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Students look for recent events or developments in the real world that are related to their coursework, then analyze these current affairs to identify the connections to course material in entries that they write in a journal.

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Contemporary Issues Journal

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In Group Grid, group members are given pieces of information and asked to place them in the blank cells of a grid according to category rubrics, which helps them clarify conceptual categories and develop sorting skills.

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Group Grid

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Paper Seminar provides a framework for meaningful discussion centered on student work.

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Paper Seminar

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For Sketch Notes, students use handwritten words and visual elements such as drawings, boxes, lines, and arrows to illustrate the main concepts from a lecture, as well as their interrelations.

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Sketch Notes

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A PLE is a set of people and digital resources an individual can access for the specific intent of learning. Students illustrate the potential connections through a visible network of the set.

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Personal Learning Environment

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In Test-Taking Teams, students work in groups to prepare for a test. They then take the test, first individually and next as a group.

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Test-Taking Teams

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A Role Play is a created situation in which students deliberately act out or assume characters or identities they would not normally assume.

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Role Play

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With Case Studies, student teams review a real-life problem scenario in depth. Team members apply course concepts to identify and evaluate alternative approaches to solving the problem.

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Case Studies

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A Triple-Jump is a three-step technique that requires students to think through and attempt to solve a real-world problem.

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Triple Jump

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In Dyadic Essays, students: 1). complete a content unit, identify a central question, and draft an answer to that question, 2). exchange questions with a peer and prepare responses, and 3). pairs read and compare the model and in-class answers.

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Dyadic Essays

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In Dyadic Interviews, student pairs take turns asking each other questions that tap into values, attitudes, beliefs, and prior experiences that are relevant to course content or learning goals.

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Dyadic Interviews

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A Frame is a template of sentence stems that provides the shape of a short essay, but not the content. Students complete the sentences, expressing their ideas in their own words, but doing so within a clear and organized framework.

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Frames

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