MIDTERM+EXAM+brainstorming

=Midterm Exam Brainstorming Page=

You have just created the new class: **educw200.** For students to enroll in this class, they will need both the **enrollment password** you have chosen and the unique **class ID** generated by Turnitin:
 * || class ID: || **2663458** ||
 * enrollment password: || **w200** || ||

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Based on our discussions about the nature of the midterm exam, the syllabus and how we made the final exam last semester, please put your ideas for questions and the content of the midterm exam on this page. This task needs to be completed by Friday so we can move forward in making the exam.

1. How - if at all - has what you  have learned about the proliferation of digital technology and communication affected your views about who and how you will teach? Be sure to include specific references to course topics.

2. Towards which NETS standard have you seen the most personal growth so far in w200. Provide specific examples, evidence, or course content that supports your position.

3. Write a one-paragraph description of w200 for the IU Course Catalog.

4. What ideas from the course stand out or have been the most memorable/valuable for you so far?

5. About what concept/idea would you most like to argue/disagree with one of your instructors about? Provide examples and evidence to support your case.

6. Agree or disagree with the following statement, providing examples, evidence, and/or course material to support your answer: "Production tasks offer many "non-curricular" learning benefits for students (collaboration, organization, planning, decision-making, etc), but the trade offs are 1) simpler, lower-level learning on the curriculum itself and 2) efficiency and time."

7. Agree or disagree with the following statement, providing examples, evidence, and/or course material to support your answer: "Teaching digital natives and teaching digital immigrants may as well be two different professions all together. In time, my job as a teacher will not resemble my own teachers' jobs in the least."

8. Agree or disagree with the following statement, providing examples, evidence, and/or course material to support your answer: "Asynchronous communication is great in my personal life, but I probably won't use it much with my students."

9. Agree or disagree with the following statement from the "Learning to Change, Changing to Learn" video, providing examples, evidence, and/or course material to support your answer:

  “Its not about memorizing facts, but do you know how to find information, do you know how to validate it, do you know how to synthesize it, do you know how to communicate it, do you know how to collaborate with it, do you know how to problem solve with it? THOSE are the new 21st century literacies.” 10. How do the NETS standards relate to the statement made in question #9?

11. Think about your experience creating the digital story. If you were to have your students create digital stories as a production activity, what are three things you would do make this activity go smoothly?

12. List five technology tools that can help you be more productive (and save you time!) as a teacher.

* I think these midterm questions are good. However, I 've just concerned about students' study load. In unit 2, they need to submt at least artifact proposal, artifact, lecture worksheet, and lab workout. Professional development and e-portfolio draft are also needed to turn in Unit 2. I don't have any specific way but I think it would be better to reduce midterm items than to ask them a long paper with 12 questions. This is just our opinion ^^ (Ja-Ok & Minjing).