Instructional Design 09/12/07

Projects are in, next time try packaging it all together rather than sending it in 3 parts - and don't forget to put the names on the project.

5 views of the field.

What instructional design isn't - 5 pages of discussion of this.

• by eliminating things that it isn't, you can better focus on what it is.

Instructional Systems Design : synthesis of theory and research on how information is transferred and how humans make meaning and desired outcomes.

How to design a system to adapt to multiple cultures.....

Housekeeping things :

• Next week - first draft of the term paper or this blog, so here's my "first draft"

Showed class how to make a blog. It was fun, thanks for giving me the opportunity to play college professor.

What is analysis - opposite of synthesis (put together) - break it down and see how it works.

Triangle of Instructional Design =

Content, Delivery and Instructional Design.

Focus on teaching or focusing on what needs to be done - example of the glass cleaners. - focus on the delivery of the information or focus on the end result.

Break down to the point of silliness - analysis breaking it down to the smallest parts possible.

Do not assume everyone knows anything - ie have flat tire - stop car, on flat surface.

chunk into 7 +/- 2

diamond - you have a choiced, boxes, no choice.

if there are not a lot of choices, there isn't instructionally dynamic

start asking boxes - then ask yourself about the choices, differences that are possible.

Come up with topic for the big project - "Compost Heap"

analysis process - domain the learning is in -not just all cognitive or psychomotor.

Declaritive Knowledge - "Knowing that" - statement of fact, recall of facts, outline of materials - ways to learn facts easier - pnemonics, alliteration, writing : Domain : Verbal Information - all building blocks for real learning

Procedural Knowledge - "Knowing how" - knowledge of how to do something. step by step "doing it". Descriminations - how to put that information to use. as opposed to : Associations - connect together

Problem Solving - take a wqhole bunch of rules and work with them together.
Rule Using - applying a single rult to a given situation or condition responding to a class of inputs with a class of actions. If - - then statements.
Concrete Concept- is responding in a single way to all members of a particular class of observable events. Seeing the similarity among a class of objects, people, events, which calls for a single respones.
Discriminations - tell the difference between yellow finches and house finches, telling the difference between guages on an instrument panel. Deciding whether a multiplication answer will be positive or negative.

What is procedures going to look like - lots of steps, lots of diamonds.

Break into the ridiculous, and then put back together to avoid duplications, and to chunk so that the lesson is not overly tedious.

Decisions

What are we going to do -

Wich domain does it fall under (Declarative Knowledge, Procedural Knowledge, Cognitive Strategies, Attitudes or Psychomotor Skills)

Project

Goals

Process - 5 to 15 simple steps

Ask the "why" questions, ask a lot

Admit bias, accept bias and actively work to avoid it.