Category: Educational psychology

21st Century Topics – Paper and presentation Description: Students will be exploring a contemporary topic in the field of Educational Psychology, or a social-welfare that may be relevant to the field. See syllabus for expectations.
Name of Graded Assignment 21st Century Topics – Presentation and paper 
Course Outcome Fulfilled: C2, C5
Grading Value: 15% of Total Course Grade
Assignment Description: Students will be exploring a contemporary topic in the field of Educational Psychology, or a social-welfare that may be relevant to the field. 
Choose one topic/subject/issue that has interested/impacted/motivated/inspired you this semester. Suggestions are posted on Brightspace. Student topics must be approved by the instructor. 
Information regarding the topic should be research-based, well-thought out, fully developed, and clearly presented with detailed and comprehensive explanation.
Your thesis should be easily identified and have research-based (theory) foundation for its consideration
Consider the following:
Theory – base of researcher/educational theories/educational theorists
Knowledge – information; thesis and analysis and information that supports your thesis
Practice – classroom pedagogy, implications, support services, accommodations- Theory – base of researcher/educational theories/educational theorists
Identify and explain the effect it has on professional practice
Why it is important/impactful for the student.  
Why it is important/impactful for the educator to consider.
Your explanation should be clearly and professionally presented.
Your explanation should not be in the first person 
Process and requirements
First, post the 5-8 min recorded presentation to the discussion forum. Remember no PPT. 
Second, respond to two of your classmates recorded lectures in the discussion forum using the 3CQ method as noted on the course syllabus. 
Third, maybe take some notes on your peers feedback from your recorded lecture. Email the instructor immediately if you do not hear anything from your peers. However, if you hear from one, then that is fine. 
Next, save the feedback because the feedback could help you further your research on your topic. 
From there, you will compose the 5-8 pages (not including cover page and bibliography), double-spaced, following APA format 21st Century topic paper and create a recorded presentation, this time with a PPT discussing your topic and providing more context along with explaining your findings in the PPT. This time the PPT should be between 10 to 15 minutes long. Upload the recorded PPT with your voice to the shell labeled as “Upload the 10-15 minute Power Point with voice recording file here”.
The 21st Century Topic paper must include 
Cover Page
Body of Paper
Bibliography: should include no less than 3 scholarly resources about your topic. One of the sources must be the EDUC 511 course textbook. 
I would like to focus this paper on the cognitive, social and emotional development of school aged children. Drawing connections from theorist like Piaget and Vygotsky and contructionist theories. 

Establishing Flow Within the Classroom.
Develop a seven (7) slide PowerPoint presentation (slide count does not include title slide or reference slides) on the information that you would share with your colleagues regarding the topic of flow.
Be sure to include the following:
Cite at least two sources on flow in the classroom (including at least one peer-reviewed article not listed in the syllabus)
Developing flow in the classroom
Positive psychology as it related to flow in education
Transpersonal psychology and transpersonal education
A summary slide
The PowerPoint presentation should be professional in appearance, and any images should enhance, not dominate, the slides.
Use APA formatting in the notes of your slide to cite your sources.
Your deliverable for this assignment will be your well-researched PowerPoint presentation.