeavor that may or may not work, one break in the chain causes the entire solution to be scrapped. 2nd, issues of morality, which many people see differently, such as whether or not one has an obligation to help those in need //regardless// of ones actions that landed them in the situation to begin with, may complicate the solution and prevent concensus. Other than those concerns, I think it is an excellent PBL.
 * __1.3.3 Response to Looking at Projects:__**

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 * Concerns || Solutions ||
 * Holding individual students accountable || Peer evaluation - teacher monitoring - assign portions of the overall project to specific members ||
 * Ensuring that collaboration takes place || Teacher interviews students ||

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