Week 5 Discussion Questions

Discussion Questions

1.Which method of note taking do you currently use? Compare your current method of note taking to those in the reading, which strategies can add to your note taking.

2.What are some of your barriers to active listening? What ideas from the reading can you incorporate into your active listening?

Week 5 Assignments

Learning Outcomes
(This lesson teaches you about:)

Seminar
•Becoming an Active Listener – Listening Vs. Hearing
•Effective Strategies for Note-Taking
•Effective Strategies for Improving Memory

Homework
Read pgs. 195-219
Complete Discussion Questions
Complete Journal
•Study with a classmate

Discussion Questions
1.Which method of note taking do you currently use? Compare your current method of note taking to those in the reading, which strategies can add to your note taking.
2.What are some of your barriers to active listening? What ideas from the reading can you incorporate into your active listening?

Journal
“What obstacles prevent you from listening?”
Think About
•Strategies you can use to improve your listening
See
•See instructors issuing an Early Alert
DO
•Check in weekly with all instructors
•Listen to a friend or sibling
•Use Cornell notes

QEP Gumbo Tales Assignment

QEP Topic: Communication Skills Enhancement Grounded in Critical Thinking

Theme: “Can I Text You the World”

Questions: How has social networking transformed the ways we communicate and transmit information in an increasingly global society?

ESSAY Theme Topic: Gumbo Tales provides a snapshot of both the inter-workings and nuances of New Orleans culture. The text uses food as the vehicle through which to expose and examine the New Orleans community. If one were to use social networking sites like facebook, myspace, and electronic messaging (delivered via text) to examine the culture and practices of a given community (for example, the newest class of Dillard University Students), what would they discover?

Question: Write an analytical critique of the use of any one aspect of a society (food, technology, music, etc) as an adequate tool for explaining the culture of the group. Offer the ways in which this approach would be both effective and ineffective.- (will posted on line)

Email as an attatchment (MS WORD) on or before 10 a.m. Thursday October 1, 2009:

krutherford@dillard.edu

One Book One New Orleans

Students are required to read the selection in association with the One Book One New Orleans Program. In addition to the reading students are to take part in at least one of the scheduled activities that coincide with the program. The 2009 book selection is: Gumbo Tales by Sara Roahen. Additional information and schedules of upcoming activities for One Book One New Orleans can be obtained by visiting http://www.onebookoneneworleans.com/

Meet with the author @ Dillard University

Lawless Chapel

November 5, 2009

7 p.m.

One Book One New Orleans Activity= 30 points
A. ESSAY- 20 points
B. ATTENDANCE at Meet the Author- 10 points

Week 4 Discussion Questions

Discussion Questions
1.Describe a problem or an issue you've had since being at Dillard, how did critical thinking help you find a solution?
2.Post an issue that needs solving, use critical thinking to offer 1 suggestion to solve.


See Week 4 Assignments for Journal Topic

Week 4 Assignments

Seminar
•Successful Intelligence
•Effective Strategies for Critical/Analytical Thinking
•Effective Strategies for Creative Thinking
•Effective Strategies for Practical Thinking
•Applying Successful Intelligence to Research, Problem Solving, and Decision Making

Homework
Read text book pgs. 135-163
•Study with group of classmates
•Use Cornell notes in your classes

Discussion Questions
1.Describe a problem or an issue you've had since being at Dillard, how did critical thinking help you find a solution?
2.Post an issue that needs solving, use critical thinking to offer 1 suggestion to solve problem.

Journal
“Solve a problem using the 7 step thinking skills on pg. 114”
Think About
Using critical thinking to solve both academic, and social issues.

See
•Instructors issuing you an Early Alert
•Each instructor to ensure your progress in class

DO
•Make a plan to improve grades before midterm
•Seek help from instructor
•Seek help from supplemental services
•Seek help from dept tutors

Week 3 Assignments

Seminar
•Exploration of the Relationship between Values, Goals, and Time Management
•The Difference between Short-term and Long-term goals
•Setting Realistic Goals and Following Through
•Effective Strategies for Time Management

Homework
Read text pgs. 98-134
•Study with group of classmates

Discussion Questions
1.Consider your short term goal to have a successful semester, learning style and 168 hours per week. Use the information to revise your study plan from Week 1 (Post Plan)
2.What activities, organizations or hobbies you are currently or would like to be involved in? How will you organize your time to accommodate those activities.

Journal
Week 3 Journal “ 1668 hours: How do I spend my time”
•Keep a journal of how you spend each of the 168 hour for a week. Evaluate/determine what changes need to be made.

Think About
Long term goals (5 year plan)
Short term goals (1 semester plan)
•Write your goals
•Write a plan to assist on attaining those goals

See
•Mr. McField in Career Development to discuss long-term goals.
•Mrs. Heisser to discuss
Following through on goals.

DO

Week 3 Discussion Questions

1.Consider your short term goal to have a successful semester, learning style and 168 hours per week. Use the information to revise your study plan from Week 1 (Post Plan)

2.What activities, organizations or hobbies you are currently or would like to be involved in? How will you organize your time to accommodate those activities.

See Week 3 asssignments for Journal Topic.