Slide presentation for the Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning November 2013. Critical thinking begins with good lesson planning and the EASyR method can help!
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The EASyR way to get students thinking critically florida 2013
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2. The #EASyR Way
to get Students
Thinking Critically
Kay Lehmann, EdD
With support from co-author Lisa Chamberlin
Twitter hashtag for this presentation - #EASyR & #aln85477
4. Consider this scenario
• Paper submitted by student is
plagiarized
• Whose fault is this?
• A. The student’s of course
• B. The professor’s fault
• C. Both
5. What is EASyR
• Original Bloom’s order (Anyone…?
Anyone?)
• Audaciously we suggest it should
be:
• Evaluate
• Analyze
• Synthesize
• Review/Revise/Reflect
9. The Aha! Moment
• Critical thinking process
• What did we want
students to do and in what
order
• SAE became EASy
• Later it became EASyR
10. EASyR Example 1
• Nursing education to teach
teamwork
• Before – Teams drove remote
control cars
• After – Teams analyzed medical
cases for breakdown by teams
and what optimum teams would
do
11. EASyR Example 2
• Business training to handle personal
biases
• Before – Watch a video and
reflect
• After – Read, watch video,
discuss, take an inventory, create
personal action plans for
recognizing and dealing with bias,
share plans with peers and revise
12. EASyR Example 3
• HTML training
• Before – Handout with matching
exercise
• After – Create a page using
HTML tags based on teacher’s
design
13. EASyR Example 4
• Organizational change – Business
education
• Before - Discuss collaboration
and what makes it effective
• After - Develop with peers list of
effective collaboration practices,
collaboratively order the list,
create an action plan to increase
effective collaboration in an org
14. EASyR Example 5
• Literature – Analyzing a character Hamlet
• Evaluate - Discuss Hamlet’s
sanity using quotes from the lit
and basic psychology diagnoses
• Analyze - Analyze Hamlet from 4
other char perspective
• Synthesize - Develop a treatment
plan appropriate for the literary
character
15. One last example… my favorite
Objectives (Old f2f plan)
• Summarize the major plot elements in
chronological order.
• Identify a character's heroic traits.
• Describe a character's feelings in a
work of fiction.
• Discuss the ways that racism
negatively impacts individuals.
16. Objectives (New eLearning plan)
• Review specific violations to the
Civil Rights Act of 1964. (Evaluation)
• Justify how a character’s actions
are similar to real life heroes of the
Civil Rights Movement. (Analysis)
• Defend their claim using specific
evidence from credible
sources. (Analysis)
• Create a civil rights complaint for
the character that could be filed with
the Office of Civil Rights in
Washington, D.C. (Synthesis)
17. Does it work?
• Data is anecdotal
• Student reflective
comments
18. The EASy Critical Thinking method -- I spent
so much time on this, but learned so much at the
same time. When I was done and writing the
synopsis of things that changed from my old to
new lesson plan, I realized how much more
engaging it would be for students to participate
in my new and improved lesson plan. I can see
where it fosters so much more critical thinking
when compared to my traditional lesson plan. It
makes me want to change all my lessons.
- University Instructor
21. EASy and other tips are in
Making the Move to eLearning: Putting your Course Online
Available now on Amazon.com and at Rowman Education (www.rowmaneducation.com)
Notes de l'éditeur
Evaluating requires students to use different sources and then decide whether or not the information is useful. Analyzing asks students to take this research a step further by selectively choosing the very best parts of each source. Students might also determine what is fact and what is opinion as they select only the best parts that will help them achieve their purpose. When students synthesize, they develop a new perspective based on their evaluation and analysis of multiple sources (Lehmann & Chamberlin, 2009).
