Defining learning goals

1
Defining learning goals
2
Learning goals

• Help to design appropriate challenges
• Low level of granularity (relatively quick time
  to achieve)
• Consider what you want the student to be able to
  do
• Ideally should be SMART
• Specific
• Measurable
• Achievable
• Realistic
• Timely

3
For example

• Use online reading lists.
• Reading list messages.
• Plan a simple search strategy to find information
  for an assignment.
• Recognise good and poor quality information.
• Evaluating true and false statements from web
  sites

4
Developing Learning Goals

• Individually, write down 3 key learning goals (10
  mins)
• In pairs, review and refine each others goals
  and discard any duplicates (10 mins).
• Continue doubling up until there is one group and
  a single set of goals (20 mins).
• Write final set of goals on a flip chart.

5
Creating challenges
6
Exploring InfoSkills challenges

• Go to www.violaquest.org
• In pairs, you have 20 minutes to complete as many
  InfoSkills challenges as possible

7
Developing your own challenges

• Get into small groups (2-3 people)
• Select a learning goal
• For that goal try to develop a challenge that
  would work in an ARG
• Be as creative as you like and be prepared to
  test your challenges with the whole group

8
Things to think about

• Type of challenge
• Individual or group?
• Online or offline?
• Timing how long will it take?
• Instructions is it clear what needs to be done?
• Purpose why is it important to complete?
• Narrative how might the challenge fit into a
  story?

9
Testing your challenges

• Each group should present a challenge scenario
• The others then have 10 minutes to try to solve
  the challenge
• There is then 5 minutes for the group to receive
  feedback