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Tag Archives: Instructional Design
Instructional Media
This is a continuation of the conversation started earlier. This link looks like a good starting point – it lists a lot of important considerations related to the evaluation and selection of media. Sadly, much of it is out of … Continue reading
How Do You Evaluate and Assess Media for Instruction?
This question was asked on one of the LinkedIn groups (AECT: Association for Educational Communications and Technology) I belong to. It got me thinking…. I decided to move my part of the conversation here because the notion interests me. Here’s … Continue reading
The Decorative Media Principle in Action
There are thousands (maybe even millions) of examples of the Decorative Media Principle out there in the Internets. The Decorative Media Principle involves creating a visually pleasing background and other decorations for a worksheet, website, etc. that is usually thematically … Continue reading
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Communicating (a comment on Pidgin Learning by Clark Quinn)
Here’s a short post from Clark Quinn about making communication work even when we don’t really share the same language: Pidgin Learning Very nicely put. I’ve been mired the writing of two chapters of my book that talk about definitions, … Continue reading
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The Decorative Media Principle
I’ve been looking around at a lot of educational sites and I keep running into the same thing. Many of them LOOK nice – I mean: they have nice colours, cute or otherwise appealing characters and graphics; some of them … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Teaching & Learning, User Interfaces
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Thoughts on Ed Theories: Cognitive Load
Forgive me, I come from Science. “Theory” means something different in science from what it means in education. It seems that in education we can label any notion we have about how things work as a theory – and then … Continue reading
Why can’t EdTechs get along with IT, and how that effects Education
Why do so many people in Ed Tech denigrate people who actually know tech? Isn’t knowing tech supposed to be a good thing? Do people with Education degrees feel that they are somehow better than the rest of us because … Continue reading
Knowing ‘X’ does not imply knowing ‘Y’
Earlier this spring, I had a lovely conversation with a fellow game researcher and enthusiast (Jostein Hassel) about how digital games are related to non-digital games. I learned a lot from this conversation (more on that in an upcoming post). … Continue reading
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