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Grading Rubric For Question Ambassador Activity

       
      Your score Point Value Components of grade
      140 SUP course teams database question and response contributions, questions which are higher thinking skill type questions found in the left margin of your online notebook for each week (the maximum total of 140 points means that at least 2 contributions have been made each week to the SUP discussion area for your team and class, along with other contributions required in various chapters. At least 30 spaced contributions are needed for all 140 points.
      40 Question Ambassador work with a community member (begins with Chapter 9 on study of Curriculum competencies); appropriate forms been signed by community member and have been turned in to the instructor and a copy of your response to the community member.
      20 Questions and responses mind in the appropriate SUP discussion area related to your Social, Legal and Ethical Issues question, which is also partial preparation for your final exam (begins with week on the study of Social Legal and Ethical Issues; more than two are expected). These links are introduced in chapter 12 and re-emphasized in chapter 13.
      200 Total Points
    Interaction begins with a personal dialog, a self-questioning. This is the role of the left margin of your online notebook, to provide a way to articulate and to share these thoughts. Learning is also dependent on interaction beyond self-dialog, on open-minded conversation with others in your class or team within the class, whether this is a self-selecting team or one assigned by your instructor, activity which is made visible through the SUP database. Extending this interaction beyond the classroom provides greater authenticity and relevance for these efforts. By integrating this activity with the Internet, at least a portion of the net becomes a "wonder web" that anyone in the world can explore.

    The frequency and depth at which you interact with yourself and others is an important measure of learning capacity for any topic. We also know with certainty that information moves mathematically more quickly through a heterarchy than a hierarchy and that the greater the pressure on a system (group, team, class, business), the more a heterachy moves information with social efficiency. The more challenging the problem, the better the decentered system of heterarchy performs. The flow of information through the Internet itself is based on this understanding.

    In classrooms, this means that teaching students to be more of their own teachers, independent learners, and to work more with effective problem solving teams, increases the rate of learning. This means that systems that support learning that do not always require teacher control and intervention will be more powerful systems of learning than systems in which every step of learning depends on the control of a teacher. Such shared control also requires many levels of interaction. This QA work models one form of a learner centered or shared control system of learning. One of the things that we also know with great certainty is that systems with sufficient levels of interaction will surprise us .

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