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Launched in Fall 2007, Practical Pedagogy Research is a brand new arm of the group. Its mission is to provide a forum for, support for and an organizational platform for graduate student classroom-based research. Our understanding of research includes the informal data gathering and feedback collection that teachers use for self-assessment and to develop new curricula and pedagogies for their own use, as well as research that contributes to the scholarship of teaching and learning both within a discipline and across disciplines.
PPR PANEL PRESENTATION AT COMPUTERS AND WRITING 2009 June 16-19 at the University of California, Davis "Teaching
Sustainable Online Research Practices Across the Curriculum: The Q6C
Solution" Watch for our spring Practical
Pedagogy workshop on the Q6C solution.
PPR POSTER PRESENTATION AT
2008 CIDR TEACHING AND LEARNING SYMPOSIUM Click here for
more information about the symposium Tuesday, May 6:
2:30-4:30, HUB Ballroom "Across the Disciplines: Strategies for
Teaching Cyber-Savvy" Tim
Wright, History
Katherine Deibel, CS Sarah Read, English POSTER
INTRODUCTION The Web: An information
Source The growth of the World Wide Web as an
information resource is pervasive, both inside and outside of the
academic world. Google and Wikipedia have become 21st-century reference
portals and the ease of posting material on the web has lead to a
dizzying array of "sources" of widely disparate quality and usefulness.
Like it or not, the web is usually the first stop for
students--regardless of discipline--or consumers looking for
information. However, while the amount
of information available online continues to grow, students' and
others' ability to critically assess those sources has lagged behind.
Novice information users are often encouraged to use checklists or
rubrics to judge the "accuracy" or "reliability" of a website and its
contents even though those checklists often provide misleading results
or fail to take the students to the next step: evaluation and
conclusion. Solution The Q6C approach provides
instructors with guidelines on constructing and integrating web
assignments that give students a process that allows them to become
more thoughtful online information consumers--to become cyber-savvy. Drawing on interdisciplinary research
studies, our solution offers a holistic approach to online information
analysis that takes learners beyond the checklist and through a
process--the Q6C process--that
shows how to critically approach most online information in a way that
will be useful in their coursework and, importantly, long after they
earn their degree. For more materials about the Q6C process
contact the authors: Past Events FIRST WINTER QUARTER MEETING
Tuesday, January 15:
5pm, Suzzallo Coffee
PP Research will meet to continue our conversation about Teaching and Technology. In particular we will continue to discuss Tim Wright's (History) project proposal "Teaching Effective Web Assessment." All welcome from all disciplines. PLANNING AND
ENVISIONING
MEETING FOR PP RESEARCH 2007 CIDR TA CONFERENCE ON TEACHING AND
LEARNING
Monday, September 17: 2:45pm, Thompson 202 "Building Community Around Your Teaching Within Your Department and Across Campus" Many TAs discuss and share teaching practices with other TAs to find peer support and to refine their teaching strategies. These teaching communities can also be places to develop and share informal or scholarly classroom-based research about teaching and learning. This panel session introduces participants to several teaching communities created by and for graduate students from across the university. Participants might join these communities, use them as models for creating similar groups, or identify future collaborators for doing teaching-focused research. Panel participants represent Industrial Engineering, English, Oceanography, Communication and Practical Pedagogy. Click here for the conference home page.
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