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Mth 272
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I understand that the orientation assignments must be submitted in the text box on the bottom of the form where the questions are located, but I am wondering if I should used the Submit Work Form that is found on the commonly used forms link on the course homepage to submit those assignments. On my portfolio, all I see is a link to the very first assignment I completed, but I do not see links to the two assignments after that that I already submitted.
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Do the orientation assignments need to be submitted using the submit work form located on the commonly used forms link on the course homepage?
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If a document is part of a form you should use that form to submit it.
However anything you submitted with your correct email address should be posted.
You should go ahead and resubmit anything that isn't posted. If you no longer have the document, let me know when you submitted it and I can try to locate it.
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Task: `q003. You won't fully understand the sequencing of topics and activities, or the reasons for
the sequencing, until you have worked through a number of assignments.
Assumptions:
It is unrealistic to suppose that the majority of students in a course are capable, without prior
preparation, of reading, extracting meaning from and solving problems in a text written at a level
appropriate to the course.
having the topic talked to a class in a lecture is generally ineffective for the majority of the class
students sharing ideas with and solving problems in conjunction with other students can be very
helpful, given a group of students who have already engaged and experienced the topic (... toolkits
...)
it takes time for stuff to sink in, an idea the instructor believes to have for centuries been obvious
to individuals with rigorous content knowledge, to now be increasingly supported by the rapidly
advancing field of neurobiology, but not to have filtered down to the 'field' of education
if the goal of the course is integrated understanding and mastery, it is not possible to break the
learning of this subject into a linear series of topics, with one topic mastered before moving on to
the next
Typically you will be introduced to a topic through a sequenced set of questions (the 'qa'), in which
you will
Answer a series of questions, based on knowledge from prerequisite courses or from earlier in this
course, without having been first 'taught' how to answer the questions. The purpose is to 'engage your
brain' on the topic and provide you with a context for later activities.
Solve, take notes on and generally understand a sequenced series of worked-out problems (the
Introductory Problem Sets) illustrating the application of the topic, along with others.
Apply the ideas to one or more actual, hands-on physical systems, typically setting the system up,
taking data, analyzing results and answering questions.
Read Class Notes documents which may address any combination of selected previous, current and future
topics, and/or view video-linked versions of the same.
Read the associated 'material' in the text and solve text problems. The text is the 'last word' on a
topic, not the first. By the time you read about the topic in the text, you will already know quite a
bit about it through having engaged and experienced it. The text is intended as the final document for
the topic, presenting it in clear relation to others.
These activities can span a number of assignments, so that by end of the process the topic will have
had time to percolate and sink in.
The main thing you need to understand about this is that there are dozens of topics in your course,
each of which can require days or weeks to develop. The result is that at any time you will
simultaneously be developing and working on a number of topics.
Again you aren't expected to completely understand the assumptions and the sequencing. However give a
short synopsis of what you do understand.
**** Your response (insert your response beginning in the next line; the next line is blank and
doesn't include the #$... prompt):
I understand that this course will require that I learn many different topics at once, which may
include material that should have already been learned in previous courses. It may take says to sink it
and that is why it is important to devote an adequete amount of time to studying these concepts. It is
important to take notes and review the class material on the section in order to expand my learning.
#$&* (your response should have gone on the line above this one)
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