Summer Preparation Page

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Summer 1 Home Page

EventSchedule*
Office Hours with TAsMondays: 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. US Central Time
Zoom Details
EPOL 534: Assessment for Learning and
EPOL 583: eLearning Ecologies and
EPSY 560: Technology and Educational Change and
EPSY 559: Advanced Learning Technologies
Mondays: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. US Central Time
(all courses meet on the same Zoom session)

EPOL 586, 587, 588, 591, 599: Exam-Dissertation Sequence
Group Advising Sessions
Mondays: 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. US Central Time
Occasional workshops held at 5:30 or 6:30 p.m. US Central Time; refer to the Happening Now page for the most up-to-date schedule
Zoom Details
EPOL 586, 587, 588, 591, 599: Exam-Dissertation Sequence
Group Advising Sessions
Tuesdays: 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. US Central Time
Occasionally cancelled due to scheduling conflicts; refer to the Happening Now page for the most up-to-date schedule
Zoom Details

Summer 1 Course Links

Summer 1 Synchronous Session

Summer Term 1 (05/16 – 06/26): EPOL 583, EPOL 534, EPSY 559, and EPSY 560

Synchronous Session Meeting Times

EPOL 534: Assessment for Learning, EPOL 583: e-Learning Ecologies, EPSY 559: Advanced Learning Technologies, and EPSY 560: Technology and Educational Changes

  • Office Hours: Mondays, 5:30 – 6:30 pm (US Central Time)
  • Live session: Mondays, 6:30 – 7:30 pm (US Central Time)
Zoom Details
Recordings

Links will be added within a day of the class session date. Recordings are only available for 30 days.
The chat can be seen after opening this link, on the right part, by clicking chat messages.

Summer 1 Weekly Schedule – New

Summer Term A Week #Week Start and
Synchronous Session Date
Week EndTopic(s)Action Items
Before Week 1Before Week 1June 26thPre-Course Preparation
Get started with your LDL course!
NOTE: Work is required prior to the first live session
NOTE: If you have not taken a course from Dr. Cope, Dr. Kalantzis, or Dr. Francis previously, complete the Onboarding Series
Week 1

1st Live Session
Week 1

June 26th

1st Live Session
July 2ndEPSY 408 topics:
1. Foundations of Educational Psychology (Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope)
2. Brain Developmentalism (Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope)

EPOL 486 / SPED 413 topics:
1. Human Diversity and Learner Transformation – Mary Kalantzis
2. Learner Differences in Theory and Practice – Bill Cope

ERAM 557 topics:
1. On Interpretive Methods and the Meaning of Meanings
Action Items due by end of the week at 11 p.m. CT
-Admin Update Comment(s) Due
-Individual Community Update 1 Due
-Sign up for your desired project option (see the Project description webpage for more details)






Week 2Week 2

July 3rd
July 9thEPSY 408 topics:
3. Social Cognitivism (Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope)

EPOL 486 / SPED 413 topics:
3A. Race and Cultural Diversity in US Education – James D. Anderson
3B. Segregation, Integration, Desegregation and Resegregation – William T. Trent

ERAM 557 topics:
2. Reference
Action Items due by end of the week at 11 p.m. CT
-Admin Update Comment(s) Due
-Individual Community Update 2 Due
-Confirm you received the project/work request notification
-Draft Version of your Work – Do Not Submit, only Save it as a new Version


Week 3Week 3
July 10th
July 16thEPSY 408 topics:
4. The Social and Emotional Conditions of Learning: The Case of Bullying in Schools (Dorothy Espelage)

EPOL 486 / SPED 413 topics:
4. Should Education be a Right? Historical Perspectives – Christopher M. Span

ERAM 557 topics:
3. Agency
Action Items due by end of the week at 11 p.m. CT
-Admin Update Comment(s) Due
-Individual Community Update 3 Due
-AI Reviews on your latest version in CGMap Due
-Work Revisions based on AI Reviews and submission for Peer Reviews Due



Week 4Week 4
July 17th
July 23rdEPSY 408 topics:
5. Student Development (Denice Hood)

EPOL 486 / SPED 413 topics:
5. Diversity in American Public Education – Yoon Pak

ERAM 557 topics:
4. Structure
Action Items due by end of the week at 11 p.m. CT
-Admin Update Comment(s) Due
-Individual Community Update 4 Due
-Peer Reviews Due


Week 5Week 5
July 24th
July 30thEPSY 408 topics:
6. Productive Struggle in Learning (George Reese)

