AY 375 Fall 2013: Thirteenth Day Plan

Today we'll discuss the “hidden curriculum” of physics and astronomy courses and work on the Design-A-Section assignment.

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Open the floor up for general questions and sharing about how sections are going. Some questions include:

• What did you do?
• How did you implement your activities?
• What worked?
• What didn't work?
• What would you do differently?
• How did you assess learning?
• Did you receive any unexpected questions/reactions/etc.?
• Did anything unexpected happen?
• What were you thinking about while you were running section? Any moments of panic?

Share in pairs what you have done thus far on your design-a-section assignment. Discuss the topic you've chosen, your learning objectives, and your activity ideas. Give your partner feedback on whether their activities and assessment techniques seem well-matched to their learning objectives.

1. Complete the second milestone of Design-A-Section.
2. Watch a Ted talk by Stuart Firestein on the role of ignorance in science and how it might be incorporated into the classroom: http://www.ted.com/talks/stuart_firestein_the_pursuit_of_ignorance.html
3. Final round of taping continues. This time meeting with Aaron or I is optional. You must fill out the worksheet (it's been slightly tweaked) and hand it in next week.