5368+Instructional+Design

As a teacher of 21 years, I can create a lesson plan without any problem. As I was taking Instructional Design, I learned there are other ways to use the lesson plan I create. I never had thought about lessons on-line until I started at Lamar. This kind of teaching would be good for the homebound students. It seems that every year, there is a child that is sick or injured and a volunteer teacher needed to go to the house to teach. I had heard of Behaviorism and Cognitive Theories, but had not heard of Constructivism Theory (Dabbagh, 2006). It was very interesting completing the chart to learn what kind of teacher I was. I learned about Schoology in this class. I also learned the Backward Design, which is an interesting way to look at designing a lesson (Wiggins, 2005, p. 13). I liked this idea of backward design. I have since incorporated it in creating new lessons for my class. I talked to my colleagues to see if they had heard of either Schoology or Backwards Design and they had not heard of either one. I then shared the information about backwards design and they liked this way. I also shared my lesson on Schoology and they wanted to use it the next year when we taught oceans. The knowledge I gained from this class was immense. I did learn that I did not care for the set-up of Schoology, but I have seen other sites that are easier to navigate. As a technology leader, the benefits that I see for my staff in knowing how to design and implement online learning are widely varied. “Any complex unit or course of study will naturally involve many educational targets simultaneously” (Wiggins, p.105). Each educator will be able to design any class the way they prefer. They can design virtual classrooms as well as supplements to the regular classroom. **Reference: ** Dabbagh, N. (2006). //Instructional design theories.// Retrieved 2010, from [] Wiggins, G. & McTighe, J. (2000) //Understanding by design//. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
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