EPOL 486 / SPED 413 topics:
6. Postcolonial Theory and Education – Cameron McCarthy

ERAM 557 topics:
5. Context
Action Items due by end of the week at 11 p.m. CT
-Admin Update Comment(s) Due
-AI Review Due
-Project Revisions Due (for TA and then Instructor review)



Week 6Week 6
July 31st
August 3rdEPSY 408 topics:
7. Putting Quantitative Psychology Research to Work: Classifying English Language Learners (Joe Robinson-Cimpian)

EPOL 486 / SPED 413 topics:
7. The Inclusive School – Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope
ERAM 557 topics:
6. Interest
Action Items due by end of the week at 11 p.m. CT
-Admin Update Comment(s) Due
-Individual Community Update 5 Due
-Final Project Revisions Due (for final Instructor review)
-Complete any remaining work for the courses by the end of this week and the Post-Course Survey
-Check your Analytics to confirm your tentative final grade; contact a TA with any questions or concerns
Week 7N/A for SummerN/A for Summer
Week 8N/A for SummerN/A for Summer

Summer 1 Weekly Schedule

Still reflects two works

Before 15 May, 2023

Pre-Course Preparation

Get started with your LDL course!
NOTE: Work is required prior to the first live session
NOTE: If you have not taken a course from Dr. Cope, Dr. Kalantzis, or Dr. Francis previously, complete the Onboarding Series

Week 1

EPOL 534 topics:
1. Intelligence Tests: The First Modern Assessments

EPOL 583 topics:
1. The Big Picture: A Course Map

EPSY 559 topics:
1. Learning Management Systems

EPSY 560 topics:
1. Theory: Multimodal Knowledge Work

Action Items due by end of the week at 11 p.m. CT
-Admin Update Comment(s) Due
-Individual Community Update 1 Due
-Sign up for your desired project option (see the Project description webpage for more details)

15 to 21 May, 2023
15 May, 2023

1st Live Session

Related: Live Session Details and Recordings

Project Request Notification Sent

Check your CGScholar notifications to accept the work request. This is sent based on who has signed up in the Project Sign-up Sheet; see Current Courses; if you sign up past the deadline, fill in the spreadsheet and notify one of the TAs to send you the notification

18 May, 2023
22 to 28 May, 2023

Week 2

EPOL 534 topics:
2. Select and Supply Response Assessments

EPOL 583 topics:
2. Ubiquitous Learning – Spatio-Temporal Dimensions of Learning

EPSY 559 topics:
2. Social Media and Peer Interaction

EPSY 560 topics:
2. Practice: Digital Classroom Discourse

Action Items due by end of the week at 11 p.m. CT
-Admin Update Comment(s) Due
-Individual Community Update 2 Due
-Confirm you received the project/work request notification
-Draft Version of your Work – Do Not Submit, only Save it as a new Version.

2nd Live Session

Related: Live Session Details and Recordings

22 May, 2023
29 May to 4 June, 2023

Week 3

EPOL 534 topics:
3. Standards-Based and Alternative Practices of Assessment

EPOL 583 topics:
3. Active Knowledge Making – Epistemic Dimensions of Learning
4. Multimodal Meaning – Discursive Dimensions of Learning

EPSY 559 topics:
3. Adaptive and Personalized Learning

EPSY 560 topics:
3. Practice: Collaborative e-Learning
3A. Practice: Collaborative e-Learning

Action Items due by end of the week at 11 p.m. CT
-Admin Update Comment(s) Due
-Individual Community Update 3 Due
-AI Reviews on your latest version in CGMap Due
-Work Revisions based on AI Reviews and submission for Peer Reviews Due

No Live Session

Related: Live Session Details and Recordings

29 May, 2023
31 May, 2023

AI Reviews on your draft Work in CGMap

Due Date

Work Revisions based on AI Reviews and Submit the new version for Peer Reviews

Due Date

4 June, 2023
5 to 11 June, 2023

Week 4

EPOL 534 topics:
4. New Opportunities for Assessment in the Digital Age
5. Learning Analytics: A Case Study of CGScholar

EPOL 583 topics:
5. Recursive Feedback – Evaluative Dimensions of Learning

EPSY 559 topics:
4. Games and Simulations

EPSY 560 topics:
4. Practice: The Flipped Classroom
4A. Theory: Digital Affordances

