Examples of Instructional Design Theories

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This is a great video that talks about different types of advanced organizers that are used at various levels of students and activities that they are performing. Students are given organizers to help them focus on new information, organize the information, take notes, make predictions, and better understand the concept at hand and connect it to their prior learning. The video does seem to cut short, however, but much of the concepts regarding the use of graphic organizers are present. 

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The first video provides some detail about meaningful learning activities. It discusses different types of activities that can be used in a classroom to promote meaningful learning and provides criteria for assessing whether an activity will provide meaningful learning or just "busy work". 

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The second video is one I personally love and have my own subjectivities and attachment to. It shows the use of the environment as a placed-based learning tool to help engage students in learning. Throughout the video, we see the instructors use multiple characteristics of meaningful learning, such as relating the information and project to existing knowledge and relating it to something students know and interact with (such as the stream they live by), multiple examples of different materials used in the experiments, graphic organizers to collect data during the project, appealing to multiple senses with different activities, and delving into the details after talking about the larger picture. Having been trained in environmental science, these are some of the activities we performed in high school, and the information I remember even from back then is much more deeply rooted than the things I learned in my other science classes out of my textbook. By relating this new information to what I already knew instead of just telling me isolated facts, I was able to learn much more from these types of activities. To me, this is a great example of what meaningful learning should entail. 

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While rather comical, it is a good example of applying Gagne's instructional events to learning. In this example, a girl is learning how to make tea. The video goes through each of the nine instructional events being performed throughout the tea-teaching and tea-learning process. It presents a summary of the events at the end of the video. I feel this is a great way to use a simple example - making tea - to demonstrate how the principles could be applied to instruction. One could take this example and insert a chemical laboratory procedure in the place of making tea and (most likely) have a similar effect on learning. Perhaps my only suggestion would be to improve the "gaining attention" portion of the video, but otherwise, I like the demonstration of the nine instructional events. 

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