Time to get creative: Thinking about class-based problems/questions.
cc:link In using TBL, one of the big challenges that we face this semester is selecting and developing significant problems to discuss in class. As we will learn, this is a difficult challenge, one that requires creativity, reverse engineering, and focused design on "what do we want the students to be able to do at the end of the session that they couldn't do before?" This is a challenge that we will discuss throughout this class collectively, as your teams will be required to design significant problems. Those significant problems will then be used in class to generate discourse. As we work on these problems, we should not only be working to advance our understanding, but we should be critiquing the problem itself. For example, this week I have designed a problem for us to discuss in regards to our readings about TBL. After our discourse, I will ask you to use the following criteria/questions to critique that problem. Is the problem important, authentic, an...
