Your name: Baden Myers
Field or discipline: Engineering
Program:
Course: Water resource management
Year level: Postgraduate
Class size: 20
Activity type: Practice-based learning, Computer pool practical class
Description: The class demographic was mostly English as another language students (17/20) most of which were from the Yellow River Conserancy Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources, China. Students were guided through tutorial problem using the simulation software MUSIC for modeling storm water flows. The class was very practical, and conceptually simple and introductory. Some problems did arise when more complex matters had to be glossed over due to the difficulty and time limitations. I supported the session with slides and which were annotated - was important to put myself in the position of the student and try and think what I did not understand when I was using the software and what I've found daunting - and translate that into the support that you provide the students.
Application: Using computers to assist student learning through problem-solving with professionally-relevant software will always engage students.
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I was once very uninterested in storm water management. That changed in June 2008, when I watched storm water manage to swallow most of the heart of Cedar Rapids. Now storm water has my undivided attention.
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