Week 3- Redesign

RE-DESIGN

[My design is hidden at the bottom because I could not figure out how to type underneath it!]

Big Idea: 

Teachers give a clear concise lecture. The students are then allowed to practice their freshly learned information through worksheets or other various activities. The teacher then repeats the information in the classroom through different activities to encourage the students' brains to keep the information stored.

Activity:

The teacher can develop a clear concise presentation for the particular information that is being presented. The presentation should include a visual and a verbal description and explanation of the information.  After this the students could then do a worksheet in groups discussing the information they have just learned. After the worksheet the teacher could start a process of repetition. The students could go over the worksheet as a class to understand what they might have missed. The teacher could then have the students correct any mistakes they have had. The students could then do an individual worksheet and go through the same process with that worksheet. After that the students could then write a short paragraph about what they have learned.

Reflection: 

I chose this flow of design because what I read in the Module 11 about clear concise presentations, practice and repetition causing a more permanent place in memory made perfect sense to me.  In the reading the way information is processed is discussed and the reading states that clear concise presentations of information allow for a greater understanding of what is being learned. Also, the brain, according to Module 11, holds information better if visual and verbal cues are used during the learning process, this is why I added visual and verbal cues in the activity. Module 11 discusses early on that repetition and rehearsal will help individuals retain information instead of just having the information pass through one ear and out the other.  The Module 11 also discusses that practice throughout a time period and active use will allow the information to be better stored and kept in the brain over time. Based off of the readings and my previous experience in the classroom, I believe that this flow of learning would allow students to process the information clearly and to keep the information stored over a longer period of time.