Hello welcome to Blog Post 3! Hope you are having a great week!
Todays topic will touch on Instructional Design and Lesson Planning. This is very relevent for me right noe becasue I will be creating my own lesson plan as an assignment for this class. So follow along with me while I navigate and reflect on instructional learning design and lesson planning and hope to create one by the end of this EDCI course!
In this section I really reflected on my own learning from differnt stages of my life. What parts I did like and what parts of I partcularly didnt find beneficial. Merrils principles approach to a lesson that is meaningful to the learner makes me think that instructors are constantly trying to be better at devlivering thier content and education to thier students. It made me appreciate the effort that goes into a lesson plan.
Merrils Principles
- Learners are engaged in solvingĀ real-world problems
- Existing knowledge isĀ activatedĀ as a foundation for new knowledge
- New knowledge isĀ demonstratedĀ to the learner
- New knowledge isĀ appliedĀ by the learner
- New knowledge isĀ integratedĀ into the learnerās world
What authentic problem would you use to design a lesson using Merrillās principles? What media or multimedia (interactive or not) would you create to support it?
The first thing that comes to mind is indeniogus rights and reconciliation. I have been pretty passionate about this topic and it is important to educate people of these problems. As Merril states that there needs to be an existing knoeledge being activated, I think that Canadian students are aware of indenigous communities being under severe oppresion but it is very surface level. By being able to come up with a lesson plan that can successfully communicate the problems and steer students from misinformation will be ideal for me. The multimedia that I would use to support it would be a powerpoint or even a blogpost. I would add youtube videos of local indeniogus speakers and advocates and grassroot orgnaizations that are a part of the community. Below is my planning template for this lesson.
Where do you see constructive alignment and backward design used in this course or another course you are taking/have taken? Is there anywhere where it seems to be missing?
I am really inrtigued with the way backward design works for students. I think it is very possible that instructors may see more success with a design like this because it gives the students an expectation of what knowledge was being retained in the lesson. In Jennifer Gonzales’s article she identified that she saw better performance in the students understadning and comprrehension of the matieral being presented in the lesson.
I particularly like this EDCI course because it provides the student to interact with the matieral and actual multimedia sites. The lesson plans you can tell are carefully thought out and have a purpose for each section about what you will learn in each reading or matieral. I have found that many courses in university have a format of dense readings and lectures with little to no interactive or discussion component. Students are assesed on 2 exams and a paper. There is usally no description of the weeks lesson and what to expect in class but to read and try to comprehend very difficult readings and come to lecture. I usuallu find myself more excited to got to class and better attendance in classes that have an interactive component such as one of my sociology courses which consisted of half of the class to be discussion and the other part a lesson by the professor, it gave all of us time to think and really flesh out the material given to us in the week.
