Competency Demo - Learning to Learn

The Competency Activity this week focuses on the supplemental readings about Learning to Learn (to program). This article features 10 different tips for helping students learn to learn how to program. I want you to reread this list and take notes regarding what stands out to you.

Then, to help you start to make sense of the list as a whole I would like you to complete the following [Which is largely the countdown technique from our reflections methodology page]:

• Going through the 10 tips, I want you to identify the five most important to you.
• RANK them in importance from #5 (least important of the list) to #1 (most important of the list).
• For each of these five elements, EXPLAIN why you think it is important and why it has the ranking that it does on your personal list.
• For each of these five elements, IDENTIFY some combination of:
  • Where you saw this tip employed in last fall's FOP course
  • Where you think it could have been employed in last fall's FOP course
  • Where you have used this idea in your own teaching
  For this element you do not need to address each of these three bullets. One is sufficient. But two or all three may approrpriate depending on the tip and your own, personal experiences.

Submission

This counts as a competency demo in the course. In other words, each question will be assigned a score of 0-4 and an overall grade for the activity will be assigned.

While these questions are somewhat a matter of opinion - that is, they have multiple "right answers" - they can still be graded for competence based on how well you explain and defend your answer(s). Recognize that the degree to which you do so will have an impact on your grade.

Please submit this via Blackboard by the end of the week.