1. ED4001 Education for Change
Seminar 10
More on ideas about Learning
ED4001 Education for Change

2. Today’s Session Today’s seminar Mini module evaluation
Tutorials – must book
Education news
Assignment 1
Discussing marks / feedback
Learning from assessment 1 for next assessment
Reflections on Bronfenbrenner
Assessment 2
Group tutorials in class
Academic writing
Mini module evaluation
Module so far quiz

3. Assessment 2 Understanding your marks – me using MASUS What learning / action will you carry forward from this assessment to your next? Degree Classifications Below 40 - fail 40-49% 3rd 50-59% % plus first All assessments from all modules need to be passed It is possible to resit fails in the summer
Assignment 1

4. Some General feedback on assessment 1
The strengths:
Taking on ‘big ideas’
Understanding module content and ideas and using them in the essay.
Using the correct academic style with clarity and confidence.
Maintaining a formal academic voice throughout the essay.
Organising and supporting the arguments for the change/s with reading in most sections.
Making use of more reading than the required items from Minerva.
Correct referencing in text and bibliography
The weaknesses:
Incorrect referencing in text and / or bibliography
Lack of confidence with academic writing
Over reliance on news sources.
Not using reading provided on Minerva
Use of conversational language.
Unsubstantiated statements / comments.
Tendency towards overstatement.
Factual details not always correct
Not using full word length
Assignment 1

6. Reflecting on reading and lecture
Your ecological systems – where do you fit?
‘microsystem’ all the environments a learner inhabits, together with the face-to-face interactions within those environments. Examples include the home, the family and language used.
‘mesosystems’ - interaction between two or more systems which influence the learner directly. Examples include: how and whether an education setting values and builds positive home/school relationships.
‘Exosystem’ systems refer to the environments and relationships which the child does not experience first hand, but which have an indirect influence on them. Examples are: opportunities for employment in the locality or parents’ working hours.
The broadest context is the ‘macrosystem’ in which all the other systems are embedded. Every person is a part of a wider political, economic, social and cultural setting which influences the world of individual learners.
DRAW YOUR OWN ECOLOGY!
Reflecting on reading and lecture

7. Assessment two - structure
Ensure you use correct Harvard Referencing and Academic English – look at examples and resources we have shown you to help with this, and your feedback from essay 1.
Introduction
Give a brief introduction to what are you going to cover in this essay. Introduce some relevant reading.
Which piece of writing are you considering and how will you analyse that piece of writing?
A concise summary of the paper / learning theories
Write a concise summary of the key points in your chosen piece of writing.
Make use of reading to support the key points.
Discuss the theories of learning which are relevant to the piece of writing.

8. The trustworthiness of the research
Apply Lincoln and Guba’s trustworthiness structure to the piece of writing.
Credibility .. Have the researchers spent sufficient time in the field to learn or understand the culture, social setting, and general context the research?  Is there evidence of rapport and trust between the researchers and the participants?
Transferability .. could the findings of this inquiry transfer beyond the bounds of the project?
Dependability .. are findings are consistent and could they be repeated elsewhere?
Confirmability .. do the findings emerge from the data and not from the predispositions bias of the researcher?‘
Conclusion
Summarise your key conclusions about the piece of writing
What implications do the results have for education? 

9. Reflecting on Learning
Assignment 2 – Peer / Group Q and A
Discuss any issues you have with assessment 2
List them as a group
Discuss with Jim as he comes round each table
Reflecting on Learning

10. Useful weblinks
Edstudiesbathspa – where I keep all the Ed4001 resources All the weblinks for news items etc A new, free study skills website Baxter Magolda’s book .. Some of it missing, but more to read than chapter 1