Ed History – Level Two

Part of understanding your own experience is to step back from it and to see how others (scholars, researchers, professionals in a relevant field, etc) see your experiences. Comparing your own personal experiences with those of others can help us to see our worlds more clearly, to categorize our experiences or to think of the things that have happened to us in different or more interesting ways.

1. Read one of the the following two books: (a) How Learning Works or (b) What the Best College Students Do. As you read, take careful notes on the parts you agree with or disagree with, the parts that are interesting or have you thinking differently about education/your own school experiences/the world. Keep an “active reader’s journal” in a Google Doc devoted to this text. You should include quotations and perhaps responses to them. This will help you with step three.
2. Book review resources: Book Review as Genre (pdf); Book Review Outline example (docx); Rhetoric of Book Reviews (docx).
3. As you’re reading, find two reviews of the book you’ve chosen, save PDF copies of them to your Google Drive folder for this badging pathway, and compare your reading of the book with those of the authors of the review.
4. Write a 400-500 word review of your chosen text, highlighting one or two ideas from the book that the other reviews did not. You should also include at least one quote from each of the other reviews in your review. All citations should be APA. Place your review in the appropriate Google Doc folder for this badging pathway.
5. Claim Code: B10-C0F4-284