Final Exam
Date and time : Dec. 17 2-4 pm
Format: One Essay Question
Objective: Be able to demonstrate "critical" understanding of the key theme(s) and be able to connect these with your project and personal learning.
Requirements: A minimum of 5 concepts draw from various weeks and show their connections with each other and with the key theme you have chosen.
Grade: 35%
NOTE:: The writing of the final will take place in the Library Instruction Lab - AC286A
Here is the link to finding the room: http://guides.library.utoronto.ca/content.php?pid=524593&sid=4315374#15746250
IDSB10 Note taking for Nov. 26
Exam questions:
Essay -
proper introduction
body of your argument
conclusions
Connections with ideas discussed in this course. Specifically connect ideas to the concept note you worked on, it’s only a starting point, how does it connect with at least five other concepts throughout the course?
Remember the 5 Cs! They are your rubric.
Make sure to go back and do the readings/watch the videos that you didn’t get time for. Read through the ideas in the wiki - look at how you can connect up the various ideas, theories, frameworks, ways of critically analyzing concepts.
All papers have to be unique - this is not a group project.
Post your suggested ideas on the wiki. We and your peers will provide feedback.
Length? 5 double-spaced, 1500 words.
What have you learned from the projects, and how this connect to the five key ideas you have learnt from the course?
Rubric for final Reflection Question
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Marks
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Inadequate
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Fair
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Good
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Excellent
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1. Did the student identify clearly a key lesson learned from the project and why it is being highlighted?
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5
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1
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2-3
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4
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5
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2. Did the linking of concepts demonstrate the 4 Cs?
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2.1 Context
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4
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1
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2
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3
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4
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2.2 Connection
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4
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1
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2
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3
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4
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2.3 Connotation
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4
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1
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2
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3
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4
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2.4 Complexity
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4
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1
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2
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3
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4
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4. Overall coherence of the essay:
Did the essay have a clear introduction, a body with the full illustration or argument, and a conclusion drawing the key points together?
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4
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5. Enrichment of the essay: Did the student provide supporting examples, other case studies, and appropriate references? Is it written in a creative and engaging manner?
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5
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1
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2-3
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4
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5
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TOTAL
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30
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7 or less
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14-16
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23
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30
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Comments (28)
Charmaine Ramirez said
at 6:22 pm on Dec 15, 2013
Hello Professor Chan and Stian, do we use our personal computers for the final exam?
Leslie Chan said
at 9:30 pm on Dec 15, 2013
I have just secured the computer lab in the library for the final. I am waiting for the librarian to tell me the room number. Students will be using the workstations in the lab, each is connected to the Internet. Remember you are allowed to bring an outline of the essay.
Hannah Song said
at 6:43 pm on Dec 16, 2013
Are we going to the computer lab in the library directly at the time of examination? Or are we meeting in the MW110 as that is the room assigned according to registrar office, and head to the lab together? If we're allowed access to the internet, are we also allowed to visit other websites other than the wiki? What are the limitations on the materials we post on wiki for the reference for the final essay? I assume that we are not entitled to write out an essay and just copy and paste for the finals, so there must be some kind of limitations I suppose..?
Charmaine Ramirez said
at 9:58 pm on Dec 15, 2013
thank you for confirming Professor Chan.
Diana Jisun Lee said
at 4:21 am on Dec 16, 2013
Hello, professor Chan, you want us to specifically connect what we learned to our own designated concept note theme, right? Since we can't talk about everything we learned in 3 pages, can we choose to focus our paper on discussing a specific lecture that addresses and is highly relevant to our theme page? I was planning to explain the 5 Cs, drawn from the social media, citizen partnership, and technology lectures, and from the theme page and our project. Is this okay? I am still confused by the structure of the reflection essay...
Diana Jisun Lee said
at 11:09 am on Dec 16, 2013
And also, in our group project page, we already discussed the 5Cs in regard to theatre for development in Bihar. I am not too sure the 5Cs in context of what? we were supposed to answer for our reflection paper given that you want us to explore the 5Cs from the project.
Leslie Chan said
at 3:03 pm on Dec 16, 2013
The 5 concepts are supposed to be drawn from the various lectures, and you are then supposed to connect these concepts with one key lesson you drawn from your project/concept note. This is as clearly as I can explain the requirements. Maybe the rubric will help.
