PPT Slide
Support student expectations and desires (certainty and comfort level)
- No penalty for errors. Sharing questions, errors and lessons learned is explicitly valued and rewarded.
- Absolute grading scale
- Iterated assignments (learning becomes a conversation—no penalty for missing the mark the first time—especially critical for brand-new areas of endeavor where understanding is ‘revolutionary’ rather than incremental)
- Individualized (original) content
- Teaching to the “detect”—no guessing about credit, rules for grading.
Encouraging outstanding levels of learning, challenge
- Shared explicitly the meta-level goal of mastery of learning to learn, using the computer
- Problem-focused, and analysis approach—learning to frame, and then using technology to solve problems
- Encourage application to situations of interest to students, and related to their real needs
- Set the bar “high”—canned assignments worth a “C”, and had to be perfect for any credit at all