Instructional Design - the day before Thanksgiving

Started class with a 5 Star Instructional Design Rating Jeopardy game to go over the concepts of the article 5 Star Instructional Design Rating. We kicked butt - 4,800 points to 3,600.

Does your instruction rate 5 stars? Here is the link to the page Mr. Monson said there was a good video to watch on : http://id2.usu.edu/5star

Restructuring Education through Technology

Development of Instructional Technology - started with wordless transfer of knowledge (mime), which evolved into oral storytelling when language was developed. After that comes the written transfer and finally electronic transfer of information.

The teacher - student relationship. changes since 1991
- feedback

- "power"

4 essential components of education - 4 core elements and the interaction between them is what education is.

- teacher

- student

- content

- context

Teacher-Content relationship.

- controlled to freedom of content.

Student - Context relationship

what does a technology rich environment look like for the student?

Teacher - Context relationship.

what does a technology rich environment look like for the teacher

Educational system - environmental relationship

limited : communication, period, activity(limited to certain places) and links to the outside world.

Highly centralized.

We just got told the story about the Greek god Thueth and King Thamus. Shouldn't it be Thueth and Thamuth? Thath the way I thee it. The story isn't that great, I just thought the names sounded funny, so I had to post them here. But for the record, the god Thueth created writing and was so excited about it that he took it to King Thamus. King Thamus, on the other hand was not so excited, he felt that transmitting knowledge through writing would detract from the actual learning, that the focus would be on the writing and would result in unauthentic learning. The comparison is with technology today. To some degree I agree with this, technology for the sake of technology is not necessarily good - it must fit authentically with the subject matter and teacher's teaching style.

The 2 things he wants us to take away with us tonight.

1. Information is not instruction.

2. Technology is really not machines.

Next week - debate Clark & Kosma.

Clark says - media has no bearing on learning. Media is to learning as milk truck is to nutrition.

Kozma - argues with Clark's statement.

Only need to read the Clark articles.

We're going to do it online, so there won't be class held here next week.

FOR THE FINAL :

book page xvii

Need to come ready to present on our project -

- what project was

- what learned along the way

- how solved the problem

Stuff we need to turn in to him

- first two documents

- third document - includes copy of first two documents

- Copy of instructional materials.

- stuff listed on page xvii - report #3

- have someone look over the instructional materials - get some feedback. Best would be to have someone try to do the tiling from the materials, but that being unfeasible, just having them look it over and make comments about what is and isn't clear.

Prototyping.

Provide client with a vision of what the instruction will be

Choose a Delivery System - best thing to do, most economical or what's available?

Consider

- setting

- media characteristics

- instructional materials

- time

- instructors