Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Double D for Dummies

O.K. We got the Analysis down  at our 'garage sale' last week, so now we move on to developing learning objectives and designing and developing the plan. At CCTS we are very fortunate to have the best and the brightest people for our Professional Development through the vision of Kathy Hartford, Assistant Superintendent. A forward thinker who has been training us for years in Bloom and writing objectives and backward design, so I think much of this part of ADDIE we do, on a weekly basis.
There were some helpful ideas in the Dummies book like listing  all the learning objectives  and breaking them down to smaller parts. This is especially useful with our special population. Metering the contents for your learners  so it is just right.  I love the idea of designing ice-breakers to relate to the content.  Timing is another area to think about, for example, in any particular class there are students who zip right through and others who are painstakingly slow.  Pages and pages of ideas in Chapter 5 (summer reading ***).
I loved this class even though I was frustrated MOST of the time. Amy, it was an interesting ride with bonuses.
Looking forward to the Fall and our next challenge -Learning Theories.

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