Prezi on MLA Citations and Plagiarism
The media-infused presentation I created can easily help to foster the development of both the disciplined and synthesizing minds. In Chapter 2 of "Five Minds for the Future", Howard Gardner argues that, "The training of disciplinarians takes place through ... the modeling of ways of thinking (“here’s how we go about proving a theorem of this sort”); the successful completion of certain signature assignments (“that’s a good analysis of Sonnet 23; let’s see whether you can carry out an analogous interpretation of Sonnet 36”); the provision of timely, useful feedback on earlier disciplinary efforts...and the passing through successive hoops en route to becoming a master of the discipline (“you’ve now learned how to write a good lead to the story; the next job is to order the paragraphs so that the important points will survive, even if the story has to be cut in half”)". I realize that is an exceptionally large quote to pull from the text; however, I feel as though I highlighted the key portions that are relevant to the presentation I created. The Prezi Presentation I created accomplishes the above steps from Gardner that delineate how to train the disciplined mind. This Prezi models how to go about properly citing texts in MLA, it shows the success criteria, it could be used to provide timely, useful feedback, and it scaffolds the "passing though successive hoops" on the way to mastery.
This Prezi presentation also helps to foster the developments of a synthesized mind. Works cited pages are a literal demonstrations of synthesis in themselves. Further, the arrangement of this Prezi allows for it to be used in rather versatile ways. After initial instruction, students can come back to it as a means of reference so that they cited correctly in future assignments. It also provides a bridge for beginning interdisciplinary work. In Chapter Three of his book, Gardner states, "Perhaps the most ambitious form of synthesis occurs in interdisciplinary work" and "Even when students have begun to master the disciplines singularly, there is no guarantee that a combination of disciplines will be appropriately or productively linked". Learning how to cite sources correctly allows students to properly integrate sources of various origins and disciplines, thus accomplishing "the most ambitious form of synthesis". The mix of disciplines would then have been appropriately and productively linked, as students will have been able to use the Prezi on proper citations and plagiarism to accomplish this.
The media-infused presentation I created can easily help to foster the development of both the disciplined and synthesizing minds. In Chapter 2 of "Five Minds for the Future", Howard Gardner argues that, "The training of disciplinarians takes place through ... the modeling of ways of thinking (“here’s how we go about proving a theorem of this sort”); the successful completion of certain signature assignments (“that’s a good analysis of Sonnet 23; let’s see whether you can carry out an analogous interpretation of Sonnet 36”); the provision of timely, useful feedback on earlier disciplinary efforts...and the passing through successive hoops en route to becoming a master of the discipline (“you’ve now learned how to write a good lead to the story; the next job is to order the paragraphs so that the important points will survive, even if the story has to be cut in half”)". I realize that is an exceptionally large quote to pull from the text; however, I feel as though I highlighted the key portions that are relevant to the presentation I created. The Prezi Presentation I created accomplishes the above steps from Gardner that delineate how to train the disciplined mind. This Prezi models how to go about properly citing texts in MLA, it shows the success criteria, it could be used to provide timely, useful feedback, and it scaffolds the "passing though successive hoops" on the way to mastery.
This Prezi presentation also helps to foster the developments of a synthesized mind. Works cited pages are a literal demonstrations of synthesis in themselves. Further, the arrangement of this Prezi allows for it to be used in rather versatile ways. After initial instruction, students can come back to it as a means of reference so that they cited correctly in future assignments. It also provides a bridge for beginning interdisciplinary work. In Chapter Three of his book, Gardner states, "Perhaps the most ambitious form of synthesis occurs in interdisciplinary work" and "Even when students have begun to master the disciplines singularly, there is no guarantee that a combination of disciplines will be appropriately or productively linked". Learning how to cite sources correctly allows students to properly integrate sources of various origins and disciplines, thus accomplishing "the most ambitious form of synthesis". The mix of disciplines would then have been appropriately and productively linked, as students will have been able to use the Prezi on proper citations and plagiarism to accomplish this.
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