Credits: Adopted from Professor Perrone’s CSCI 315 assignment.
One of the best ways to learn a topic deeply is to make a commitment to teach that topic to someone else. In this type of assignment, that is exactly what you will do. You will teach a subject from a given a list of topics that you learned in the past lectures. You will then prepare to teach this subject by developing a piece of video or audio to explain the subject to other students.
How It Works
The assignments will be posted here on this page. Students will be given a list of topics with which they can choose to work. The deliverable will be a piece of video or audio. The length must be in the range of 4 – 5 minutes, a few seconds shorter or longer should be fine, but not significantly deviating from the required length.
Method
- Study up. Use textbook(s), rewatch recorded classes or class notes, research other materials from the web. Plan carefully what you will want to cover. Write a script for your podcast or maybe storyboard your video (you can think of using a slide presentation as a storyboard).
- Verify that the timing works. Do a dry run against a stopwatch to ensure that you are staying within your time constraints. Limit your recording to 4-5 minutes! While some small amount of deviation is fine, the recording definitely should not be longer than 6 minutes or shorter than 3 minutes.
- Produce your deliverable. Since everyone in the class has access to Zoom, you can use this tool to record yourself with audio only or audio/video/screen (mp3 or mp4 format). Feel free to use other tools, but be sure to not overcomplicate the process and spend too much time. We are not looking for production value. We are looking for quality content.
- Turn it in. Submit your work to the course Google Classroom.
Assessment
Your deliverable will be assessed according to the following rubric.
| Area of Evaluation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Level | Presentation of the topic | Knowledge of the topic | Coverage of the topic |
| 1 | Not clear at all what the topic is. | Presentation shows deep misconceptions and technical errors. | Doesn’t deliver the content in a way that helps one to apply the lesson. |
| 2 | Possible to see what the topic is with some effort. | Presentation shows some misconceptions or technical errors. | Delivers the content covering some of the topic and/or lacks important details. |
| 3 | Topic is clear but the presentation goes off on distracting tangents. | Presentation shows minor and few misconceptions or technical errors | Delivers the content covering most of the topic, but lacks a few practical details. |
| 4 | Topic is clear and the presentation is laser-beam focused on it. | Presentation shows no misconceptions or technical errors. | Delivers content at depth that allows one to be able to apply the lesson. |
Assignments
We will have three such assignments during the semester. They will be posted below when ready.
- Click this link for Teach to Learn Assignment 1
- Date assigned: Friday, 2/19/2021
- Date due: 11:59 pm, Friday, 3/5/2021
- Submission: through Google Classroom
- Click this link for Teach to Learn Assignment 2
- Date assigned: Friday, 3/19/2021
- Date due: 11:59 pm, Friday, 4/2/2021
- Submission: through Google Classroom
- Click this link for Teach to Learn Assignment 3
- Date assigned: Friday, 4/16/2021
- Date due: 11:59 pm, Friday, 4/30/2021