A continuation from last week's wiki assignment, below you will find a more detailed instruction regarding the previously discussed wiki assignment from Grain Elevator Entrapment: Causes, Prevention & Rescue. This wiki experience will develop critical thinking skills through real-life scenarios taken from actual incidents of grain elevator entrapments in recent years. My previous thought was to require an Emergency Action Plan be created, which would fall more aligned with West & West's (2009) contextual application. However, after further developing the plan, I think that it would be more beneficial for students to apply learnings from the course materials to an actual scenario and in groups of two determine the outcome. Below is the modified lesson plan for the new wiki assignment.
Title:
"What if" grain entrapment scenarios wiki project.
Target Audience:
Participants in GEAPS 545 - Grain Elevator Entrapment: Causes, Prevention & Rescue
Learning Objectives:
• Further develop critical thinking skills by using learnings from course materials to determine how to react in an entrapment situation or prevention scenario.
• Utilization of tools to determine how grain entrapment prevention can occur.
Process:
1. Locate your group in the group area with
K-StatePro. Use the Group message board to coordinate the wiki layout,
design and interaction. Join the wiki, via the link shared by the
instructor. Some resources available to support the wiki building
process can be found here:
2. Access your wiki page and answer your "What If" scenario. For frame of reference, the following are two examples of the what if scenarios:
Group 1: You are the manager of a small locally owned, exempt cooperative that employs family members as well as high school kids. As corn is being pulled out of a bin, you notice that it is getting hung up and needs to be knocked down. In addition to it being hung-up in the bin, the corn has gone out of condition. What if one of your high school employee's volunteers to go into the bin, how would you proceed?
Group 2: With business booming, as the manager of a large commercial grain facility, you are asked to build a one million bushel grain bin to accommodate the growth. What if you had unlimited financial resources, what safety and prevention tools would you install prior to and during installation?
3. Complete the wiki by the assigned date in the syllabus, leveraging and appropriately citing materials used for the scenarios.
Evaluation
Collaborative Effort: as seen in the history and individual bibliography - 5 points.
Peer Assessment: as determined via the Axio survey sent post wiki - 10 points.
Content: Content provided
is accurate, resources suggested are used and cited when appropriate.
Content is organized and could be utilized as a potential training tool at your facility upon completion - 15 points.
Visual
appeal and Interactive Component: Wiki is visually
interesting, using different font sizes and headings when needed.
Graphics/widgets are leveraged in an appropriate way to bring attention
when necessary and don't take away from the content of the page. There
is an interactive component on the page to engage visitors to the wiki - 10 points.
Reference: West, J. and West, M. (2009). Using Wikis for Online Collaboration: The Power of the Read-Write Web. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Brandi,
ReplyDeleteOnce again, your lesson plan is clean and concise and even us urban dwellers could participate with confidence. I like the scenario design. Framing the wiki and offering just a bit of scaffolding allows for support while inspiring creativity and a variety of directions for students to explore giving them the opportunity to truly take charge of their learning. Great job!
Brandi,
ReplyDeleteI like your revised group projects (not that I didn't like your first one). I think giving your students real-life situations to solve is a good idea and fits well with Knowles’ work. Admittedly, I don’t understand enough (anything) about your topic to understand your group one assignment. Although, I suspect ‘push the teen in and see if they can unclog it’ is probably not the correct answer.
I also liked your use of a peer review. This allows peers to interact and learn from each other which has been stressed several times in ‘The Professor’s Guide to
Taming Technology’.
Roy,
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ReplyDeleteBrandi,
DeleteI also did the “what if” scenario with my lesson plan and think it really helps to develop the critical thinking skills, your learners will get a lot more out of it since it involves actual events that would take place. I think you made a better choice by changing to a scenario based problem vice an emergency action plan; I think the students will be more engaged with this type of project. Hopefully the critical thinking they do with the project would help them to make the better decisions should they encounter a similar problem in the work place. I think in your case, with additional time, you could add follow-up questions that West & West (2009) says will help encourage additional thinking, i.e. did you think about this? Or what would you do after that? Etc.
Dean