WSQ04 – Flipped Learning / #AbolishGrades

Reflecting

This way of learning is probably very new for you. Ken knows this is good for you and has been developing these methods over the years based on the work of many other educators. We would like to hear your thoughts about this now while it is still new. It will be interesting for you to look back on at the end of the course and later in your degree program.

Choose your Source

No, not the “force”, but the source.

Here are some links to information about Flipped Learning and #AbolishGrades. Watch/read them all or just some or go ahead and suggest others in your blog post. Remember that you can become a Google Ninja and in fact you should!

  1. A Lecture From the Lectured” – blog post from students
  2. An A+ student regrets his grades” – article from the Globe and Mail from a student after graduating.
  3. Showing the Differences between a Traditional and a Flipped Classroom” – Video from FlippingPhysics, great Physics videos on his site if you want to check those out.
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Write Something

As usual, write about this on your blog using the tag #WSQ04 this time. When done, go look at other posts by your classmates.

WSQ02 – Hello World

What to Do

You should already have Eclipse setup and running, now go ahead and create a Hello World program in Java. The real work here is making sure you can get it to run inside of Eclipse. The second fun part would be synchronizing your Eclipse project with GitHub (bonus extra ninja points).

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WSQ01 – Get Coding

Setup Eclipse

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Go setup Eclipse for your machine. You can get the official version from the Eclipse website or perhaps a spin of Eclipse like Aptana. You will want to be setup for Java development.

Blog about it

As always, write a blog post about your progress and include #wsq01 as a category/tag or even just inside the text of your blogpost to help the FeedWordPress hamsters pull it into the course blog.

 

WSQ00 – Sign the Page One

Remember to Submit as a Blog Post

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Please remember to write a blog post on YOUR blog. Please remember to put the following on your blog post:

  • Put a link to your Tweet about this (if you can’t figure out how, ask here in the comments of this assignment)
  • Remember to tag your post with the hashtag #WSQ00 , remember that for Blogger and WordPress you should also use the “tag” features in the post interface
  • Do us all a favour and find a relevant and free to use photo to place on all of your blog posts including this one. Our good #CCourses friend Alan Levine (@cogdog) has a good blog post about this.