Action Items due by end of the week at 11 p.m. CT
-Admin Update Comment(s) Due
-Individual Community Update 4 Due
-Peer Review Due

Submit Peer Reviews

Due

11 June, 2023
12 to 18 June, 2023

Week 5

EPOL 534 topics:
6. Educational Data Mining

EPOL 583 topics:
6. Collaborative Intelligence – Social Dimensions of Learning
7. Metacognition – Cognitive Dimensions of Learning

EPSY 559 topics:
5. Differentiated Learning

EPSY 560 topics:
5. Practice: The Content of Curriculum

Action Items due by end of the week at 11 p.m. CT
-Admin Update Comment(s) Due
-Project Revisions Due (for TA and then Instructor review)

Work Revisions and Submissions

Due

18 June, 2023
19 to 25 June, 2023

Week 6

EPOL 534 topics:
7. Educational Evaluation

EPOL 583 topics:
8. Differentiated Learning – Comparative Dimensions of Learning

EPSY 559 topics:
6. Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Learning Analytics

EPSY 560 topics:
6. Theory: Productive Diversity
7. Practice: Assessment for Learning

Action Items due by end of the week at 11 p.m. CT
-Admin Update Comment(s) Due
-Individual Community Update 5 Due
-Final Project Revisions Due (for final Instructor review)
-Complete any remaining work for the courses by the end of this week and the Post-Course Survey
-Check your Analytics to confirm your tentative final grade; contact a TA with any questions or concerns

Last Day of the Term

25 June, 2022

Missing extra classes that we added in 2023

Summer 2 Home Page

EventSchedule*
Office Hours with TAsMondays: 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. US Central Time
Zoom Details
EPSY 408: Learning and Human Development with Educational Technology and
EPOL 486: New Media and Learner Differences
Mondays: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. US Central Time
(408 and 486 meet on the same Zoom session)
ERAM 557: Meaning Patterns, Interpretive MethodsMondays: 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. US Central Time
Zoom Details
EPOL 586, 587, 588, 591, 599: Exam-Dissertation Sequence
Group Advising Sessions
No Scheduled Sessions; Occasional Workshops may be scheduled; refer to the Happening Now page for the most up-to-date schedule

Summer 2 Course Links

Office Hours: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. CT

CourseKey Links
EPOL 486: New Media and Learner Differences Synchronous Session: Mondays 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. CT
Course Community link
-Learning Module link
Oral/Video Presentation Sign-up Sheet
Work Type Sign-Up Sheet
AI Review
EPSY 408: Learning and Human Development with Educational Technologies Synchronous Session: Mondays 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. CT
Course Community link
Learning Module link
Oral/Video Presentation Sign-up Sheet
Work Type Sign-Up Sheet
AI Review
ERAM 557: Meaning Patterns (Interpretive Research Methods) -Synchronous Session: Mondays 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. CT
Course Community link
-Learning Module link
Oral/Video Presentation Sign-up Sheet
AI Review

Summer 2 Synchronous Sessions

Summer Term 2 (06/26 – 08/03): EPSY 408, EPOL 486, and ERAM 557

Office Hours for all Summer 2 Courses: 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. CT
Synchronous Session Meeting Times

EPSY 408: Learning and Human Development with Educational Technology and
EPOL 486: New Media and Learner Differences

  • Office Hours: Mondays, 12:30 – 1:30 pm (US Central Time)
  • Live session: Mondays, 1:30 – 2:30 pm (US Central Time)

ERAM 557: Meaning Patterns (Interpretive Research Methods)

  • Office Hours: Mondays, 1:30 – 2:30 pm (US Central Time)
  • Live session: Mondays, 2:30 – 3:30 pm (US Central Time)
Zoom Details

EPSY 408:Learning and Human Development with Educational Technologies, and EPOL 486: New Media and Learner Differences

ERAM 557: Meaning Patterns (Interpretive Research Methods)

Recordings

Links will be added within a day of the class session date. Recordings are only available for 30 days.
The chat can be seen after opening this link, on the right part, by clicking chat messages.

