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“I wish they would invent something that could keep the sun out of my eyes.”

Backward DesignOrganization & integration

• Wiggins and McTighe's Model• Determine Outcomes (SLO)• Determine evidence of understanding

– Explain– Interpret– Apply– Demonstrate– Empathize– Self-knowledge

• Design learning task

Content Priorities

Worth being familiar with

• Key figures

• Nonessential terminology, anecdotes, background

Important to know and do

• Key terminology (daily use of practitioners)

• Procedures

• Laws that impact daily decisions and interactions

Big Ideas

• Abstract Ideas

• Scaffolding concepts

• Critiques and analysis

• Ways of thinking

• Ethics

Implications for online courses:

• Start the design process with what you want the student to take away and remember months after the course is done.

Telling a StoryOrganization & Integration

SyllabusSakai Samples—Syllabus

Syllabus

Sakai Samples—Syllabus

Other samples of Visual Syllabuses

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