This post is a little late because I had to go backwards anddo some reorginization in my thinking. As refrenced in my last post I did talk with Brenna and it helped tremendously. I'm much more clear about where I'm going and what I'm doing. I have a plan for my continued action research next semester and I'm optomistic about the usefulness of my efforts.
Looking back on our work I think I learned the most (in terms of learning to reading effort) from reading Baggio. Of all the books Baggio was the tidiest and most reader friendly. I even loaned my copy to a friend who works outside of education and he was really excited by the content too. In terms of sensemaking, Bagio was a HUGE asset! The material was presented in a way that made it easy to understand and easy to process and apply to my teaching practice. I have a much better idea of waht constitutes good instructional design that I did before the class. I have already gone back and redesigned a handful of other things I'd previously designed in an effort to make them better suited to student learning. I'm excited because even though I'm not in a classroom at the moment, I'm still able to tighten up my instruction and work on being a more innovative thinker.
When I chose E Learning and the Science of Instruction as my book report book I wasn't fully prepared for how much of a tome it was going to be. Fortunatly it was really interesting and the reading was clearly presented. Since Clark was one of the authors it was a really nice direct correlation to the Clark readings we'd done before in class. I'm actually glad that I chose E Leaning as my book, so much so that I've even started going through and reading the parts that Laurie presented on because I'm interested in reading the whole book.
Looking back on our work I think I learned the most (in terms of learning to reading effort) from reading Baggio. Of all the books Baggio was the tidiest and most reader friendly. I even loaned my copy to a friend who works outside of education and he was really excited by the content too. In terms of sensemaking, Bagio was a HUGE asset! The material was presented in a way that made it easy to understand and easy to process and apply to my teaching practice. I have a much better idea of waht constitutes good instructional design that I did before the class. I have already gone back and redesigned a handful of other things I'd previously designed in an effort to make them better suited to student learning. I'm excited because even though I'm not in a classroom at the moment, I'm still able to tighten up my instruction and work on being a more innovative thinker.
When I chose E Learning and the Science of Instruction as my book report book I wasn't fully prepared for how much of a tome it was going to be. Fortunatly it was really interesting and the reading was clearly presented. Since Clark was one of the authors it was a really nice direct correlation to the Clark readings we'd done before in class. I'm actually glad that I chose E Leaning as my book, so much so that I've even started going through and reading the parts that Laurie presented on because I'm interested in reading the whole book.