The learning process will work best if you do not review parts 4 & 5 of a chapter until after the corresponding session.
The intended template for each chapter:
1.
Introduce simple theme(s), building on previous sessions
1b. amplified by mini-lecture (which might include interactive activity)
2. Precis of
reading with directions about reading the full work
3.
Activity so students can work with simple theme, but then
3b. see its shortcomings
4.
Synthesis and extensions: notes summarizing themes in more complex formulation
4b. including notes on pedagogical issues
5.
Connections and resources, e.g., annotations to additional readings
5b. Online forum, through which students can provide suggestions and resources for revising the chapter
5c. Adaptation of themes from the chapter to students' own projects of learning about or engaging with biology in its social context: Suggestions for how to do that.
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Synthesis of chapters)
Introduction
Session 2
PBL
Session 3
Interpreting Ideas of Nature
Session 4
originstories
Session 5
darwinorigin
Session 6
If you post to the
blog suggestions for revision , I will forward them to Douglas Allchin, the author of the Beriberi case.
For your installment on this session, adopt or adapt some of the themes implied by the Reflection questions that Allchin lists at the end, or adapt/adopt the case-based learning mode.
Session 7
developmentmetaphors
Session 8
pellagra
Session 9
IQdebate
Session 10
geneticscreening
Session 11
IPgeneenvironment
