Foundations and Assessment of Education/Edition 1/Foundations Table of Contents/Chapter 13/Chapter FAQ/Peer Review One

What is project-based learning?

Wikipedia defines "project-based learning"(edit: I would just bold this and drop the quotations or use parentheticals) as "the use of classroom projects, intended to bring about deep learning, where students use technology and inquiry to engage with issues and questions that are relevant to their lives. These classroom projects are used to assess student's subject matter competence compared to traditional testing." ("Project Based Learning", "Definition", para. 1)

What is Web 2.0?

""Web 2.0" (edit: again– I'd just bold) refers to what is perceived as a second generation of web development and web design. It is characterised (edit: characterized, though I'm inclined to believe characterised is the British spelling– much like realize and realise.) as facilitating communication, information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. It has led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and web applications. Examples include social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs and folksonomies." ("Web 2.0", "Definition", para. 1) What is a "Wikiversity"?

According to a definition from Wikipedia.org, a Wikiversity (edit: bold maybe?) is an online community that allows users can find and share information, answers to questions, and general knowledge. ("Wikiversity", "Definition", para. 1)

How are student written texts created?

Students, along with teachers or professors, come together to write a text which others can read and learn from. The students are learning while they teach. The students do not have the purchase expensive textbooks and it has been proven very effective. They are able to peer-review each other to get the best possible text. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Foundations_and_Assessment_of_Education/Edition_1/Foundations_Table_of_Contents/Chapter_13/Content_Articles/13.3.1

What is a virtual school?

"The most accepted definition of a virtual school is an entity approved by a state or governing body that offers courses through distance delivery â most commonly using the Internet." (Barbour & Reeves, 2008, p. 402)

There are many benefits from virtual schooling, such as better access, positive learning opportunities, more flexibility and better efficiency (Barbour & Reeves, 2008)

"What does the term 'digital natives' mean and can our classrooms keep up with them?"

Digital natives, or the "Net generation" are the youth of our society that have been using technology all their lives. This gives them better technical skills and learning preferences geared to a digital age.

However, traditional education will not be adequate to support digital natives. Education reform is needed to keep up with the ever-changing "Net generation"

Multiple Choice Questions

 * 1) What does each question assess: knowledge or reasoning (application of knowledge)?
 * 2) Question 1 knowledge
 * 3) Question 2 knowledge
 * 4) Question 3 reasoning
 * 5) Question 4 reasoning

Answer the following questions about the multiple-choice questions.


 * 1) Are there 4 multiple-choice questions? Yes
 * 2) Do they each have four answer choices (A-D)? Yes
 * 3) Is there a single correct (not opinion-based) answer for each question? Yes
 * 4) Do the questions assess the learning target? Yes
 * 5) Are the questions appropriate and reasonable (not too easy and not too difficult)? Yes
 * 6) Are the foils (the response options that are NOT the answer) reasonable i.e. they are not very obviously incorrect answers?  
 * 7) Are the response options listed in alphabetical order? Yep
 * 8) Are correct answers provided and listed BELOW all the questions? Yeppers.

Please make a comment about the multiple-choice questions.

Comment: '''These are pretty well-done. I did intentional foils on mine to tie in with the humor I tried to present, and it looks as if that could be problematic– but these are pretty straight forward and understandable.'''

Part 2 - Ratings
LIST and EXPLAIN your rating for each of the four criteria.

 Importance:
 * I rated this article 4 for importance because... I've no issue really on the content itself, only that I wish it had been expanded a bit. It needs to encompass a bit more if possible.

Interest:
 * I rated this article 4 on interest because... The visual at the top was pretty sweet. The sidebar correlates with letting the reader explore a particular branch more. But there could've been more.

Credibility:
 * I rated this article 5 for credibility because... Being a FAQ/review, most likely quite a bit of information was already present on other articles.

Writing skill:
 * I rated this article 4 on writing because... A few spelling issues– most is citation/review. You could spice things up with a bit of your own words/opinions and notate them as so...



HIGHLIGHT SPECIFIC POINTS IN THE RUBRIC that apply to the article. To do this: Highlight sections with the cursor and use the BOLD icon above OR type ''' (3 apostrophes) before and after the text you want to make bold

Part 3 - "2+2"
List TWO compliments and TWO suggestions about the article content
 * Hints:
 * Focus on the work, not the person
 * Describe "There is...", "I see.." rather than judge "You didn't..."

Compliments  .Fairly straight forward presentation. .'''Simple, effective format. The questions at the end were a good match to what's presented.'''

 Suggestions  .'''A little too short. Expand a little. Broaden the FAQ.''' <li>.Add some personal insight. </ol>