"Instructional Design Essentials" Week 1 (Part 2)

That last post was getting long, so here's the second part of my Week 1 assignment:

Fink's Guide, p11-12 ("Questions for Formulating Significant Learning Goals")
A year (or more) after this course is over, I want and hope that students will ______.

1. Foundational Knowledge (key information and key ideas):
I want students to be able to search for and access library resources (mainly books and journal articles), to evaluate these sources and those they find on the web, to have strategies for brainstorming search terms and for broadening or narrowing their searches.

2. Application Goals (thinking [critical thinking, creative thinking, practical thinking] and skills):
My main application goal at this point is have students develop their critical thinking skills. I want them to evaluate their sources carefully, and get a sense of when it's appropriate to use a particular source and when other sources might better match their needs.

3. Integration Goals (connections between ideas, perspectives, and students' personal/social/work lives):
I hope they can adapt and integrate the evaluation strategies we use in class to their larger information landscape (online and television news, political commentary, blogs, other popular/general reading, etc.).

4. Human Dimensions Goals (learning about themselves and others):
I hope my students learn that they have a unique voice...one that has a place in scholarly discourse. I want them to know they don't have to just parrot or report on what others have already thought or said on a topic, but rather that they can synthesize information and meaningfully contribute to the conversation.

5. Caring Goals (adopting values or changing their feelings, interests, or ideas):
Hmm. I'll have to think about this one a little. I want students to care about their studies, what they're learning, and make the most of their time in college?

6. "Learning-How-To-Learn" Goals (will students learn to be good students in this type of course, how to learn about this particular subject, how to become a self-directed learner, etc.?):
I'm very interested in helping students become independent, self-directed learners. That whole  "give-a-man-a-fish" versus "teach-a-man-to-fish" idea.