Month: October 2022

Describe a meaningful learning experience that started with a story. What made it impactful for you? Did you recognize any of the storytelling techniques reviewed this week?

I remember in hisotry class back in elementary school, when i was in China, the teacher taught us the fascinating story about chinese history and how a boy who were born a beggar overcame his adversity to become the founder emperor of Ming dynasty, this got me interested in that character and make me weel enegaged thru learning aout the history of Ming dynasty.

In the reading this week, 7 Storytelling Techniques Used by the Most Inspiring TED Presenters, which of the presenters did you find most compelling? What technique(s) did you recognize in their talk?

The presenter that I found most compelling was Leslie Morgan Steiner, she showed her personal story and guided the audiences thru that story to create some level of resonance that we are all part of the audiences that one day might experiance similar situations around us. she also tried to put us thru her personal perspective by giving us the what if’s if we were in that situation, to think and consider the circumstances so that we could be in her shoes or at least understand her.

What storytelling techniques have you used instinctively and which ones require more work for you? Which techniques will you focus on moving forward?

I will definetely try to take people into my perspective by first creating a personal story, I believe that people are good resoners and would want to listen to the stroy or experiances of others, therefore taking them thru a first personal view of things are able to get you involved into thinking thru your perspective and possibly put them into your shoes to experiance the same emotions as you would experianced it.

Another technique i would like to use is to create suspense, since suspense will want people to follow up the story more, and thus this would let them pay attention, if people think the learning is boring and do not want to follow up they would not pay attention thus it would affect the learning outcome, therefore creating suspense would get them to pay more attention and thus improve the learning outcome.

As always, these questions are intended as an inspiration to your blogs, not a prescription. So use one of the questions if it sparks ideas or choose your own reflection on this week’s topic.

How does your experience with in-game learning supports compare to the study in the readings this week? Which principles (Mayer’s and Merrill’s) seem to be commonly applied in in-game support and which ones are often missed in your experience?

In game learning has really provided us with the experiance of process focuesed learning with the end goal in mind rather than learning for the sake of satisfying something, by that we mean participating in something meaningful and learning in the process of doing so. According to Mayer’s principle, in game learning provides other interactive source such as pictures or animations that will have the learner interact with other sources upon their learning interaction. upon playiner game, student learn how to solve probems with the learning game’s end goal in mind, which can be referenced to merrill’s principle of problem centric and application.

What authentic problem would you use to design a lesson using Merrill’s principles? What media or multimedia (interactive or not) would you create to support it?

I would let them interact with any source of media, for example, create a media that is reflective of our learning materials, and have them watch it and reflect it toward their own life experiance synthesizing with the learning we have. Or use a learning goal focues approach to educate student first and then let student find their own media materials that correspond to the learning and have them answear why these ones are approporiate to be chosen.

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?

constructive alignment comes from the outlines we have and the assignment we need to complete. We are given the learning goals of the course and what we should do thru the outlines and the assignment we have to do constructively to complete the course. The course forms objectives which translate to learning goals and then give assessments based on it. asseseements are also long term building blocks for the big learning goals we have in the future. I do not see much missing from this course, i belive the learning process and the the asessment of the course are all well comprehensed in coming togeather to form a good constructive alignment example with some good usage of backward design in it.

What did you find when you ran the WAVE accessibility report on your blog post(s)? What did you expect and what was surprising? Is there anything you will do differently going forward? 

I did a wave accessibility report on my last blog, it mentioned that I have a lot of structural point that can be improved, how I lead my text and my paragraphs could be further improved by sorting out information from main to minor ones. In places where I need to put links, in some places links are encouraged, And I had one redundant link. I will try to see if there are redundant links that I need to take out in the future, and further check if there are places where I can sort out ideas that are too small and scattered around. I will group these small scattered ideas under their corresponding main ideas to become better organized. To try to make structures clear, I will bold the questions this time.

Have you used Text to Speech tools before? Did you find it useful? Did you try out some of the different voices? What impact did the different voices have on your ability to absorb information?

yes, I did when I was studying for my final exam. I personally found it to be very useful. I was able to relax and just listen since sometimes after long period of studying my mind is exhausting and that exhaustion can definitely go to your vision as well. listening to stuff allows me to really close my eyes and relax to give my vision a total break while learning the context. And thus I was able to absorb information without being in a continuous state of fatigue after already using my eyes for so long.

What role do you think media and multimedia can play in a learning environment designed with UDL guidelines in mind? Which of the promising practices for text, images and video are in alignment with these guidelines?

definitely it promotes learning capability for people in all age groups, since in the digital era, a lot of the learning is done thru media and multimedia, especially post covid era where so many things have been shifted remotely to learn online, therefore presenting UDL learning guidelines thru multimedia is very important. It is especially useful because its guidelines for diverse learning can be amplified in multimedia because of the diverse technological tools multimedia has to optimally improve the learning environment.

What does inclusive design mean to you?

it means that designing to not only learn for the traditional way for targeted audiences, but consider diverse groups of people with different disabilities, and it is important to know that in creating learning platform we shouldn’t assume a standard version of normality, everyone is different and some learn slower and not so direct as others, we should aim for a learning program that take in consideration for all of the types of people with different learning capacities.