The Third Engaging Problem: Do It

Be sure you have your project approved via email to the instructor before you spend a lot of time on it.

Option One: Work with an actual teacher (client)

You have just been given an opportunity to partner with a teacher/professor/business partner in creating, executing, and evaluating an educational unit / learning experience. This opportunity will allow you to use the world of information and technology to enhance the learning experience. You will also have the opportunity to incorporate the strategies of information literacy into the experience. You have promised your partner that the experience together will be so remarkably superior to what that person could have done alone; that this experience will be a trend setter - a model of what a creative partnership can accomplish in terms of student learning.

Instructions:

• Bribe one or several partners into working with you on this project.

• Create with your partner(s) your own engaging problem for a quality educational experience. You should design and carry out (if possible) your project. The project plan must be complete including objectives, activities, materials, information literacy module, technologies to be used, and evaluative strategies. For school library media teachers, you will begin with CA state standards out of which the learning experience will be developed.

• Design an information literacy component of each unit. This can be done in two ways - either as one component of the experience, or using the information literacy model as the total process model for the learning experience.

• Do your work and keep a log of the process.

• As a report of the work, create a project/portfolio of the experience that does these things:

a. shows the project

b. contains a log of the process

c. reflects upon the project and the process 

• Be sure that your project could be shown to a prospective employer as an example of what you know and are able to do.

• The instructor prefers that you use one of the model techniques demonstrated in class as the design of the unit; however, the design must fit the original goals of teaching and learning.

Option Two: Work with a partner in the class

• Create a collaborative team of no more than three partners.

• Create together an educational experience for a target audience such as a LibraryQuest (webquest using all types of resources), a staff training workshop, a term paper workshop, a professional inservice workshop, a unit of instruction, or a home school independent learning quest, etc. The project plan must be complete and include objectives, activities, materials, information literacy module, technologies to be used, and evaluative strategies.

• Design an information literacy component of each unit. This can be done in two ways - either as one component of the experience, or using the information literacy model as the total process model for the learning experience. Note, if you use the info lit model as the total design, be sure theat there is a major topic being researched by the group as a whole. If a professor, for example, just told the students to research any topic they were interested in, that signals to the students that a plagiaristic paper is in order.

• Do your work and keep a log of the process.

• As a report of the work, create a project/portfolio of the experience that does these things:

a. shows the project

b. contains a log of the process

c. reflects upon the project and the process 

• Be sure that your project could be shown to a prospective employer as an example of what you know and are able to do.

• The instructor prefers that you use one of the model techniques demonstrated in class as the design of the unit, however, the design must fit the original goals of teaching and learning.

 

In either case, your project can be as long as you need it to be - not restricted to one or two pages as were the transformations.

 

Be sure that the final contains the actual learning unit and write a log of the process. Upload the final to Angel.