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Hi Andrew!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your video! It was very informative and I liked how you related it to a very personal experience. Your presentation was very well-thought out and flowed nicely from one topic to the next. I too, have experienced the modality effect in my classroom, as students' working memory becomes overloaded. I believe the coherence principle is great, as too many "bells and whistles" can end up being a distraction for students.
Great post and thank you for your service!
Heaven Austin
Hi Heaven,
DeleteThanks for the post on my blog.
The coherence principle is something that I'm really trying to keep in mind as our team develops its project. It is so easy to get "caught up" in the cool things that can be done and manipulated through technology. I'm trying to keep my focus on ensuring that students' working memory doesn't get overloaded with all the "extras" but rather is free to absorb the content being presented.
Andy
Andrew,
ReplyDeleteYou did a great job on the cognitive load theory. Active learning does take place in working memory. It is important that students understand the technology that they are using, so they do not become overloaded. Course designers need to consider that the students understand the technology first. That is when a scaffolded approach to learning can help. You post was very insightful in the way you related real classroom experience. My experiences has been with K-12 students where they need a lot of instruction on the technology before getting lots of new information.
Stephanie Wade
Hi Stephanie,
DeleteThanks for the post on my blog. You are absolutely correct, students do need to have at least a basic understanding of the technology being used in order to free up the working memory so that maximum learning can take place.
I have found also that it is extremely important for educators to get in-depth training of technologies as well. I have worked in a couple of different school districts and the one that has an effective Educational Technology Professional Development (ETPD) program enjoys better results in the classroom. Not only in individual classrooms but also as teachers collaborate in PLC teams.
Andy
Hi Andy, I really enjoyed your video and I also related to it. About 5 years ago, one student went to my department chair to complain that I was showing too many videos. I didn't say anything to my students about this complaint, but I cut back on the amount I showed. After about two weeks, I could see that they were getting bored, they were checking out, and sometimes falling asleep. I then asked them if they wanted me to add the videos back in, and 99% of the students said yes. Things improved immediately. I have since observed that my students do not really understand a concept unless they can see how it will personally affect them in some way and they needed to relate the information to real life. This approach was discussed in the Clark and Mayer (2011) text when they discuss approaches for the guided discovery approach, or knowledge construction view. This approach engages learners behaviorally and psychologically and results in a mental load that must be processed, resulting in learning. By the way, I see you tried to format your references and had the same difficulty I did. I will be curious to see how the one below formats. HTML can really thwart one's best attempts.
ReplyDeleteClark, R. C. & Mayer, R. E. (2011). E-Learning and the science of instruction-third edition.
San Francisco, CA: Pfeiffer.
Hi Chrisi,
ReplyDeleteHaha, yeah, the references looked fine during the editing mode, but when I posted live it got all jumbled up. I tried 2 or 3 times to get them to format correctly obviously without any luck.
As you know, the toughest job an educator faces is keeping students engaged. Technology really helps with this....movies, games, etc...
What I really want our group to keep in mind is keeping it simple. Present what we have to present without the temptation of using frivolous "bells and whistles" that will overload working memory and thus minimizing transfer of information to long term memory.
It's really easy to get caught up in the "fancy" presentation.
Thanks for replying to my post!
Andy