Rating your curriculum in terms of meaningful learning

Rate your evolving curriculum unit in terms of the following attributes of meaningful learning. Use this scale:

0 - No inclusion of this attribute

1 - This attribute included just a little

2 - This attribute important to my unit

3 - This attribute absolutely central to my unit

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A. Intentionality: Uses clearly articulated learning goals to design learing tasks and the assessment of learning progress.

B. Content centrality: Aligns learning goals and tasks with the big ideas, essential questions, and methods of inquiry that are central to the discipline.

C. Authentic work: Constructs multifaceted learning tasks that represent the challenges, problems, and thinking skills required outside the classroom.

D. Active inquiry: Uses a disciplined inquiry process for learning that builds on students' own questions and develops habits of mind that foster high levels of thinking.

D. Construction of mental models: Embeds the articulation of cognitive models of content within the learning tasks.

E. Collaborative work: Learning tasks are designed so that students working together adds value to achieving learning outcomes.

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The highest possible score is 18. What did your unit score? What can you do to increase your unit's score? Post your ratings and your response on the course Discussion Board under "Rating my unit - meaningful learning."

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Atttibutes taken from:

Meaningful Learning Using Technology: What Educators Need to Know and Do; Elizabeth A. Ashburn and Robert E. Floden, Editors
Technology, Education--Connections (TEC) Series
Pub Date: April 2006, 240 pages. ISBN: 0807746843