Peter Rawsthorne's ED6620 site

This site exists to support my ED6620 coursework, it contains five sections; one describing my learner profile and the other four are placeholders for the course assignments. Each section will have a link to the Journal postings that describes my learning experience in completing the assignment, and it will have a number of links to my published assignment and related artifacts.

Module Four

ASSIGNMENT:
Topic: Critical Technology
Critical Pedagogy for the introduction of new educational technology.

Stream of consciousness blog
Academic blog

Why two versions? Stubbornness! I also rewrote the assignment four description to better suit how I see blogs, as a stream of consciousness.

Module Three

ASSIGNMENT:
Topic: Social Cohesion to Build Higher Learning.
Student social cohesion is an important variable in building higher learning within online discussion.

Essay Version Two
Essay Version One

Why two versions? Kinesthetic reasons...

Module Two

ASSIGNMENT:
Topic: Building Multimedia Learning Environments with Constructivist Approaches.
A critical analysis of applying constructivist theories to the creation of multimedia learning projects.

Power Point Show (requires sound and MS PowerPoint 2003)

ARTIFACTS:

1. Concept map that answers the question; How does constructivist theory support multimedia learning environments?

Module One

ASSIGNMENT:
Topic: Current Issues in Instructional Design
Constructivism, Personal Computing Devices and the Internet will continue to have an Influence over Instructional Design.

Concept Map
Paper

ARTIFACTS:

1. My first concept map that answers the question; What is Instructional Design?
2. My second concept map that became my final concept map and answers the question; What are the issues surrounding Instructional Design?
3. My third concept map that begins to describe a learner designed curriculum and answers the question; What are the issues surrounding the future of Instructional Design?
4. My fourth concept map that answers the question; What is Brent Wilson saying in his paper titled, 'Broadening our Foundation for Instructional Design: Four Pillars of Practice'?
5. My fifth concept map that answers the question; What is Brent Wilson saying in his paper titled, 'Foundations for Instructional Design: Reclaiming the Conversation'?

Learner Profile

Learning Style:

My learning style is definitely constructivist with active experimentation. This has been confirmed just in how I live my life, and again in a recent online survey I performed. (not that I give too much credit to online surveys.) Follow this link if you want to get closer to my survey results.

Desired Learning Outcome(s):

• To have a thorough understanding (and to be critical) of the main technology trends and issues affecting the current and future state of learning and technology.
• To deepen my understanding of Instructional Design methodologies; Past, Present and Future.
• To deepen my understanding of the Agile Software development methodologies. In particular, there applicability to Instructional Design.

Learning Goals:

• Obtain a greater than 80% grade for the course.
• Have the ability to be critical and timely when evaluating learning and technology trends and issues.
• Create a comprehensive personal knowledge base of skills and knowledge to be continuously critical of technology trends and issues within the learning and education context.

Progress Toward Goal: