Paolo - project outline by Paolo Acquaviva https://padlet.com/paolo_acquaviva/module_design_project Module design outline en-us 2018-11-01 11:57:13 UTC 2025-11-07 09:25:41 UTC hello@padlet.com Why this module? Rationale in context (design brief + analysis; needs analysis + challenges) paolo_acquaviva https://padlet.com/paolo_acquaviva/module_design_project/wish/299310176
Situational factors
- students profile/competences in 2yr
- place of module in curriculum
- higher-level goals; link of programme outcomes and attributes/skills

Students' needs
- awareness of cultural relativity: ability to go beyond their cultural horizon to meet another cultural world
- ability to experience distant cultural expressions: engage first-hand with defining aspects of Italian culture, not just written, without much training
- awareness of the place of this in the Italian and Arts curriculum
- ability to articulate its relevance in their personal path

Challenges
- facilitate direct experience of content and direct discovery of key interpretive concepts (especially threshold concepts); lectures/
- guide the articulation in reflective self-feedback
- develop verbalizing skills without going to the expense of inclusiveness (Universal Learning)
- devise assessment that matches outcomes, is integrated in learning, and is varied


Goals - learning outcomes
... a demonstrable ability to:

- [analysis] identify the key linguistic and cultural features of early Italian culture (before the 17th century);
- [valuing] interpret specific cultural expressions making explicit the values underlying them;
- [problem solving] source relevant information about early Italian cultural expressions and discuss them competently;
- [communication] articulate an informed and reasoned view about specific aspects of Italy's early cultural history


]]> 2018-11-01 12:02:04 UTC https://padlet.com/paolo_acquaviva/module_design_project/wish/299310176 sketch design paolo_acquaviva https://padlet.com/paolo_acquaviva/module_design_project/wish/299568515 2018-11-01 19:52:36 UTC https://padlet.com/paolo_acquaviva/module_design_project/wish/299568515 Resources, access, Universal Design paolo_acquaviva https://padlet.com/paolo_acquaviva/module_design_project/wish/299569352
- Bibliography (including items uploaded on Brightspace)
- Lecture slides, uploaded
- lecturettes, short 1-page summaries, one for each
- CLIC: Cultura e lingua italiana on CD (multimedia resource)

Multiple representation: activities involve (sometimes require) clips, images, as well as texts;
Multiple action/expression: essay writing, but also personal presentation and group project, open about preferred medium/media (eg no bar to a video review)
Personal engagement: presentation relates work to personal sphere; problem-solving makes room for personalized paths and choices (connecting them to general skills); group problem-solving task requires students to structure their work and formulate intermediate/end goals.]]> 2018-11-01 19:55:16 UTC https://padlet.com/paolo_acquaviva/module_design_project/wish/299569352 Scaffolding - logical and chronological structure paolo_acquaviva https://padlet.com/paolo_acquaviva/module_design_project/wish/299575545 tentative:
Lectures + tutorials  (for 4-5 weeks)   >    
                                                           essay    >                                                                                                              Week 4 or 5
                                                                  lectures (for 2-3 weeks)   >     
                                                                                          group project    >                                                                  Weeks 6-8
                                                                                                                 lectures (for 2-3 weeks)  >
                                                                                                                                                personal project            Weeks 10-12

essay to come first (on a limited range of topics): uses early stage of module for writing, focuses students on reading from the start;
lectures + tutorials to be interspersed to projects, to correct and consolidate learning (constant feedback);
personal project to come last, as the exercise on which students invest most personally.]]> 2018-11-01 20:11:59 UTC https://padlet.com/paolo_acquaviva/module_design_project/wish/299575545 (for background, see also the other Padlet) paolo_acquaviva https://padlet.com/paolo_acquaviva/module_design_project/wish/299577597 2018-11-01 20:14:56 UTC https://padlet.com/paolo_acquaviva/module_design_project/wish/299577597