Category: Assignment 2 – Blog Feedback

Hey Timi,

You clearly laid out the three models in this week’s material, and I wonder if you have any experience or examples relating to the use of these models? I think these models branched from the three essential parities in education: students, learning materials, and teachers. Echoing last week’s content about backward design, Dr. Bates also highlights the importance of desired learning outcomes as educators select from different media formats for teaching their students. As you said about the SAMR model, it is moving from “using technology to enhance learning or using it to transform learning”.

Last but not least, do you think there is anything in need of update/change for these models?

Hi Meaghan,

Thank you for your informative and thoughtful post! Your examples clearly illustrated what it means to provide alternatives and different pathways for students, i.e., different options for assignment formats, or offering necessary technological support for students’ online learning tasks. Your personal experience as a camp leader perfectly shown how to make use of backward design in real pedological conditions, as it is certainly structural and organized. Responding your comment to my post, I do not mean to prioritize the teaching stage over the planning stage, but to say that they work together towards a successful learning experience for the students. One can see if the several sizes of clothing they have provided in their plans fit the students during the actual teaching processes, and use this experience to enhance the future teaching designs.

I enjoy reading your blog and thank you for sharing!

Hi Meaghan,

I like the images of beautiful sceneries in Victoria! They are catchy and highlighted by your background colours. I can see that you embedded the designing principle of hierarchy as you order and size the images of tourist attractions in Victoria. I can see that aside from the colour balance, there is balance in your content as the below three are weighing the same space and presented in alignment. I would want to see more textual information on this poster if you are considering updating this one since the space you left on the left-hand side is kind of empty for a poster targeting visitors.

Lastly, thank you for your work!

Hi Timi,

Thank you for your post! I can see that your poster makes use of harmonious colours and hierarchical orders of the recommended spots for coffee at Victoria. I can also see a visual balance between the images and texts that are arranged with a pattern. I would say that one thing that could be more emphasized is the design principle about contrast – I think the information that you aim to highlight could be displayed more prominently. For example, I think bold letters for the most attractive elements of a specific coffee shop or only put out the specialities as key points and reduce the word count in each block could help creating more space. Overall nice poster! It is easy and informative for me as a viewer.

Hi Meaghan,

I can see that your post clearly laid out the difference between gamification and game-based learning for me, think you:)

Your experience in designing a board game for the class particularly highlighted the social characteristic of socio-constructivism, as you have to make it accessible for your peer after understanding the learning content and converting it to the gaming language. I can see why it is effective and helpful as it needs a deep understanding for someone to be the player and recognize the correct answers. It shows the interactions within a group in a gaming environment, which is definitely a good example for GBL.

For your example about gamification, I think one of its advantages is the in-time encouragement and rewards for children that could help them focus on what they do. Thus, I would consider which shows certain features of behaviourism as it involves positive/negative reinforcement for their actions.

Thank you for the examples that effectively present the practical use of GBL and gamification in teaching and learning!

Hello Meaghan,

I am glad to see that you are planning to be a teacher and good for you to be a summer camp leader:) With your goal in mind, I think it would be extra helpful for you to learn about multimedia teaching styles as you can experience them as a student for now. I can see that it is already a reflective learning experience as far as it goes. As Mayer points out, words and pictures complement each other motivating high-quality knowledge-learning experiences for students (2014). Besides, we are already experiencing the teaching style of “think, pair and share” as we are members of a same learning group and I am now replying to your thoughts. We are starting to use all sorts of techniques here, and I am sure we will all have a valuable learning experience this summer. 

References

5 Examples of Interactive Teaching Styles. (2012, November 2). ResilientEducator.com. https://resilienteducator.com/classroom-resources/5-interactive-teaching-styles-2/

Mayer, R. E. (2014). Introduction to multimedia learning. The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning (pp. 1-24). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139547369.002

Hi Timi!
Thank you for your thoughtful post. Your high school learning experience definitely shown features of interactive teaching styles as it motivates students participations and potentially allows adjustable teaching methods later since kahoots can show students’ learning outcomes. reminds me of one of my volunteering experiences for a language-learning class where the teacher let the students play Bingo when they were learning about numbers. Buzz session was adopted prior to the beginning of the game, which motivates students to actively seek help from others and get engaged. I think it is quite an effective instructing method that is interactive and fun, especially when you get someone being competitive towards winning the game. In addition, it surely helps keep students’ memories about the knowledge they’ve learned. Relating to the Multimedia Learning Principle by Mayer, these types of gaming used in teaching make use of the qualitative rationale with verbal and pictorial forms of information together.
I am wondering if you could change the colour of your font to a lighter one? I feel like red texts on a black background are contrasting each other, in a sense. Perhaps a lighter red could help?

References

5 Examples of Interactive Teaching Styles. (2012, November 2). ResilientEducator.com. https://resilienteducator.com/classroom-resources/5-interactive-teaching-styles-2/