Here is a finishing complete sentence :-)
Maybe asking team to hypothesize
about the results if we CHANGED a parameter
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On 12-09-18 9:36 AM, "Sibley, James Edward" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Hi
>
>Could you do a synthesis activity....where teams of 2-3 students do
>experiment....get results
>
>Then the TBL activity might be 2-3 teams discussing and combining their
>results to come up with a team answer? Maybe asking team to hypothesize
>about the results if we a a parameter
>
>JIm
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>Jim Sibley
>Director
>Centre for Instructional Support
>Faculty of Applied Science
>University of British Columbia
>2205-6250 Applied Science Lane
>Vancouver, BC Canada
>V6T 1Z4
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>On 12-09-17 9:35 AM, "J.Aires de Sousa" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>Dear TBLers
>>
>>We are implementing TBL in various Chemistry undergraduate courses. A
>>key issue here is the integration of lab works. We understand lab
>>sessions can be great application activities. At the same time, the
>>process urges to re-frame the real goal of lab sessions (demonstration
>>of "natural laws", learning activities, training of lab skills,...?).
>>And the organization of sessions must be completely reshaped.
>>
>>In one case, we adapted our traditional lab works to TBL applications,
>>using essentially the same material and reagents. For example, one
>>session was about acid-basis titrations of solutions. Before, the
>>students used to follow a recipe. Now, they don't know the concentration
>>of one solution, and teams have to find it using the titrations. The
>>evaluation of the team is based on the result -- how close it is to the
>>real concentration.
>>
>>A problem we face on reshaping lab sessions as TBL applications is about
>>creating lab activities for teams of 6-8 students. Students
>>traditionally work in groups of 2-3, because no more than that can
>>perform the same task simultaneously! To overcome it, we could divide
>>tasks by team members, but that would loose the "team driving force" of
>>TBL... At the same time we want that all students are trained on all
>>techniques... In the above-mentioned case, each team was divided in two:
>>each sub-team had to validate the results of the other, and the whole
>>team had to arrive at a final team answer for the concentration.
>>
>>In some courses (e.g., organic synthesis) we very much emphasize the
>>training of individual lab skills. A proposal for TBLing lab sessions is
>>that each student (or pair of students) is assigned the task of
>>performing the synthesis of the same product, and teams have to deliver
>>the maximum possible amount of bulk product (resulting from the
>>individual contributions). The team will be evaluated on the basis of
>>the amount and purity of the product they deliver. In this way, team
>>members would be encouraged to cooperate to achieve the maximum possible
>>yield and purity. During the process, and at the end, the whole team
>>would have to make decisions about which contributed products are
>>excluded if their purity is not good enough.
>>
>>I'd be grateful if you could comment on these issues, come up with new
>>ideas for TBLing lab sessions, and send me examples of implementing lab
>>works as TBL activities.
>>
>>Joao
>>
>>--
>>Joao Aires de Sousa
>>Departamento de Quimica, Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia,
>>Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
>>Tel: (+351) 21 2948300 x10907 Fax: (+351) 21 2948550
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