Instructional Design 10/17/07

Assignments : he likes them both paper and electronically.

Multimedia - group presentation.

Why do kindergartners learn the computer faster than adults?

• kids play on computers
• adults worry about failing, losing the document they worked on for the last 3 hours

3 steps kids use when learning the computer

• click on stuff,
• see what happens
• remember it.

http://www.itools.com/

First use of computers in schools -

• went to the english departments - word processors
• went to business department - can do accounting

Swedish Horses

http://svt.se/hogafflahage/hogafflaHage_site/Kor/hestekor.swf

Zamzar is a website that allows you to get video off of youtube. It is really easy to do.

http://www.zamzar.com/

this one is for the adults to give you a good laugh!

http://www.jibjab.com/

Next stage of the assignment is due November 2, 2007

Developing Assessment Instruments

3 essential questions of Instructional Design

1. Where are we going?
2. How are we going to get there?
3. How are we going to know we got there?

Instructional Designers would argue that "teaching to the test" is what we should be doing.

Focus concretely on desires outcomes, right after setting goals, set up how you are going to know you acheived those goals.

1. Entry Behavior Tests - make sure they know the stuff you are not going to test, what they must know to continue with the instruction.
2. Pre-Test - access current knowledge - if everyone passes pre-test your job is done - don't need to do the instruction.
3. Practice Tests - check progress, see if ready to continue to next level.
4. Post-Test - see if goal was acheived. What is mastery? Depends on the ask, what is expected, what is being taught and what deisgners thing mastery ought to be - defined case by case.

Assessment - with every test there are some incongruency. ie : True or False = 50/50 chance, and if you know even a little bit about the subject being tested, that T/F test gives you a great advantage.

If someone were really going to know this, how will we know?

Utah driver test vs. European drivers test.

Utah - if you can read a book and match it to the questions you can pass.

Europe - courses cost a lot of money and most people fail the first time.

1. a 1 minute paper
2. what's the muddiest point?
3. misconception - preconception check
4. pro / con grid
5. 1 sentence summary
6. concept map
7. what's the principle?
8. directed paraphrasing
9. student generated test questions
10. chain notes
11. RSQC2 - recall, summarize, question, comment, connect

Parsimony, parsimonious - extreme unwillingness to spend. For example you should be parsimonious on instructions - stingy on the instructions.

Authentic Assessment