CHP 8

What makes for engaging and effective design challenge is a sense of competetion betweent he students. There are many different ways of design such as writing and computer software, but also the students are not limited because their creativity is the only thing to hold them back. 1. Identify a need or oppurtunity, 2. Generate a design, 3. Plan and make a solution, 4. Evaluate and reflect on solution. (pg. 170)

The first way to keep students interested is to allow them to work on things that serve as a particular interest to the student. This is the most important thought in conjunction with keeping students researching on ways to improve their skills. The text speaks of iStopMotion which is a piece of technology that makes students want to desing even more.

Teachers act as designers for sure when they are constructing their lesson plans. Lesson plans are a design that is important to the class everyday. Teachers are desginers in how they may produce the lecture such as with a power point presentation. Techaers use desinging everyday, and it is important that this be a skill that each teacher can maximize the oppurtunity. YEs teachers do revise after teaching because they know what did and did not work and so on. And yes teachers can find ideas in tectbooks and incorporate it into their class as they see fit, just as a way to improve the success in their classroom.

MIDTERM REACTIONS

After taking the midterm I guess it was about right. All the questions were relevant to the material and not strange because I had seen them when I studied. The hard part about the test was that the questions were open-ended so no right or wrong answer seemed justified. I like this sort of test generally I just hope that I did not take the questions correctly. Anyways I was pleased with the test and feel like I did fine.

After looking at the power point rules I think they are relevant to our presentations. Most of the rules are common sense, but likewise it is important to remeber them while presenting. A couple of the rules serve as great tips and reminders as we get ready to present next week. I will use these in my time next week, and I expect that this incororation of material will help to improve my grade as well.

Little John, #14