Interactive Learning Design
The video I chose was a short video clip from the Egham Museum that provided an overview of the Bronze Age. This video would require an interaction with learning materials type of interaction. This type of interaction is mostly reflection-based, but could be adapted to be observable through note-taking (Bates, 2019, para. 3). Offering the students a choice in how to show their learning would be ideal, as well (University of Victoria, 2021a, para. 3).
This video could create learner-generated activities such as note taking due to the video creating easy to understand timelines of historic periods and providing graphics on the screen that will encourage students to jot down ideas. Additionally, students might think about the topic on their own because of the insights in the video about how life in the Bronze Age differed from other periods. However, it will be important to ensure that some type of interaction occurs because this is how learning or new knowledge is ultimately gained (University of Victoria, 2021b, para. 8).
An activity that attempted to build a bronze age hut or create a historic timeline based on the video. Due to the video not being inherently interactive, this type of designed interaction could help students to interact with the material more (Bates, 2019, para. 14). A timeline project would help students gain a chronological/historical understanding stemming from the video. An activity to construct a bronze age hut would require additional research and creative skills. For research, students would have to use the library or the computer to find information on how bronze age huts were constructed.
To do the bronze age hut activity, the work it would create for me would entail getting suitable crafting materials to create huts and making sure kits of materials were delivered to students. The work would be manageable and worthwhile because it would allow students to interact directly with the history they are learning about. To scale the activity for larger numbers of students, it would be necessary to purchase more materials for building kits or get creative with showing students how to make paper strips that could be woven together to make their huts.
References
Bates, A.W. (2019). Teaching in a digital age-second edition. BC Campus.
Egham Museum. (2017). What was the Bronze Age? YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImDYtBpuBEI&t=5s
University of Victoria. (2021a). Assessing interaction. https://edtechuvic.ca/edci335/assessing-interaction/
University of Victoria. (2021b). Interaction. https://edtechuvic.ca/edci335/interaction/
Hi Ruobing
Your idea of the designing interactive learning give me more perspectives to understand this topic. You focus using online tools to design the interactive learning. This’s a really good idea. Especially, educators and learners can use the zoom that can give both of them real-time feedback. This way is so beneficial for education.
Have a nice week
October 31, 2021 at 10:28 pm
Hi Xiangbo!
Great video choice for your interactive learning design! This video allows us to see how students are actually interacting with the learning topic. It shows that students do like this topic and are willing to engage by raising their hand to talk, walk around to explore, and most importantly ask questions. Seeing other students in this video will keep a level of comfort in your classroom for your students to also want to ask questions. Because if they see other students around the same age as them it will push more students to want to engage themselves.
Great blog post this week!