Notes for November 8 (Thursday)

For November 8th's class, there was a brief review on Cagne and Merrill in the beginning portion of the class then we went into our demonstrations for our lesson plans based upon Cagne's Nine Events of Instruction.

Regarding the review on Cagne, Kim went over his history and basically introduced brought out what kind of individual he was -- this provided clearer insight as to how and why he thought the way he did. One of his works brought up in particular was five major categories of learning outcomes that are (1) verbal information, (2) intellectual skills, (3) cognitive strategies, (4) attitudes, and (5) motor skills.

Since our homework assignment already dealt with Cagne's other influential model of the Nine Events of Instruction, we went straight into an introduction of one of Cagne's students: David Merrill. Merrill came up with what is called the Component Display Theory, which basically utilizes a table cross-referencing content (fact, concept, procedure, process, and principle) with levels of performance (remember, use, and find). Once the table is filled out, an instructional designer can then use this to determine focused instructional micro-strategy.

After the lecture portion we then went into demonstrating our lesson plans based upon Cagne’s Nine Events.

Melissa went up first demonstrating on how to make a sushi roll. This was done through giving pairs of participants the ingredients of her sushi recipe and following her lead as she put it together. This was a really well received lesson since some of us did not get a chance to eat lunch that day!

David presented on how to “gown up” in a biochemical facility through the use of pictures up on the projector and talking us through the process step by step.

Brian showed the class on how to fold a shirt in five seconds or less. This was done in the similar fashion as Melissa’s lesson by giving the class materials and by following his lead.

Judy presented the proper way to have a child’s diaper changed as the way it is done at her workplace. The diaper-changing portion was demonstrated on stuffed animals to represent the child-to-be-changed and the child interaction was reenacted through role-playing with David as a crying baby. David was very convincing on his part.

Jeff showed us how to connect a game system to a television / projector through the physical demonstration taken step by along with a participant (Ricardo) to replicate his instructions.

Taylor taught us what ‘live cds’ were by running or operating them on a computer and showing the various features and uses on the display.

Dennis went over the proper running form by simply showing a physical demonstration of him running in the proper manner in front of the classroom.

Christina did a lesson on polyrhythmic patterns by having the class participate and copy what she did. Per her request, since I have posted an audio recording of her session here if anyone wants to hear it.

Ricardo went over a ‘Know, What, and Learned’ model that he uses to determine what instructional strategy to use. This was shown by drawing a diagram in front of the class and taking us step by step through the process.

Mei Ling did a lesson on how to create a Magic 34 Square by demonstrating up front on the white board and then having the class follow through the use of worksheets.

Kurt went over the differences between art that is avant-garde and art that is defined as realist. He went over the definitions of each, showed pictures of examples, then tested the class by holding up a postcards with a certain type of art on it and asked what those pieces represented.

Lance taught basic Japanese greetings for different parts of the day. The words and pronunciations were shown with a picture identifying the time of day for the first portion then printed sheets of the same words and pictures were handed out as flash card for the class to practice in pairs with. After a few minutes of practicing, the class was tested by having them say the greeting corresponding to the picture being held up.

Hong To went over an algebra lesson in solving travel problems by writing on the white board and taking the class step by step through the process.

In the end, we did not get a chance to see everyone’s presentations so we are to continue on the next class session…