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Instructional Design Activity: Lesson Design
Overall Instructor Rating: Exemplary Ratings explanation:
Instructor's Overall Feedback: You did a very nice job on this IDA. Your objective is very well-written. The lesson is laid out in a logical manner and includes sufficient details for others to follow and emulate. I have only a few comments on the things I like and things to be considered as follows: 1. The pre-instructional activities look great. Including a variety of ways to inform and prepare students in this part makes it a good start for the lesson. Showing concrete examples is a proven effective instructional strategy too. Here is also one thing to think about-- would you like to be a little more specific about the discussion activities? Who will lead the discussion and how? Will students talk in turns in front of the whole class or will they share ideas with peers in a group? After all, it is not always easy to make discussion as effective as the instructor expects. 2. The content presentation section is described very clearly. I’m wondering though whether a print handout will be helpful in addition to the PowerPoint presentation. The students will go through a PowerPoint presentation for the first time, but will the presentation still be available after they leave the class? 3. The follow-through activities are very good. It’s important that students constantly build on what they’ve gained from this class by adding more work, and this will be really relevant and useful to their real lives. The recommend is that the instructor have students add some appropriate content to the web page soon after its creation (before they forget how to do it!). 4. You presented a strong rationale for using a self-paced presentation rather than traditional whole-class instruction. Good thoughts. 5. One last thing for your consideration is the scope of the lesson. The lesson itself is very well designed and explained, but will the content be sufficient enough to keep students engaged for a whole class period? Maybe having students do something with the new webpage right after creating it will help. This isn’t a focus of this IDA but something for thought. That’s all I have to say about your work. Keep up the good work! Ying [Note from Greg: I approve of Ying's comments. :) ]
The purpose of this activity is to design a specific lesson based on the lesson objectives identified in one of your unit instructional curriculum maps (ICMs). This IDA is designed to give you practice in planning lesson based on Gagne's events of instruction (see Dick, Carey, and Carey, chapter 8). Complete the instructional strategy planning sheet below for one lesson of your choice. Preferably, this is a lesson that you identified during the unit design analysis. However, you can choose any lesson you wish. As outlined by Dick, Carey, and Carey, it may be helpful to organize the events of instruction in the following major groups or components: Pre-instructional activities, Content presentation, Learner participation, Assessment, Follow-through activities. Your instructional plan should emphasize materials-centered instruction. That is, you should consider resources other than a live instructor for the delivery of the lesson. As you consider possible media, also consider the affordances, or special characteristics, that various media possess. Instructional Strategy Planning Sheet Write the instructional objectives of your lesson here (it can be more than one): Your final response: Given an instructional PowerPoint presentation with interactive step-by-step links, students will be able to generate a G-mail account and a Google page. The instructor's feedback to this step: No specific feedback given on this step.
Enter your instructional plan for each of the instructional components. Also indicate your media choice for each instructional component.
Provide a rationale for your media choices. How do the media you have selected support the instructional plan you have designed? Do the affordances of the media you've selected match the instructional strategy and support student learning? Examples of media affordances:
Your final response: The main instructional media used in this lesson is an individual learner-paced, interactive PowerPoint presentation that provides step-by-step instructions to creating a G-mail account and a Google page. It would be very difficult for students to learn this process by traditional teacher lecture and note-taking. The self-paced PowerPoint presentation will allow students to work at their own pace which should help lower frustration and/or stress levels. Those students who have advanced knowledge of the process will be able to move at a quicker pace and not feel held back/slowed down by less knowledgable classmates. Less advanced students will be able to work at a slower self-guided pace and will have teacher assistance available when requested. The main instructional media used in this lesson is an individual learner-paced, interactive PowerPoint presentation that provides step-by-step instructions to creating a G-mail account and a Google page. It would be very difficult for students to learn this process by traditional teacher lecture and note-taking. The self-paced PowerPoint presentation will allow students to work at their own pace which should help lower frustration and/or stress levels. Those students who have advanced knowledge of the process will be able to move at a quicker pace and not feel held back/slowed down by less knowledgable classmates. Less advanced students will be able to work at a slower self-guided pace and will have teacher assistance available when requested. The instructor's feedback to step 4: No specific feedback given on this step.
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