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.