Assignments
Section outline
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This course has four major assignments:
- A1: Project proposal (due semester 1): Students produce a project proposal that describes their inquiry, articulates their positionality and theoretical lens, includes a preliminary review of relevant literature, outlines methodology and methods, and describes proposed professional application, all in accordance with APA 7th edition guidelines.
- A2: Reflective essay and literature review (first draft due semester 1): All students will produce a reflective paper informed by the scholarly literature that articulates their research process and implications for practice, as well as a literature review.
- A3: Professional application (due semester 2): Acceptable professional and/or scholarly applications may include—but are not limited to— development of K-12 curriculum, creation of open educational resources (OER), design and facilitation of a workshop or symposium, authorship of a children’s book or educational toolkit, autoethnographic or narrative inquiry. Other creative, practice-based, or community-oriented outputs are also welcome with supervisory approval.
- A4: Knowledge mobilization (due semester 2): Students will share their work in a summative presentation to their peers, instructors, and invited guests.
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Students have a responsibility to transparently state and highlight where and how they have used GenAI in work they have submitted. Instructors also have a responsibility to state clearly and explicitly where they are using GenAI in the development and delivery of the course.
Read the attached letter regarding appropriate and inappropriate use of GenAI: