the easyr way to get students thinking critically florida 2013
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Slide presentation for the Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning November 2013. Critical thinking begins with good lesson planning and the EASyR method can help!TRANSCRIPT
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The #EASyR Way to get Students
Thinking Critically
Kay Lehmann, EdDWith support from co-author Lisa Chamberlin
Twitter hashtag for this presentation - #EASyR & #aln85477
Unless otherwise noted
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Lesson Planning
Is…Not sexy or
exciting!
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Consider this scenario
• Paper submitted by student is plagiarized
• Whose fault is this? • A. The student’s of course• B. The professor’s fault• C. Both
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What is EASyR• Original Bloom’s order (Anyone…?
Anyone?)• Audaciously we suggest it should
be:• Evaluate• Analyze• Synthesize• Review/Revise/Reflect
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Evaluation became synonymouswith testing.
Bloom’s Original Hierarchy
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Targeting Upper Levels
• Krathwohl et.al added Create
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DefinitionsIn Our Order
• Evaluate
• Analyze
• Synthesize
• Review/Revise
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The Aha! Moment
• Critical thinking process• What did we want
students to do and in what order
• SAE became EASy• Later it became EASyR
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EASyR Example 1
• Nursing education to teach teamwork• Before – Teams drove remote
control cars• After – Teams analyzed medical
cases for breakdown by teams and what optimum teams would do
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EASyR Example 2
• Business training to handle personal biases• Before – Watch a video and
reflect• After – Read, watch video,
discuss, take an inventory, create personal action plans for recognizing and dealing with bias, share plans with peers and revise
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EASyR Example 3
• HTML training• Before – Handout with matching
exercise• After – Create a page using
HTML tags based on teacher’s design
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EASyR Example 4
• Organizational change – Business education• Before - Discuss collaboration
and what makes it effective• After - Develop with peers list of
effective collaboration practices, collaboratively order the list, create an action plan to increase effective collaboration in an org
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EASyR Example 5
• Literature – Analyzing a character - Hamlet • Evaluate - Discuss Hamlet’s
sanity using quotes from the lit and basic psychology diagnoses
• Analyze - Analyze Hamlet from 4 other char perspective
• Synthesize - Develop a treatment plan appropriate for the literary character
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One last example… my favoriteObjectives (Old f2f plan)• Summarize the major plot elements in
chronological order.• Identify a character's heroic traits.• Describe a character's feelings in a
work of fiction.• Discuss the ways that racism
negatively impacts individuals.
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Objectives (New eLearning plan)• Review specific violations to the
Civil Rights Act of 1964. (Evaluation)• Justify how a character’s actions
are similar to real life heroes of the Civil Rights Movement. (Analysis)
• Defend their claim using specific evidence from credible sources. (Analysis)
• Create a civil rights complaint for the character that could be filed with the Office of Civil Rights in Washington, D.C. (Synthesis)
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Does it work?
• Data is anecdotal• Student reflective
comments
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The EASy Critical Thinking method -- I spent so much time on this, but learned so much at the same time. When I was done and writing the synopsis of things that changed from my old to new lesson plan, I realized how much more engaging it would be for students to participate in my new and improved lesson plan. I can see where it fosters so much more critical thinking when compared to my traditional lesson plan. It makes me want to change all my lessons.
- University Instructor
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Examples from audience
• Discuss in groups• Share ideas • Ask questions
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EASyR site: http://goo.gl/88PC51Presentation & handouts there
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EASy and other tips are in Making the Move to eLearning: Putting your Course Online
Available now on Amazon.com and at Rowman Education (www.rowmaneducation.com)