Monthly Archives: September 2008
Significant Learning? Who cares.
Caring, huh?
My instructor for my independent study on teaching in higher ed has led me to the significant learning model of L. Dee Fink and his Significant Learning model. I like his model because it includes all the principles I think are important for our instruction.
Significant Learning Elements (Fink, 2003)
Notice how caring is such [...]
Turning Learning Goals into Significant Learning
I have been working on instructional goals for a class assignment. I am reworking my Dreamweaver classes based on backwards design and Fink’s significant learning, and I am struggling with how to translate my goals into significant learning. I want to teach my students more than Dreamweaver; my students must learn how to use Dreamweaver [...]
Choosing Technology Education Curriculum
Are Computer Textbooks Any Good Without our Help?
Much of the time, technology educators teach out of the book. Often, we use a computer textbooks’ table of contents to prepare our lesson plans (Fink, 2005). This is such an easy method that we commonly use it to help make up time while we scramble to keep [...]
Situated Learning in a Computer Lab?
What is Situated Learning?
Situated learning is placing your learner in an authentic environment that mimics the thought processes and actions of a real-life task. We do our best to recreate authentic learning environments so our students can easily transfer learning from the discrete tasks taught in class to the real world. But that is a [...]