Assignment No: 01 Semester: Spring, 2021 Level: B. Ed (1.5 Years) Course Code: 8611 Tutor Name: Amir Mahboob Student Name: Mehak Fatima Roll No. cb645651
Assignment No: 01 Semester: Spring, 2021 Level: B. Ed (1.5 Years) Course Code: 8611 Tutor Name: Amir Mahboob Student Name: Mehak Fatima Roll No. cb645651
Assignment No: 01 Semester: Spring, 2021 Level: B. Ed (1.5 Years) Course Code: 8611 Tutor Name: Amir Mahboob Student Name: Mehak Fatima Roll No. cb645651
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ASSIGNMENT No. 1
critical thinking
Here are additional courses of action you might take when using critical thinking
for problem-solving at work:
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• Identify a problem or issue
• Create inferences on why the problem exists and how it can be solved
• Collect information or data on the issue through research
• Organize and sort data and findings
• Develop and execute solutions
• Analyze what solutions worked or didn’t work
• Identify ways to improve the solution
Here are five common and impactful critical thinking skills you might consider
including on your resume or discussing in your interview:
1. Observation
2. Analysis
3. Inference
4. Communication
5. Problem solving
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1. Observation
2. Analysis
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3. Inference
4. Communication
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5. Problem-solving
Social exclusion
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participate in social, economic, political and cultural life and their relationships
with others. And while poverty has a profound effect on some, though not all, of
these aspects of social exclusion, there are other important causal factors of social
exclusion such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender and employment status.
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In the last ‘Poverty and Social Exclusion survey’ in 1999,
the indicators of the extent of social relations and an ability to participate in
society that had been covered in the Breadline Britain surveys were extended to
widen the investigation. Levels of social participation were found to be affected
by age, gender, household type and employment status as well as poverty. Of all
those variables, poverty had the strongest negative effect on social relationships.
marginalization
Definition
whole category of people is expelled from useful participation in social life and
thus potentially subjected to severe material deprivation.” Not being included is
costly indeed. (Jenson,2000)
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When limiting ones rights, they often oppressed, deemed as
having no value or freedom of speech in society because of their lower position
status wise
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Connectivism is a theoretical framework for
understanding learning in a digital age. It emphasizes how internet technologies
such as web browsers, search engines, wikis, online discussion forums, and social
networks contributed to new avenues of learning. Technologies have enabled
people to learn and share information across the World Wide Web and among
themselves in ways that were not possible before the digital age. Learning does
not simply happen within an individual, but within and across the networks. What
sets connectivism apart from theories such as constructivism is the view that
"learning (defined as actionable knowledge) can reside outside of ourselves
(within an organization or a database), is focused on connecting specialized
information sets, and the connections that enable us to learn more are more
important than our current state of knowing".
History
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reconsidered and its technological implications were discussed by Siemens' and
Ally.
The central aspect of connectivism is the metaphor of a network with nodes and
connections.
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Principles
CATs are spot checks for understanding that are quick, easy, and effective.
Students benefit from the opportunity to check their own comprehension and
reorganize their ideas if necessary. These activities are appropriate for initiating,
clarifying, and summarizing information at any point in a given class session. It is
important to conduct CATs periodically in the class to assess your students'
understanding and provide necessary feedback to reinforce correct concepts and
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clarify misconception. Tanner and Allen (2004) describe the iterative nature of
classroom assessment through the graphic below:
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1. Prepare a brief questionnaire to give students at the beginning of a
course or before introducing a new topic.
3. Be sure to let students know that these are not tests or quizzes and
that they will not be graded.
• Minute Paper . During the first or last few minutes of class, have students
write a paragraph about their understanding of a particular topic or an
assignment.
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1. Stop class two or three minutes early and ask students the
following two questions (or some variation of them):“What was
the most important thing you learned during this class?” and/or
“What important question remains unanswered?”
3. Faculty can quickly find out what students see as the most
significant things they are learning and what other questions they
have and can then decide whether any changes or adjustment in
instruction are needed.
• Muddiest Point. Have students describe the most unclear or confusing part
of a lecture, discussion, homework assignment, or field experience in a
course that emphasizes integrating, synthesizing, and evaluating
information. This technique will help faculty determine which particular
aspects of the course content are most difficult for students to learn.
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1. Ask student to jot down a quick response to one question: “What
was the muddiest point in __________________?”
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2. Try to answer the WDWWWWHW question yourself, as quickly
as you can.
• Empty Outline . To assess how well students have learned course content,
give students a partially completed outline on a topic and have them fill in
the blank spaces. This will help faculty determine how well students have
learned the important aspects of a topic and will help students become
more aware of the organization of the main points of the material.
• Memory Matrix . This technique is used to assess how well students recall
and organize content.
Assessing Higher Order Thinking Skills (analysis, synthesis, problem solving, and
application)
• Pro and Con Grid . Provide a prompt eliciting thoughtful advantages and
disadvantages in relation to an issue or dilemma. Then have students to
analyze the costs and benefits of an issue.
• Concept Map. Have students create a concept map that analyzes and
synthesizes ideas from readings or discussions. Afterwards, ask students to
post their maps (electronically or physically) for peer feedback. Students
can organize their map around one idea or question. Using this technique
will give faculty a visual representation of the associations that students
have formed between different concepts.
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2. Give students an index card and have them write down a possible
real-world application for the concept you chose.
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• Choose techniques that will provide useful feedback and involve your
students in learning.
• Plan ahead for data analysis and how you will respond to areas needing
improvement.
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A reflective journal can coach and train teachers to learn so much about
themselves and their profession. From personal and professional
perspectives, it can help teachers in improving numerous teaching qualities
and skills. The reflective journal can assist them in:
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• understanding the complexity of student learning strategies;
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failure, doubt and fear) and panic out of the equation, in order to find concrete
solutions to classroom issues, one logical step at a time.
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4. Improving Decision-making
In noting down lessons, personal and student
feedback, teachers stand to gain a better understanding of what impact their
methods and strategies have on their student’s learning styles. In the long-
term and with much experience, the teacher can learn to quickly perceive eventual
obstacles or pitfalls associated with a specific teaching method or approach.
• test the prediction (Use another colour and darken the information on the
board.);
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• repeat: Use the results to make new hypotheses or predictions (They are
still not answering – the problem is not my diagram on the board. Perhaps
they don’t understand this problem, question, illustration, and example. Let me
try that again with another method or example.), and then,
Over time and with practise, this process can be used directly
in the classroom environment to assess student learning in order to signal the need
or opportunity to modify and adapt a teaching situation. It builds transversal
metacognitive skills since it requires judgement, critical analysis, brainstorming,
and collaboration. And these skills lead to better informed decision-making and
self-confidence building.
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disappointment (That was so humiliating!). In either case, as soon as the
experience is shared with someone else, this other person will project their
opinions or emotions and sway the candidate’s initial sentiments. This is
particularly true when the experience is negative and the other person wishes to
console or comfort the distressed candidate. For this reason, a job candidate
should note down their feelings right after their interview before speaking to a
peer.
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one’s sack”, so to speak. This is very precious in diffident moments of uncertainty
and isolation.
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10. Analysing Instruction from a Qualitative Perspective
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