EPSY 408: Learning and Human Development with Educational Technology and EPOL 486: New Media and Learner Differences

  1. July 10th
  2. July 17th

ERAM 557: Meaning Patterns (Interpretive Research Methods)

  1. July 10th
  2. July 17th

Summer 2 Weekly Schedule

Before 26 June, 2023

Pre-Course Preparation

Get started with your LDL course!
NOTE: Work is required prior to the first live session
NOTE: If you have not taken a course from Dr. Cope, Dr. Kalantzis, or Dr. Francis previously, complete the Onboarding Series

Week 1

EPSY 408 topics:
1. Foundations of Educational Psychology (Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope)
2. Brain Developmentalism (Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope)

EPOL 486 / SPED 413 topics:
1. Human Diversity and Learner Transformation – Mary Kalantzis
2. Learner Differences in Theory and Practice – Bill Cope

ERAM 557 topics:
1. On Interpretive Methods and the Meaning of Meanings

Action Items due by end of the week at 11 p.m. CT
-Admin Update Comment(s) Due
-Individual Community Update 1 Due
-Sign up for your desired project option (see the Project description webpage for more details)

26 June to 2 July, 2023
26 June, 2023

1st Live Session

Related: Live Session Details and Recordings

Project Request Notification Sent

Check your CGScholar notifications to accept the work request. This is sent based on who has signed up in the Project Sign-up Sheet; see Current Courses; if you sign up past the deadline, fill in the spreadsheet and notify one of the TAs to send you the notification

28 June, 2023
3 to 9 July, 2023

Week 2

EPSY 408 topics:
3. Social Cognitivism (Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope)

EPOL 486 / SPED 413 topics:
3A. Race and Cultural Diversity in US Education – James D. Anderson
3B. Segregation, Integration, Desegregation and Resegregation – William T. Trent

ERAM 557 topics:
2. Reference

Action Items due by end of the week at 11 p.m. CT
-Admin Update Comment(s) Due
-Individual Community Update 2 Due
-Confirm you received the project/work request notification
-Draft Version of your Work – Do Not Submit, only Save it as a new Version

2nd Live Session

Due Date

3 July, 2023
10 to 16 July, 2023

Week 3

EPSY 408 topics:
4. The Social and Emotional Conditions of Learning: The Case of Bullying in Schools (Dorothy Espelage)

EPOL 486 / SPED 413 topics:
4. Should Education be a Right? Historical Perspectives – Christopher M. Span

ERAM 557 topics:
3. Agency

Action Items due by end of the week at 11 p.m. CT
-Admin Update Comment(s) Due
-Individual Community Update 3 Due
-AI Reviews on your latest version in CGMap Due
-Work Revisions based on AI Reviews and submission for Peer Reviews Due

3rd Live Session

Related: Live Session Details and Recordings

10 July, 2023
12 July, 2023

AI Reviews on your draft Work in CGMap

Due Date

Work Revisions based on AI Reviews and Submit the new version for Peer Reviews

Due

16 July, 2023
17 to 23 July, 2023

Week 4

EPSY 408 topics:
5. Student Development (Denice Hood)

EPOL 486 / SPED 413 topics:
5. Diversity in American Public Education – Yoon Pak

ERAM 557 topics:
4. Structure

Action Items due by end of the week at 11 p.m. CT
-Admin Update Comment(s) Due
-Individual Community Update 4 Due
-Peer Reviews Due

4th Live Session

Related: Live Session Details and Recordings

17 July, 2023
By 23 July, 2023

Submit Peer Reviews

Due Date

Week 5

EPSY 408 topics:
6. Productive Struggle in Learning (George Reese)

EPOL 486 / SPED 413 topics:
6. Postcolonial Theory and Education – Cameron McCarthy

ERAM 557 topics:
5. Context

Action Items due by end of the week at 11 p.m. CT
-Admin Update Comment(s) Due
-AI Review Due
-Project Revisions Due (for TA and then Instructor review)

24 to 30 July, 2023
24 July, 2023

5th Live Session

Related: Live Session Details and Recordings

Work Revisions and Submissions

Due Date

30 July, 2023
31 July to 4 August, 2023

Week 6

EPSY 408 topics:
7. Putting Quantitative Psychology Research to Work: Classifying English Language Learners (Joe Robinson-Cimpian)

EPOL 486 / SPED 413 topics:
7. The Inclusive School – Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope
ERAM 557 topics:
6. Interest

Action Items due by end of the week at 11 p.m. CT
-Admin Update Comment(s) Due
-Individual Community Update 5 Due
-Final Project Revisions Due (for final Instructor review)
-Complete any remaining work for the courses by the end of this week and the Post-Course Survey
-Check your Analytics to confirm your tentative final grade; contact a TA with any questions or concerns

6th Live Session

Related: Live Session Details and Recordings

31 July, 2023
4 August, 2023

Last Day of the Term