Team Education 2.0, Week 4

1. From the previous course, CSTE5336, you had created various multimedia projects which can be incorporated for teaching and training purpose. Review the 9 types of learning in the Synthesis page. How do you apply the material you created last semester to fulfill the levels of learning? (Hint: You can choose any project you had completed to provide the details of how it incorporates with the Concept (What), Procedure (How), and Principles (Why) in the subject area.) Use references to support your statement.

One of the multimedia project created last semester was, using graphic to develop useful educational material. I created an imagery representation of events in the 1920s “The Roaring 20s”.

What?

Graphics are used to represent ideas, information or concepts. These images of the 1920s will assist students to identify the events in the Jazz Age(1920s), understand the information and access to first hand information.  They get the opportunity to see the past in the present. Steinfirst (1995), explained the importance of using visuals or graphics as in political cartoons in a History class to enhance students’ political cognition. As students identify the details in the cartoon and answer questions, it helps student connect what is learnt to their previous knowledge. 

How?

Green (2006), acknowledges that, graphics or images have revolutionized teaching and made it easier. Images are readily available and universally accessible. These images are used by teachers to reinforce learning. Students can develop imagery timeline of 1920s in a chronological order, showing important events of the era. This will allow students to make visual associations to what have been taught and keep them focus as well. Students involvement in creating the timeline with activities such as tracing, pasting, copying, drawing images to explain the events,  will allow students to interact and engage in the learning process.

Why?

Graphics enhance and offer students a deep approach to learning. According to Regan (2008), allowing students to represent information with images, the information learnt is imprinted in their minds. He continues to say that, as students draw, copy, paste, and import images to represent what is learnt, they are also engaged in synthesizing information. Where graphics are used in consistent with the cognitive theory of visual learning, students experience positive learning. The use of graphics in lesson presentation stimulates and sustain students interest complementing understanding.

Reference

Green, D. (2006). Using Digital Images in Teaching and Learning-; Perspectives from Liberal Arts Institutions.

Regan, B. (2008). Why We Need to Teach 21st Century Skills--And How to Do It. Multimedia & Internet@Schools, 15(4), 10-13.

Steinfirst, S. (1995).  Using Editorial Cartoons in the Curriculum To Enhance Visual (and Political) Literacy.

2. Share your reflection after complete the Self-Test. (No references are required.)

I was doing well till I got to question (12), “The learners will figure out the rate of return on an investment”. I chose “cognitive-application-concept”. I was considering the words “figure out” as just understanding a concept. The right answer was cognitive-application-procedure. Am still not satisfy with the answer, because I don’t really get the procedure or process in accomplishing this learning objective. For the discussion part(19-23), I got everything correct with just one attempt.