This last design principle brings together all of the
previous ones.
The Teachers as Designers Principle is exactly the Students
as Designers Principle: It is our job to design a solution to a problem (how do
we engage students in learning content), just as is it the students job to
design a solution to the problem given to them.
The Ends Principle (PICKLE) talks to meaningful outcomes.
How can we prepare our students to meet community needs? These community needs
ARE the meaningful outcomes that our students will experience.
The Knowledge Principle is all about using tools. This
related to each students’ abilities, and our job as teachers is to help them
use known tools and discover new ones. We do this by scaffolding, and also
guiding and fading once our help is not needed.
The Learning Principle is all about play. Engaging students
can sometimes be the hardest part of teaching. We can’t force students to learn
anything, no matter how much we talk and shove information at them. They have
to want to for themselves.
The Means Principle talks about choosing the most useful
technologies (through affordance analysis) to best help students accomplish a
task. These technologies, if chosen appropriately, will help students be
independent so they need less teacher intervention. A new technology will
require teacher help, but the more the students explore and understand, the
less they will need the teacher.
This leaves the Students as Designers principle! It’s very
Inception-like. We are teachers who are now students learning how to be better
teachers for our students. We get to have both roles!
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ReplyDeleteHow true! We are experiencing the role of being students as we are learning how to better design learning opportunities for our students. Whew! This was a nice synthesis of all of the design principles as was your group's video. I loved watching it!
ReplyDeleteI think this is a great summary of the design principles. It's clear from our collaboration in class that you fully understand this stuff, Stacey!
ReplyDeleteWell done Det. Jo! A nice concise description of all of the principles. I did enjoy being teacher as student this week.
ReplyDeleteok I definitely want to go and watch the Fairfax group's videos... I'll bet they were great! Kim and I enjoyed our classes, too. I agree with you Stacey that it's cool to be a student and a teacher at the same time!
ReplyDeleteEach week I leave class tired, but with a feeling of happiness and I cannot believe how fast the four hours goes by. I feel so fortunate to be in this cohort with two very talented and knowledgeable professors who have carefully designed the best course(s). I love how each week we get to experience being students with authentic problems to solve, fun constructing activities with collaboration to create our outcome, and always have time for sharing.
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