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blog post 4:Interactivity

Hi Xitong! I like how engaging your activities are and how the video you selected allows for a lot of student interaction! Like you said students can take notes from the video and interact with fellow students to discuss each others notes, it would help students become inclusive and engage in the topic and help others further understand if they needed help! Overall I think your video choice was excellent:) Thank you for sharing!

Week 6 – Interaction – Blog Post

Hello Xinh! I really enjoyed the video you provided in your blog, it was very educating and easy to follow. Short and simple! I love how you have mini subtopics of all the questions for the blog prompt, it makes it so much easier to find each answer and it probably makes it so much easier for you too so you know for yourself that you answered each question fully. I think the idea you had as an activity for viewers of the video, asking them to prioritize important tasks as a strategy to manage stress, and then to list and rank three of their important tasks from highest to lowest priority would be such a smart activity for students! Overall I really enjoyed your post and thought it was very knowledgable! Thank you for sharing!

I chose a short and informative video about the six basic nutrients and how they affects our bodies. I really enjoyed this video because I found it to be well organized and very easy to follow. All of the narrative, straightforward text, and pictures in the video make it accessible to all types of learners and students can respond by making brief notes about the written texts. A great activity I would do with my students to help them understand the information given from the video and test their knowledge would be to simply play matching games. I would get my students to match different food items with their appropriate food groups. This could be a group based game too, and after a few minutes we would announce a group a winner which would excite the learners to want to try harder and make sure they match each food item to its proper group! This activity, in my opinion, wouldn’t require too much work for the student but rather fun and bring them excitement, and it’s a terrific way to get the students engaged in physical learning.Allowing the students to perform homework or answer quizzes together as a group based on the video is an additional suggestion. This concept is crucial for promoting diversity, inclusiveness, and engagement among all students. Not only will they learn to bounce ideas off of one another, which will help them develop their imagination and creativity in the classroom, but they will also learn to strengthen their social skills in a learning atmosphere.

References

YouTube. (2019, October 27). How the six basic nutrients affect your body. YouTube. Retrieved June 23, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inEPlZZ_SfA&ab_channel=Bestie

Post 3: Universal Design – Velcro As Inspiration for Inclusive Learning

Hi Braden BRADEN ENGLISH’S BLOG!

This is a very in depth post, I enjoyed reading about your universal design a lot! I particularly liked how you incorporated a specific example, like velcro, in your blog post about universal design. You provided a full explanation of Velcro, including its purposes and the significance it may have in classrooms. I really like how you connected this to inclusiveness and how it makes learning accessible to all children, which is why classrooms should use it!

Thank you for sharing I thought this was a great post!:)

Blog Post #3: Inclusive Design

Hi Ariana!

Thank you for your blog post Ariana’s Ed Blog ! I love how it a personal blog post, I loved learning more about you! I chose this prompt as well, and the way you considered your personal instruction style is very much similar to myn. Repetition is how I learn best, the more exposure we have to certain ideas that we need to know, the better we will remember them and be able to recall them for future reference. The more exposure we have to certain ideas, the more familiar we are with them, thus allowing us to connect and expand ideas onto other ideas. I loved how you discussed the different techniques you would use to teaching students who could struggle with all sorts of barriers in life.

Loved the blog and Thanks again!

Tejpreet:)

What is experiential learning? How does this relate to my topic on basic nutrition and daily diets?

_{“Experiential education is a philosophy that informs many methodologies in which educators purposefully engage with learners in direct experience and focused reflection in order to increase knowledge, develop skills, clarify values, and develop people’s capacity to contribute to their communities.” ASSOCIATION FOR EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION}

Experiential learning is a type of learning in which people participate in first-hand activities related to a topic of interest and then reflect on what they’ve experienced. Experiential learning can take several different forms, ranging from hands-on chemical experiments in the lab to foreign exchange programmes that teach about diverse cultures. One of the key advantages of experiential learning is that the learner is not simply given knowledge to acquire, but also takes charge of their own learning and learns about the topic firsthand. Experiential learning has been found to be successful at keeping learners motivated throughout the learning process because they are the ones who are involved in the environment.

An important aspect of experiential learning is Kolb’s learning cycle. The cycle depicts 4 processes: experiencing, reflecting, thinking, and acting. 1) Concrete Experience is the initial step for the learner. When attempting to bake a cake, a student will interact with the materials as well as several baking tools. The student might try mixing the ingredients together or even bake a muffin. The learner moves on to stage 2), Reflective Observation, as a result of this experience. The learner evaluates their experience, determining what went well and what didn’t. For example, the student may have forgotten to add sugar to the bowl of ingredients, resulting in a nutritious but unsweet cake, or they may have overbaked the cake and burned it. Based on this evaluation, the learner advances to the third step, 3) Abstract Conceptualization, when they reflect on their mistakes and plan to produce a better cake next time. This leads to step 4) Active Experimentation, in which the learner tries out various ways depending on their prior experience. These four steps represent the various stages of experience learning.

I believe that this learning process does align with the topic that my pod has chosen for interactive learning resource which is on basic nutrition and daily diets. Experiential learning is a process that is more prevalent when learning skills and life lessons. Dieting is a learning process. You have to figure out which specific diet/food is right for your body and to do so you must go through a process of trying different diets, such as a gluten free-diet or a low-carbohydrate diet. Based on my pods topic on nutrition and daily diets, experiential learning along with hands-on assignments, I believe our learners will gain a knowledgeable amount of basic understanding of nutrition and a balanced diet.

Here’s a video that further explains this topic on experiential learning!

References

ELBS. (2020, May 15). This is Experiential Learning [Video]. Youtube.

McLeod, S. (2013). Kolb’s learning styles and experiential learning cycle. Simply Psychology. https://www.simplypsychology.org/learning-kolb.html

Prompt: Based on your reading, would you consider your current instruction style more behaviorist, cognitivist, or constructivist? Elaborate with your specific mindset and examples.

I would consider my current instruction style to be more behaviourist. Over the years I have realized when it comes to school I have a behaviourist learning style. I learned about myself that I memorize things so much better when everything is consistent. When the framework of a lesson taught in class is the same everyday and repeated over and over, I learn best. I’ve found this to be very useful and helpful for me as it lets me know what to expect each day coming to class and I’m not worries of missing any content or falling behind.

After reading the section on memory, I recognized how similar my learning experience had been. The use of frequent repetition or review of certain topics helps sustain the learner’s readiness to respond, according to the memory section of Chapter 11. I have experienced this myself in my Biology and Statistics classes. That if I’m attempting to remember a concept or method, it’s best to keep reminding myself of it until it’s second nature to recognize and respond to it right away.

For example in my statistics classes, I can recreate the solution and procedure for all other questions of that sort once I learn the answer and method for one statistics question. That’s something I love about statistics and taking those kinds of classes, every question is practically the same to one another, only minor changes, so once you’ve wrapped your head around solving one question perfectly all the others become very easy to solve, as they are all similar to one another. “Situations involving identical or similar features allow behaviours to transfer across common elements”(West, 2018). I can enforce the relationship between the questions and answers by continuously practising and memorizing the content.

So I guess you can say I favor the behaviourist instruction style the most since it corresponds to my personality and how my brain functions best. It’s helped me succeed in every class so far! Let’s hope it continues to do so:)

References

West, R. E. (2018). Foundations of Learning and Instructional Design Technology. EdTech Books.