Alejandro said
at 1:31 pm on Dec 16, 2013
My idea was to explain the gap that we identified in our project regarding the lack of academic and public involvement in critically (5C) understanding and studying the role of ICT in the development context. I was specifically going to focus on power dynamics, and pull from lectures such as the one of wikipedia! however now I feel that this is too general? what do you think
Leslie Chan said
at 3:04 pm on Dec 16, 2013
It's not too general provided that you can isolate a specific "context" that allow you to go deeper into the theme or lesson you have chose to focus on. It will also depend on the 5 concepts you have chosen to connect.
Ethan Way said
at 2:53 pm on Dec 16, 2013
Hello Professor Chan! I was wondering what you mean when you say that students are required to draw upon at least 5 concepts? Is a concept any idea brought up in a specific reading/video/class discussion, or does it refer to something else? Clarification on this would be greatly appreciated. Additionally, is there any chance that students will receive feedback on our concept notes before tomorrow's exam?
Leslie Chan said
at 3:15 pm on Dec 16, 2013
We've done mapping exercises with a number of concepts the first few weeks of class, and we also identified a large number of concepts from week to week. I am not sure why it is still not clear.
FOr example, on the week of Nov. 9, these concepts were posted on the wiki page:
"digital activism, "distributed truth engine" (in Hani's first interview), continuum of activism, techno-pessimism, peer-to-peer democracy, memetic ideology, public sphere, virtual sphere, political conservatism (refer back to the conservatist's dilemma)"
They were drawn from the readings, videos and class discussion. And over the weeks, we covered a diversity of concepts, but many of them converge, as we tried to demonstrate repeatedly.
Charmaine Ramirez said
at 4:30 pm on Dec 16, 2013
Hello Professor Chan, I sort of have the same question as Ethan. I do see the list of concepts that we've done through the mapping exercises, and list in some of the other weeks.
For example, I would like to talk about the Coordination Problem vs. Institutions that Clay Shirky discusses in his video. However, I don't see this specific term listed as a concept. Am I able to use it in my final essay or does it have to be one of the concepts specifically listed in any of the various weeks?
Leslie Chan said
at 9:46 pm on Dec 16, 2013
As long as it is a concept that came from any of the learning materials or discussions, it would be fair game. But you should be explicit with regard to where the concept came from.
Sydney Tan said
at 4:30 pm on Dec 16, 2013
Hi Prof. Chan, will a 3-page outline be fine to bring to the exam? There are huge gaps in between paragraphs when it was printed out though. What are the limits as to what we can bring in?
Leslie Chan said
at 9:47 pm on Dec 16, 2013
Our agreement is to have a one-page outline at most. It is meant to be a mnemonic device, not a full scale answer.
Alejandro said
at 5:14 pm on Dec 16, 2013
Can we use ideas from other groups?
Alejandro said
at 6:44 pm on Dec 16, 2013
Is systematic bias a good concept?
Leslie Chan said
at 9:47 pm on Dec 16, 2013
Where did it come from?
Alejandro said
at 10:00 pm on Dec 16, 2013
it comes the lecture regarding Wikipedia from the reading about makmende, they talk about a systematic bias that is part of the reason that people decide to post in the english encyclopedia instead of their own languages. However the idea of a systematic bias I believe relates to other factors of class discussion as well as to our concept note.
Leslie Chan said
at 10:12 pm on Dec 16, 2013
Yes, systematic bias is indeed one of those recurrent theme/concept...
Daniela said
at 7:58 pm on Dec 16, 2013
If i want to draw on a reading not directly linked to one of the concepts listed and use concepts within that reading (im thinking the first week's intro readings) should I not use it then and just focus on the weeks with specific concepts identified later in the course?
Alejandro said
at 8:40 pm on Dec 16, 2013
I am actually doing the same thing! I think that the concepts dont have to be exclusively in regards to the week he posted them in. Probably by identifying the relationship between themes in different lectures we can demonstrate the connections aspects of 4 Cs.
Leslie Chan said
at 9:48 pm on Dec 16, 2013
Precisely.
Diana Jisun Lee said
at 8:53 pm on Dec 16, 2013
can we write in first persons? like I or we?
Alejandro said
at 9:19 pm on Dec 16, 2013
I think since we are writing about our learning in the course it would be understandable to write in first person
Leslie Chan said
at 9:49 pm on Dec 16, 2013
But do so sparingly.
Alejandro said
at 10:28 pm on Dec 16, 2013
should we post our outline in the wiki? or should we print it and bring it into the exam?
Leslie Chan said
at 11:17 pm on Dec 16, 2013
Print it or write it, but don't put it on the wiki.
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