EDUC P250 Calendar S2019

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1	Week	Date	Day	Unit	Readings (to be read before class)		Topic	Notes

2	1	1/7	1	1 - Setup	The Syllabus		Learning Theory: An Introduction
3	1	1/9	2		Marshik (2015) - 18 minute TED Talk	Bergland (2017)	Miconceptions about Learning; Classroom Policies	Content Check #1 due Sunday night; this always refers to the upcoming Sunday (in this case, 1/13) at 11:59 pm
4	2	1/14	3		Papert (1980)	Taylor (2018) WITH reading guide	Learning Histories
5	2	1/16	4	2 - Cognitive Approaches	First, watch 2 minutes of this crash course video to prep you for the hard-ish reading ahead (From 2:54-4:56)	National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics (2018) (Chapter 4) WITH reading guide	Learning and Cognition	Content Check #2 AND Personal Learning Profile due Sunday night (1/20) at 11:59 pm
6	3	1/21			OPTIONAL: Read MLK's Writing on the Role of Education
7	3	1/23	5		Schwartz, Tsang, & Blair (2016) - E is for Elaboration		Learning and Encoding	Content Check #3 AND Portfolio Context Prospectus due Sunday Night (1/27) at 11:59 pm
8	4	1/28	6		Schwartz, Tsang, & Blair (2016) - G is for Generation		Learning and Retrieval
9	4	1/30	7		Dweck (TED Talk)	Schwartz, Tsang, & Blair (2016) - Y is for Yes I Can (Just read the "Risks" section, page 325-326)	Learning and Mindsets	Content Check #4
10	5	2/4	8		Aubrey & Riley (2019) -- pp. 40-43 (note: skip the first four paragraphs on page 41 [restart when you see "As a genetic..."]).	Rose (2012)	Learning and Schema
11	5	2/6	9		No Reading!		Design Critique: Cognition	Content Check #5
12	6	2/11	10	3 - Sociocultural Approaches	Vygotsky (1978) - pp. 84-88. Come to class ready to answer: what is the Zone of Proximal Development?		Learning in Social and Cultural Contexts
13	6	2/13	11		Brown, Collins, & Duguid (1989) - pp. 32-36 WITH reading guide		Situated Learning	Content Check #6 AND Cognitive Approaches Application Paper due Sunday night (2/17) at 11:59 pm
14	7	2/18	12		Nasir & Cooks (2009) WITH reading guide		Learning in the "Wild"
15	7	2/20	13		Brown, Collins, & Duguid (1989) - pp. 37-40 WITH reading guide		Learning Through Cognitive Apprenticeship	Content Check #7
16	8	2/25	14		Peppler & Bender (2013)	Peppler, Keune, & Whiting (2018)	Learning and Making (Exemplar)	Class in the MILL (Room 2260)
17	8	2/27	15		Danish & Gresalfi (2018) - pp. 34-37 (stop when you see "However, the two perspectives can come together in the same work. For example, a project by Enyedy and colleagues...")	Ebbers (2017) - pp. 709-710 (start when you see "Development of Situated Learning Model" and stop when you see "Influence of Situated Learning")	Review: Sociocultural Theories	Content Check #8; Note that today is the last day you can submit a sociocultural reading response.
18	9	3/4	16		No Reading!		Design Critique: Sociocultual Theories
19	9	3/6	17		Popham (2005)	Straus (2015)	Learning and Assessment: Cognitive v. Sociocultural Theories	Content Check #9 AND Sociocultural Approaches Application Paper Due Sunday Night (3/10) at 11:59 pm; 3/10 is Auto W Day
20	10	3/11			Spring Break - Live a little!
21	10	3/13			Spring Break - Live a little!
22	11	3/18	18	4 - Equity-Oriented Approaches	UNICEF (1989) - Preamble, Article 1, Article 23, Article 28-30 AND Vossoughi (2015) WITH Reading Guide (Day 1 - Equity Approaches Reading Guide)		Learning and Educational Dignity
23	11	3/20	19		Paris (2012) - pp. 93 - 94 (stop when you see "This very brief description") WITH Reading Guide (Paris Reading Guide)		Learning and Deficit, Difference, or Resource approaches	Content Check #10
24	12	3/25	20		Conversation with Claude Steele on stereotype threat (8 minutes)	Brundin (2018)	Learning and Identity	Come to class thinking about the question: WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IDENTITY AND LEARNING?
25	12	3/27	21		Gutiérrez & Rogoff (2003) - pp. 19-21 (stop when you see "Toward a Cultural-Historical Way to Describe Cultural Regularities") WITH Reading Guide		Learning and Culture	Content Check #11
26	13	4/1	22		Thurber & Bandy (2018) - Read the section "Framing Access" and the section "Strategies for Creating Accessible Learning Environments" (including all 5 subsections)	Centre for Excellence in Universal Design (nd) - Look at these pretty pictures and words, it will take you literally 5 minutes. Come to class prepared to answer the questions: when is a space accessible? what are barriers to participation in a space?	Learning and Dis/ability
27	13	4/3	23		Vossoughi & Gutierrez (2017) - pp. 140 - 145		Critical Learning	Content Check #12
28	14	4/8	24		No Reading!		Design Critique: Equity Approaches
29	14	4/10	25	5 - Student Choice	McDermott (1997) - pp. 124 - 128 (start when you see "Stages in the Explanation of School Failure, 1960-1997; stop when you see "These descriptions circumscribe the activities...")		Student Choice: Schools and School Failure	Content Check #13 due Sunday Night; NOTE: Equity Paper due Friday Night (4/12) at 11:59 pm; I know this is off schedule but I need the extra grading days
30	15	4/15	26		Gresalfi (2018)	Georgen, Danish, Uttamchandani, Craig, & Lane (2019)	Student Choice: Games and Learning
31	15	4/17	27		Uttamchandani (under review)		Student Choice: Learning Futures	Content Check #14
32	16	4/22	28	6 - Closings	Read the final portfolio prompt. Bring your old papers with feedback to class (either on a laptop or printed out) so that we can do some workshopping with them.		Portfolio Sharing & Workshopping
33	16	4/24	29	6 - Closings	Read "Why We Must Stop Relying on Student Ratings of Teaching" by Michelle Falkoff		Reflection	Content Check #15
34	17				Final Portfolio Due - Friday, May 3, at 12:15 pm
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