AT Cycle 1

🔴 2: T 9/8, *Z* 4: F 9/4, 🔵 5: T 9/8 - what is learning? is struggle bad?

Today, we'll tackle two very difficult questions:  

• What is learning?  

• How do you learn?

We'll talk about learning in general and in this course.  We'll look at some research that will help us to understand learning:

1. Students Think Lectures Are Best, But Research Suggests They’re Wrong

2. Harnessing the Power of Productive Struggle

3. Why Do Some People Learn Faster?

4. What if the Secret to Success is Failure?

Then, we'll tackle these questions:

• What does it take to learn something?

• What's the difference between learning and practice?

• How can you become a better learner?

• What are the habits and attitudes of good learners?  

We'll take a look at a couple of articles:

1. The Art of Changing the Brain

2. Why I No Longer Use Groups in the Classroom

3. Don't Blink! The Hazards of Confidence

4. Attention, Students: Put Your Laptops Away

5. Why Students Forget—and What You Can Do About It (drill down)

Then, we'll discuss specific strategies to help us when we struggle:  

• What’s something you want to achieve in this class? 

• What is one new concrete thing you’ll do to work towards your learning goals based on this discussion? 

• What do you need to be willing to do to embrace this new tactic/struggle/attitude?  

• What are some things you can tell yourself along the learning process? 

• What can we (teacher and other students) do to encourage you?  

You'll make your own learning pit poster with self-talk ideas.  We will make a reminder poster for the room to help you. 

🟥 2: Th 9/10, 🟡 4: T 9/8, 🟦 5: W 9/9 - free body diagrams

Daily Check-in #1: free body diagrams

Today, we'll do our first daily check-in.  This will test your ability to apply the principles in the free body diagram video.  

🟨 4: W 9/9 - study

Period 4 - I will be absent. Please use this time to study for the review assessment (Monday, September 14) or watch assigned videos.

❤️ 2: F 9/11 lab, 💛 4: Th 9/10 lab, 💙 5: F 9/11 lab - Newton's Second Law problems

We'll continue to go through the solutions to the first Daily Check-in.

If there's time, we'll work independently and collaboratively on problems pertaining to Newton's Laws from Chapter 5 in our new Halliday textbook and Chapter 4 in our old Giancoli textbook (indicated with a G) starting at your level.  I will assess your understanding individually and answer your questions as I circulate the room.

Support: 41, 48, 49, 51, 53, 56, 57
Required: 13, 56, 58, 64, G54, G55, G66, G75
Enrichment: 59, 67

Homework:  ❗Assessment on what you should already know going into this class is next class - Monday, September 14th.