• Historia, the example of game-based learning in this week’s Read/Watch list is relatively low tech – how would you use multimedia tools and content to support and enhance the active learning? What would it allow them to do that they’re not doing right now?

Multimedia is definitely a great way to get the kid to be enhanced in thier learning without them being bored, with reference to this week’s blog by jennifer Gonzelez, I have learned that Kid does not simply learn by reading and reflecting, they have to be engaged in some sort of activity and get the knwolegde to embedd within thier memory. Multimedia can do just that, You can either have them interact with multimedia by setting up gaming activity or any other interactive activity that have them go thru a process of something other than reading to the text itself. Best to be some sort of video that promote activities.

• In the reading, Students Need to DO Something, do any of the author’s experiences with passive learning in K-12 classrooms resonate with your own? Why do you think active learning is not more prevalent in K-12? Have you tried using any of these activities in a classroom? Which one looks most appealing to you?

It definitely does, as i was a kid with ADHD, I could never focus in class doing normal readings, What i did learn the best was from my grandma and gradpa, they would tell me to do math problems with them and race to see who got first in the math problems, if i win i’d get to buy something, and that was something passvie motivating me like i was playing a game with them, and in that semester my math skill grew so much and that I had the higest score on my grade in one of the math contest we did. I could say that i have never really learned much from class since it was just doing some questions. Therefore I could defintely resonate with the author in “Students Needs to DO something”.

The multimedia that i would like to use is the picture of the representation of social residual that respresent my social media activity which i have created in another class. The picture demonstrates my relationship with social media and shows how much of time i spent on it. The purpose was to demonstrate the relationship of the user and the internet and help user to identify what type of internet user they are.

First change I would like to make is based on Mayer’s principle I would like to make my visual more colourful since too monotonous of a visual could be boring to watch. Then when I have color i would only stick to using no more than three types of total shape to represent social media and avoide too much unessary shaping all around the place and cause confusion. This way it’ll be neat and colourful(coherence). I have also grouped social medias with similar usage the same color, for example uvic webmail and EDCI blog are all coloured yellow since they are for purely school learning purpose. All the comprehensive google company apps are colored red. This way it helps viewers to separate and identify what different types of social media out there are for(signaling principle)

At last I would like to ask them a question for interactive learning about what do they see with the coloring of the different social medias, what pattern do they see? this is for them to interact with the visual and identify the differences between the social media by themself.