CUS3701: Curriculum Studies
Assignment: 02 Due Date:
Year Module 2022
Name:
Student no:
Do not forget to paraphrase your work!!!
QUESTION 1
Skills to consider that would prepare learners more holistically and might assist
teachers in the implementation of the curriculum, include the following:
1. Sense-making: determine deeper meaning, e.g. relate concepts to everyday experiences and
reality.
2. Social Intelligence: ability to connect deeply and directly with others, to sense and stimulate
reactions and desired interactions, such as working in groups on tasks or role play.
, QUESTION 1
Skills to consider that would prepare learners more holistically and might assist teachers
in the implementation of the curriculum, include the following:
3. Sense-making: determine deeper meaning, e.g. relate concepts to everyday
experiences and reality.
4. Social Intelligence: ability to connect deeply and directly with others, to sense
and stimulate reactions and desired interactions, such as working in groups on tasks or
role play.
5. Novel and adaptive thinking: proficiency in thinking and coming up with
solutions and responses that go beyond what is rote or rule-based, e.g. practical
scientific tasks that can be completed by using one's own experiences to prove a point.
6. Cross-cultural competency, e.g. doing a task where they do research on a
culture other than their own to ensure that uses/traditions within the culture are
understood.
7. Computational thinking: ability to translate large amounts of data into abstract
concepts and comprehend data-driven reasoning, such as using a questionnaire to
collect data on food preferences and then plotting it on a graph in food groups.
8. New media literacy: ability to critically assess and develop content that uses
new media forms, as well as to leverage these media for persuasive communication,
such as using e-mails to exchange ideas on group/online learning tasks.
9. Transdisciplinary: literacy in and understanding of concepts from multiple
disciplines, for example, being able to write a report/essay on research done in several
subjects using the basic language rules of essay writing – introduction, body, and
conclusion.
10. Design mind-set: ability to represent and develop tasks and work processes for
desired outcomes, such as designing a new recipe for baking bread/using mind maps.
11. Cognitive load management: ability to discriminate and filter information for
significance, as well as understanding how to maximize cognitive functioning using a
variety of tools and techniques, such as creating a study plan for some subjects/time
management skills
12. Virtual collaboration: ability to work productively, drive engagement, and
demonstrate presence as a member of a virtual team, e.g. collaborate on a life-oriented
task with students from other schools via social media such as Facebook and Skype.
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Assignment: 02 Due Date:
Year Module 2022
Name:
Student no:
Do not forget to paraphrase your work!!!
QUESTION 1
Skills to consider that would prepare learners more holistically and might assist
teachers in the implementation of the curriculum, include the following:
1. Sense-making: determine deeper meaning, e.g. relate concepts to everyday experiences and
reality.
2. Social Intelligence: ability to connect deeply and directly with others, to sense and stimulate
reactions and desired interactions, such as working in groups on tasks or role play.
, QUESTION 1
Skills to consider that would prepare learners more holistically and might assist teachers
in the implementation of the curriculum, include the following:
3. Sense-making: determine deeper meaning, e.g. relate concepts to everyday
experiences and reality.
4. Social Intelligence: ability to connect deeply and directly with others, to sense
and stimulate reactions and desired interactions, such as working in groups on tasks or
role play.
5. Novel and adaptive thinking: proficiency in thinking and coming up with
solutions and responses that go beyond what is rote or rule-based, e.g. practical
scientific tasks that can be completed by using one's own experiences to prove a point.
6. Cross-cultural competency, e.g. doing a task where they do research on a
culture other than their own to ensure that uses/traditions within the culture are
understood.
7. Computational thinking: ability to translate large amounts of data into abstract
concepts and comprehend data-driven reasoning, such as using a questionnaire to
collect data on food preferences and then plotting it on a graph in food groups.
8. New media literacy: ability to critically assess and develop content that uses
new media forms, as well as to leverage these media for persuasive communication,
such as using e-mails to exchange ideas on group/online learning tasks.
9. Transdisciplinary: literacy in and understanding of concepts from multiple
disciplines, for example, being able to write a report/essay on research done in several
subjects using the basic language rules of essay writing – introduction, body, and
conclusion.
10. Design mind-set: ability to represent and develop tasks and work processes for
desired outcomes, such as designing a new recipe for baking bread/using mind maps.
11. Cognitive load management: ability to discriminate and filter information for
significance, as well as understanding how to maximize cognitive functioning using a
variety of tools and techniques, such as creating a study plan for some subjects/time
management skills
12. Virtual collaboration: ability to work productively, drive engagement, and
demonstrate presence as a member of a virtual team, e.g. collaborate on a life-oriented
task with students from other schools via social media such as Facebook and Skype.
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