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November 27, 2022 / / 0 Comments

Learning Pod: #3

Peers’ Names: Chantale, Conrad, Claire and Anna

Interactive Learning Resource Topic: Learning Language through Music

Identify components of the Interactive Learning Resource that might be missing (e.g., appropriate outcomes, alignment, interactivity, inclusivity, technology use and rationale, presentation, grammar, spelling, citations, etc.).

· There are several grammatical errors
· Lack of inclusive design

Provide a summary of The Interactive Learning Resource’s strengths and weaknesses. Draw out specific examples from your peers’ work to justify your feedback.

Strengths
· Teaching methods and assessment methods are well integrated with the type of content you teach
· Your choice of topics for the interactive learning resources is very interesting! I am particularly interested.
· Well-structured and logical.
Weakness
· Lack of connection between goal and assessment
· Outcome 1 is a process
· Assesment need more detail

Provide general, specific, and practical recommendations to your peers on how to improve their Interactive Learning Resource.

· What specific strategies would you use to teach a course online if unforeseen circumstances prevented you from teaching?
· Need more ways to learn other than reading, such as videos and resources that can be read aloud.
· More specific assessment.

Blog Post #3 Inclusive Design

October 25, 2022 / / 0 Comments

For my group interactive learning resource, it is a teaching on the economic concept of inflation. We chose educational resources to meet the needs of most learners as much as possible. For example, for hearing impaired students, we provide resources that have the ability to be read aloud by smart devices, and for students with attention deficit disorders, we provide resources such as short videos that can be played at multiple speeds. In this design, we emphasize that more diverse resources and learning methods can be adapted to a wider range of learners. This includes learners who may have different learning styles, abilities, or needs. By providing a variety of resources and learning methods, we can better meet the needs of all learners. This can ultimately lead to improved learning outcomes for all students.

In the event of an unforeseen event, such as another massive Covid outbreak, all members would need to work from home and our courses would be seamlessly taught online throughout. I think the impact of changing our courses from offline to online would be minimal. The course would be both synchronously and asynchronously. For synchronouly teaching, we have zoom meeting, and recording for the learner that can not join the zoom meeting, this allows them to access the material at a later time.

I think my professors in university did a mediocre job in this area. Although, because different students have different learning styles, states and progress, the teachers would give students their own email and plenty of office hours to communicate with them to keep up with their progress. But the teaching resources given were relatively homogeneous, usually just a lot of articles for students to read.

Post 2 – Cooperative Learning

October 9, 2022 / / 0 Comments

What is Cooperative learning

Cooperative learning is a form of social interaction between students that is about the topic they are learning. A group of learner would cooperate to finish one item.

The benefits of cooperative learning

The interactive and interdependent components of cooperative learning offer the emotional and interpersonal experiences that boost emotional awareness, judgment, critical analysis, flexible perspective taking, creative problem-solving, innovation, and goal-directed behavior.(Willis, 2022)

Blueprint

The chosen topic of our group is inflation, this strategy is align with the topic. But we chose inquiry-based learning instead, because we are live in the context of inflation, they can learn through real-life experiences, better suit for this topic.

Post 1

September 26, 2022 / / 0 Comments

How would the learning be designed differently by a behaviorist, a cognitivist, and a constructivist? Scenario: A high school social study teacher is planning a class on climate change.

Behaviorists are passive learners, their learning depends on their behavior is conditioned by external factors, so personal factor is not that important. So as a behaviorist teacher, I would just force the students to memorize the book and give them a lot of repetition quizzes to reinforce the knowledge.

Cognitiveists focus on personal factors, situated learning is the most effective learning. To help the students assimilate the knowledge into their schemata, the teacher would design how to teach each student based on their schema because people react quite differently to the same stimulus.

Constructivists on the contrary of behaviorists think learning is an active process not just passive storage of content. They might choose a field trip because the teacher believes that situated learning is most effective. Let students react to the topic to push them into active learning because learning is a social activity.

Describe an example from your life of when you were taught using each method described in this article: behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism.

Behaviorism: In one of my econ classes, the instructor gives each student multiple pages of sample quiz questions to memorize, and the exam question is very similar to the sample.

Cognitivism: I get very confused in one of my geology courses, I fail to remember the disconnected knowledge. And instructor assimilated that knowledge into something I was familiar with, so I can memorize them quickly.

Constructivism: Also my geology course, the instructor pass rocks around the classroom for us to better understand different kinds of rocks.

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