Aug
2013
Bonus points for ideas?
In class last week (Week 2), Georgina posed an excellent question: if I write a good blog post explaining an idea from one of the readings, and it helps someone else understand that idea better, will I get 2 bonus marks? A very good question. So far, the bonus tasks are being treated as responses to an imaginary FAQ in the form of a tutorial, which only really rewards the tech-savvy students. So what about those students whose strengths lie in research and thinking through ideas presented in the course? A system for measuring these skills will hopefully be implemented when we get to doing the wikis. For now, I’d like to point out the blog post that sparked this conversation, in which Georgina uses the metaphor of building a house to help explain what she thinks double-loop learning is.