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LTEC 5510 Week 3

Based upon your experience revising your instructional design document this week, reflect on what you learned from your peer's feedback. What did you learn about your work? What did you change as a result? What did you not change? Why?

LTEC Week 3

I have had a crazy few weeks, and I didn’t put the time into the design document week two that I should have. My design document wasn’t fully complete when I turned it in the first time.  Now that I finally planned learning activities, I realize how much time goes into it.  In the classroom after a few years of experience, I got pretty good at throwing up PowerPoint, a few worksheets, and a few activities and labs that are team planned. Planning for an online class requires me to rethink everything. Showing videos all the time is not the best way to teach. I keep asking myself, how do I see student engagement if I can’t see the student face to face? What online resources are best leveraged to help students to learn? Currently, my design document relies heavily on videos from the Amoeba sisters.  I plan to find more interactive online activities.  I also want to look at my old teacher bag of tricks to see if I can convert some of these activities into an online format. 

What my recent work has done is provide me a solid timeline, scope, and sequence.  In the first week, I plan to first start with introduction activities related to genetics. I planned to start meiosis a lot later into the unit. However, the Geniverse assignment suggested by Dr. Lee works best if I teach meiosis first. I have set aside a lot of time for Punnett squares. From my experience in the classroom, I find that it is one of the subjects students struggle with the most. However, I am having difficulties trying to teach in a constructivist fashion.

From my previous teaching experience, protein synthesis, and genetics are taught in different units.  Thus, I currently have a midterm planned for the course. I may cut it out if I gain more activities. I also wanted to bring in more “real world” topics like the research on genetic diseases and biotechnology. Currently, I only have research on the topic limited to GT students.

One of the key things I have learned from this experience is to stay flexible. I foresee that I will have many changes to my design document in the future. Initially, I was daunted about the vast number of activities I have to plan for this online class. However, if I stick to the plan and plan a week of material rather than everything at once from this point forward, I should have plenty of activities. I am looking forward to seeing what my final product will look like.

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