Summer Course Schedule
Week 1
Context and Culture
Monday
Familiarize yourself with the course materials and both the main course website and the Blackboard site
Read How Do I Get My Students Over Their Alternative Conceptions (Misconceptions) for Learning?
Read How People Learn Chapter 2
Types of Learning and the Developing Brain
Tuesday
Read How People Learn Chapter 3
Add an entry to Week 1 Journal reflections on readings and videos using prompts in syllabus
Wednesday
Watch videos on Pavlov, Thorndike, Watson, Skinner and Bandura
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Reflecting on your practice
Thursday and Friday - Happy 4th of July!
Week 2
Processes that Support Learning
Monday
Watch Video Blog
Read How People Learn Chapter 4
Tuesday
Watch "Working Together to Develop Powerful Thinkers and Learners" by Ron Ritchhart
Read Using Praise to Enhance Student Resilience and Learning Outcomes
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Knowledge and Reasoning
Wednesday
Read How People Learn Chapter 5
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Thursday
Watch Daniel Schwartz "Learning to perceive, telling too soon."
Read Practice for Knowledge Acquisition (Not Drill and Kill)
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Reflecting on your practice
Friday Reflect in Week 2 Journal on Blackboard about how what we have covered so far might inform your practice
Week 3
Motivation to Learn
Monday
Read How People Learn Chapter 6
Watch Week 3 Videoblog Interventions to change outcome of obedience studies
Tuesday
Read Developing Responsible and Autonomous Learners: A Key to Motivating Students
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Implications for Learning in School
Wednesday
Read How People Learn Chapter 7
Watch Asch conformity video and the Stanford Prison Experiment
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Thursday
Watch Milgram Obedience study.
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Reflecting on your practice
Friday
Reflect in Week 3 Journal on Blackboard about how what we have covered so far might inform your practice
Week 4
Digital Technology
Monday
Read How People Learn Chapter 8
Watch Michael Bodekaer Virtual Labs will Revolutionize Science Classes
Tuesday
Read Using Technology to Captivate Learners: New research from psychologists
Add an entry to Week 4 Journal reflections on readings and videos using prompts in syllabus
Learning Across the Lifespan
Wednesday
Read How People Learn Chapter 9
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Thursday
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Reflecting on your practice
Friday
Reflect in Week 4 Journal on Blackboard about how what we have covered so far might inform your practice
Week 5
Designing Learning Environments
Monday
Read How People Learn Chapter 10
Tuesday
Watch video on the Adolescent Brain
Read Using Classroom Data to Give Systematic Feedback to Students to Improve Learning
Read and listen to The Teen Brain: Its Just Not Grown Up Yet
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Continuous Learning Strategies
Wednesday
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Thursday
Watch "The New Science of Learning: Concepts and Strategies for Changing the Way we Teach" presented by Todd Zakrajsek.
Add an entry to Week 5 Journal reflections on readings and videos using prompts in syllabus
Reflecting on your practice
Friday
Reflect in Week 5 Journal on Blackboard about how what we have covered so far might inform your practice