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Instructional Design Activity: Lesson Design


 

Overall Instructor Rating: Satisfactory

Ratings explanation:

  • Exemplary - A model answer in almost every way (this is given out very rarely).
  • Satisfactory - Very well done; you've met the expectations of the assignment. There are some minor problems, so read my feedback well.
  • Marginal Pass - You pass, but there are lots of issues to consider. Read my feedback very carefully and be sure you understand the points/issues I raise.
  • Not satisfactory, redo and resubmit - The assignment was not completed appropriately. I am concerned that you do not understand the process well enough yet. To get credit for the assignment, you need to redo it, most probably on another topic. Read and consider my feedback very carefully before redoing.

Instructor's Overall Feedback:

Your objective: Your objective is good, but I recommend that you add more details to this objective by adding a specific condition and behavior to go along with the learned capability verb "demonstrate" in your original instructional objective of “The student will be able to demonstrate how to conduct an advanced search with GALILEO”. To add specific behavior and condition, just insert the phrase "by [behavior]" at the end, and insert the phrase of “Given [condition]”, such as in this example: "Given a certain academic topic, SWBAT demonstrate how to conduct an advanced search with GALILEO by using various advanced searching restrictions such as keywords, publish year, journal name, author name, etc . (defined concept)" Recall the "recipe": "A-B-C, and maybe D, but definitely include the cap-a-bil-a-tee." ...which translates to: The student will be able to (Audience), Learned Capability, Behavior, Condition, and add Degree if it makes sense, and if you have the basis for determining this. Click here for advice on how to write objectives. Your content presentation: You may want to let the instructor give students some step-by-step instructions in the content presentation part before letting the students to work on their own using the job aid. Otherwise the instructor will be exhausted because there will be so many questions from the students when they work on their own without being shown how this searching works. According to my experience of attending librarians’ workshop and my experience of teaching students web-related operations, it is usually important to show students what the whole process is like step-by-step first using a projector and at the same time ask the students to follow you by operating on their own computer. After this they can use the job aid as a guideline to work on their own topics. Learner participation: Very good. Your assessment: You may also want to be more specific in the assessment section: what are the criteria that students learned the advanced searching skills using GALILEO? How will the teacher check with the students’ searching process? Your media choice and rationale: I think the Internet here is also the media and it is for the whole five components. I agree with your buddy, your media choice is fine but maybe it could be more creative. For example, a pre-recorded video (most likely is a screen captured video) about using the GALILEO advanced searching skills can be a very useful and re-usable tool for students’ reference. Besides, the rationale of using paper-based job aid, is not quite reasonable for me. Because every time when you need to use this job aid, you must have been on Internet and ready to use the GALILEO. So it is not necessary to carry the paper-based job aid "anytime, anywhere", and I think maybe an online tutorial is more efficient since it will never be lost and it is easy to find.

 


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:

The student will be able to demonstrate how to conduct an advanced search with GALILEO

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.

Instructional Component
Instructional Plan
Media Choice

1. Pre-instructional activities

  • a. Motivating the learners/gaining their attention
  • b. Informing the learners of the lesson objectives or purposes
  • c. Informing the learner of what they already need to know to be successful in this lesson (i.e. prerequisite skills)

2. Content presentation

  • a. Presenting the content to be learned (i.e. stimulus material)
  • b. Guiding the learners as they are presented with the content

3. Learner participation

  • a. Giving the learner opportunites for practice (i.e. eliciting the performance)
  • b. Giving the learner feedback during practice

4. Assessment

  • Tests and other assessments to see if anything has been learned as a result of this lesson

5. Follow-through activities

  • a. Memory aids for retention
  • b. Activities to help learners transfer their learning to other contexts

Your final response:

1a. Discuss the quality and quantity of resources GALILEO provides. Also, stress the importance of reliable resources in conducting research. 1b. Describe that the goal of the lesson is to introduce how to conduct an advanced search using GALILEO. Explain that the lesson will explain the basic search procedures in a step-by-step manner. 1c. Explain that (1) experience using the UGA library website and (2) having topics of interest are expected. 2a. Distribute the job aid that guides the student through the procedures of conducting an advanced search of GALILEO. 2b. Explain that everyone will have the opportunity to go through the procedures on the UGA library website in a few minute. 3a. Let the students work with their own computers. Tell them to follow the procedures in the job aid. 3b. Assist the students as necessary as they go through the job aid. 4. Ask the students to conduct an advanced search with a specific topic I give them. 5a. Let the students keep the job aid for future reference. Let students email to the instructor if they have any questions about GALILEO. 5b. Assign out-of-class activities in which the students must conduct the GALILEO advanced search for several topics they are interested in.

1a. Discuss the quality and quantity of resources GALILEO provides. Also, stress the importance of reliable resources in conducting research. 1b. Describe that the goal of the lesson is to introduce how to conduct an advanced search using GALILEO. Explain that the lesson will explain the basic search procedures in a step-by-step manner. 1c. Explain that (1) experience using the UGA library website and (2) having topics of interest are expected. 2a. Distribute the job aid that guides the student through the procedures of conducting an advanced search of GALILEO. 2b. Explain that everyone will have the opportunity to go through the procedures on the UGA library website in a few minute. 3a. Let the students work with their own computers. Tell them to follow the procedures in the job aid. 3b. Assist the students as necessary as they go through the job aid. 4. Ask the students to conduct an advanced search with a specific topic I give them. 5a. Let the students keep the job aid for future reference 5b. Assign out-of-class activities in which the students must conduct the GALILEO advanced search for several topics they are interested in.

The instructor's feedback to this step:

No specific feedback given on this step.

 

 

Your final response:

1a. Instructor; Powerpoint 1b. Instructor; Powerpoint; Job Aid 1c. Instructor 2a,b. Job Aid; Computer; Instructor 3a,b. Instructor; Powerpoint; Computer 4a. Instructor, Computer 5a,b. Job Aid, Computer, E-mail

1a. Instructor; Powerpoint 1b. Instructor; Powerpoint; Job Aid 1c. Instructor 2a,b. Job Aid; Computer; Instructor 3a,b. Instructor; Powerpoint; Computer 4a. Instructor, Computer 5a,b. Job Aid, Computer

The instructor's feedback to this step:

No specific feedback given on this step.

 

 

 

 


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:

  • Video: dynamic representation of people, social situations, psychomotor tasks, etc.
  • Computer simulation: dynamic representation of concepts and principles
  • Computer spreadsheets: dynamic representation of numeric relationships
  • Computer databases: dynamic representation of categorical relationships

Your final response:

The main media used in this lesson is a paper-based job aid that describes the procedures of conducting an advanced search with GALILEO. It is difficult for students to remember all the procedures just by attending one training session. However, with a job aid, they can easily go through the procedures when they need to do so. Also, as it is paper-based, not computer-based, they can carry it with them at anytime, anywhere.

The main media used in this lesson is a paper-based job aid that describes the procedures of conducting an advanced search with GALILEO. It is difficult for students to remember all the procedures just by attending one training session. However, with a job aid, they can easily go through the procedures when they need to do so. Also, as it is paper-based, not computer-based, they can carry it with them at anytime, anywhere.

The instructor's feedback to step 4:

No specific feedback given on this step.