Module 3

Trying out H5P

“Survivor on a budget”

Movie Collage!

“Kitchen Living Room” Virtual Tour!

I am really liking the virtual tour! Try turning on the music for this one!

Lesson Planning Template

Big Idea
Students will be able to create a properly structured/formatted University level APA style paper, as well as understand the importance of properly giving credit to other authors and researchers. This ability is greatly important when it comes to University assignments and effectively communicating ideas, with scientific evidence.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of the lesson the learner will be able to find journal articles relevant to their topic and properly reference/cite the information in their paper. Also, they will understand the importance of giving proper citations and how to avoid plagiarism, while creating a properly formatted, structured, and cited APA style paper.

Evidence of Learning
Evidence of learning consists of students finding proper, peer reviewed journal articles, correctly citing and referencing the articles in a paper, and correctly identifying the reasons why giving credit to authors and having proper citations is important when writing an academic APA style paper.

Assessments
Students will find good scientific journal articles to include in their papers, by creating drafts and templates. Also, students will properly find errors within APA style papers. The final project will consist of a APA style paper review of a topic of their choosing, which includes peer reviewed, scientific articles.

Learning Activities
Students will complete learning activities with citing different articles, reading sample papers and picking out the errors, and completing mini quizzes that demonstrate their learning across each step. We will start with understanding why we use peer reviewed journal articles in academic papers and progress into writing papers of their own, practicing different steps along the way (In-text citations, reference list, having paragraphs flow nicely into each other)

Reflection

I really enjoyed using H5P, I found the download to be straight forward, and there is an awesome range of different tools that are generally easy to use and put into my blog. The virtual tour is by far my favorite because it allows you to turn a single photo into so much more. I would use the virtual tour for many reasons. I could see myself turning an image of a trip or an event into a tour and labeling all the cool things I saw or did. I could then send the link to my parents or friends and they could get a deeper look into my experience. When it comes to education and learning, I see many good uses for the virtual tour. For example, in biology, showing a diagram of parts of the brain or of muscles in the body. For engineering, it could be used as a way to see where things are located in specific machines, which may not be physically accessible to the class. 

Throughout my blog I have referenced APA style academic writing because it is something I do a lot of in university. As I reflect on my experience with APA I can see a clear use of the scaffolding technique but in a broader sense, almost like it’s a technique used by the university,  instead of a specific teacher. When I first started learning APA in first year,  there were clear, descriptive instructions and examples for every step of the way. I could look through a large amount of different papers and citations to easily follow along like a template as I completed my own work. After completing my first year, in my second and third years, whenever we wrote a paper there were brief APA reminders and more broad explanations of how the paper is expected to be written. This is because we are expected to be learning and so they can remove a level of scaffolding, which is the intensive explanation of the concept as a whole. Now in my fourth year, whenever writing a paper, they simply state that it is in APA style and any more knowledge on the matter should be already learned and essentially all scaffolding has been removed at this point. As a personal reflection, I feel confident in my APA style writing ability and feel I could execute a good paper without having to use any external resources. This shows a good example of the scaffolding technique, as each step of the way I have less and less resources and have to rely more and more on actually understanding the content.  

I find the balance of passive and active learning in this course to be great because in each module there is a clear to-do list and a good amount of information/resources relevant to the module. When reading the modules and watching the videos, it is more passive learning, just taking in information, but when we start to explore the information, like H5P tools, or creating our own backward design, we are actively engaged in the information. As a psychology student the whole concept of active learning is very interesting to me because one of the biggest things I’ve learned is that we remember more about something or an event, based on the amount we attend to what is in front of us. When learning has students actively engaged in the material, they will be giving that much more brain power to the content and better solidifying the material in their brain. In this course If I was just to read the modules and not create anything, I would most likely retain a lot less of the information as I would not have to apply it to anything. 

A final reflection I would like to add is regarding Merrill’s 1st principle that, “Learning is promoted when learners are engaged in solving real-world problems”. When it comes to learning and actually retaining information, applying the content to real world situations can allow learners to assimilate the information and make connections to previous learned information. I found myself thinking about this, while having a relaxing sauna, and thought of a type of learning that could be very efficient. I imagine a scenario where a class is learning about relationship fighting styles, a teacher could simply explain each style and situation, but how well will it stay with the student? This brings me to the idea of using a virtual reality headset mixed with a video version of the H5P virtual tour. Imagine within this virtual tour, you can click different segments and see real world examples of a couple displaying each fighting technique (cross-complaining, kitchen-sinking). This could allow students to see the content first hand and understand it based on a real world situation, as opposed to solely hearing their teacher talk or reading about it.

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