How do you train students to read and understand scientific articles? Here is a lesson plan suitable for a group of 25-30 students in a physical classroom.
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Tips: Better technical drawing with peer review
Mikael Åsberg shares a scheme where future machine engineers trains each other in technical drawing. A system with controlled peer review provides less correction work for the teacher, more time with the students for dialogue and reflection and better quality of the students’ drawings. And the scheme is useful far beyond the subject of technical drawing!
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The pedagogical café on 29 March 2023 was about students’ lack of habit of reading and understanding academic text.
Continue reading “Pedagogical café: To analyze text and scientific articles”The tree-step-strategy for reading scientific articles
For the unaccustomed student, it is easy to drown in details when trying to read scientific text such as research articles. It ends in confusion. The student needs a clear strategy to stick to. Here, Kershav describes a useful three-step method to keep the reader’s head safely above the water’s surface.
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Lund University have published a collection of short videos about academic writing as open resource. You can use some or all of them in your teaching.
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How can you best work with peer response on academic text? Peer review versus peer response. Create good text seminars. Using a reading log and three didactic questions for text analysis. — A presentation.
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The Karlstad University Library has collected material on how students write an academic text, for example a scientific essay or report.
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