Thursday, July 25, 2013

Feedback on the summer Chemistry course

1. What has worked well this summer?
- I think that working together in our lab groups has been very rewarding because we learned to work together as a group and assign jobs to each person.

2. What suggestions do you have for tweaking or changing the course?
- Working together on the practice quizzes before we take our mini quizzes. We did that today and it helped a lot.

3. How can we go even further with presentations about individual interests a la Economist reports? Can we make some of them group presentations, even more creative, mini-research projects, or even videos or performances or experiments?
- I like the economist presentations how they are now, but maybe we can try to know our project well enough not to look at the board. I like the idea of videos or maybe powerpoints for the reports too!

4. How can we use blogs more efficiently?
- I think we use the blogs very well now.

5. Should the instructor check all homework on the blogs?
- Yes so he can see that we actually finished our homework.

6. With a new head of school who is calling for more creativity, even in science, what whacky vision do you have for learning Chemistry that has more joy, less fear of G.P.A and more excitement about learning about science?
- More projects that help us appreciate science. Maybe looking for the science behind things that we didn't know had science in it like in music or dancing. 

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