Jingwei Viola Liu 

Course Title

A305: Deeper Learning for All (Harvard University transferred credit)

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Course Description

This course explores the nature of good teaching and learning at the classroom and school level, and encourages students to rethink assumptions and design anew. How districts, states, and countries organize their educational system to aim for high-quality schooling will be reviewed.

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Project Description

This project involved developing an online supplemental environment to complement traditional classroom teaching. This online environment includes the following features:

• The ability for students to submit and classify assignments online

• The ability for students to do online collaborative activities with each other

• A dashboard displaying student progress that allows navigation

• Areas where students can document their own work and progress

The environment has three main areas: Profile (the dashboard), Knowledge (where students can turn in assignments), and Learning (where the teacher can post assignments and instructions). These were designed based on the three-legged stool approach, where the legs were metacognition, personalization, and documentation.

• Metacognition: This involved allowing students the ability to reflect on the video content to gain mastery of it and increase memory of it. This was facilitated through collaboration features that allowed for shared peer and mentor sessions. It also provides the student opportunity for reflection at the end of each project or unit.

• Personalization: This involves cultivating identity through encouraging the student to self-identify strengths and weaknesses. It also leverages data analytics to provide feedback on the dashboard.

• Documentation: This supplemental environment makes learning from in school during the day visible at home. It helps organize learning within as well as across disciplines.