ask students take a picture of the location, do a rubbing of an engraving with trace paper and charcoals, and\/or do some written reflection in that place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nlet\u2019s say you have five tasks to which you want groups of students to navigate and complete \u2013 one could be a kind of written assignment, two could be more problem-solving tasks, one could be a group interpretation of the meaning of a place, and one could be a simple photo proving that they had arrived and noticed something noteworthy about the location.\u00a0 you might find that the variety of \u201ctask types\u201d will differently engage your students and provide new ways of learning the material.\u00a0 for some of your students, it will be the navigation and finding the cache that gets them most excited (especially if you have introduced this activity as a race or competition).<\/p>\n
in response to your question regarding assessment, you should think carefully about how you debrief this activity in conversation with your students.\u00a0 maybe you want each group to share particular artifacts that they have either created or found at locations.\u00a0 perhaps you want students to discuss how each location and task relates to bigger disciplinary ideas that are important for the course.\u00a0 maybe you want students to do an individual, follow-up assignment at home that synthesize some of the major points you were hoping to get across via a geocache.\u00a0 regardless, make sure you do some kind of debrief or wrap-up so you can assess both what your students learned, and how well this activity went for your own pedagogical objectives and toolkit.<\/p>\n
good luck and have fun!<\/p>\n
professor pedagogy<\/p>\n
references:<\/strong><\/p>\nhall, r. & greeno, j. g. (2008). conceptual learning. t. good (ed.),\u00a021<\/em>st\u00a0century education: a reference handbook, (pp. 212-221)<\/em>. sage.<\/p>\nhutchins, e. (1995). cognition in the wild . cambridge, ma: mit press.<\/p>\n
lave, j. & wenger, e. (1991). situated learning. le-gitimate peripheral participation. cambridge, uk: cambridge university press.<\/p>\n
leander, k.m., phillips, n.c. & taylor, k.h. (2010). the changing social spaces of learning: mapping new mobilities. review of research in education 34, 329-394.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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