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Students will write a paper in which they report on a virtual discussion panel to be held between proponents of different theoretical models of learning and instructional design principles or teaching methods. This paper will be based on several assigned readings (to be found on Canvas) by several major figures representing different teaching paradigms in the field.
Acting as the script-writer, interviewer, reporter, and discussant, students will interview the panelists as a group by asking them questions about their views of human learning (what is most important to them in their theory and how they account for human learning). The purpose of this assignment is to have students compare and contrast the theoretical perspectives and practices of these different figures. As the panelist, students should ask questions directly of the panelists, report their responses, encourage discussion among the panelists through clarifying comments and follow-up questions, and serving as the discussant who summarizes the various points of view and offers opinions about the topic at the end of the author panel session.
The paper should be written as a transcript of this panel discussion (as a script for a play would be written). Use the Word document template that you can download by clicking here Download clicking here. This template numbers the lines and makes communicating feedback to you easier. This paper will be due after a collective discussion of each of the papers has been held on Yellowdig. Students can use that discussion to sharpen their ideas for the content for their paper.
Excluding the title page and references (this is not necessary), your paper should be 6 to 7 pages long (double-spaced). In this paper, my objective for you is to describe the four different models as accurately as possible. I do not want you to evaluate the models at all. I just want you to use this as an opportunity to practice expressing the authors’ points of view as accurately as possible. A properly informed opinion should be able to express all the relevant points of view accurately before any choices are made. The 20th-Century psychologist Carl Rogers is reputed to have said that you should be able to express your interlocutor’s opinion in a way that they find acceptable when you are in a disagreement (I’m paraphrasing his point). I think that there is a deep truth here that applies to discussing competing perspectives on theories of learning. Your choice of a particular theoretical orientation will be stronger if you carefully study the alternatives. Who knows? Maybe you will change your mind. I did! I will evaluate your paper based on how accurately you describe the perspectives, not based on your evaluation of them. If there are things that are unclear, feel free to raise questions or make comments on Yellowdig so that we can discuss them.
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