Instructional Design & Constructvisim

" As long as there were people asking each other questions, we have had constructivist classrooms. Constructivism, the study of learning, is about how we all make sense of our world, and that really hasn't changed. "
Jaqueline Grennan Brooks (1999)
Concept to Classroom Interview
Ch.6 Instructional Design
Planning of a course, a blueprint to design and follow. Instructional design model is a device to help to think through tasks.
Analyze
Design
Develop
Implement
Evaluate
A set of tasks central to the informed selection and use of educational technology:
Analyze learner
State objectives
Select media and materials
Utilize media and materials
Require learner participation
Evaluate and revise
Model of Motivational Instructional Design:
Attention
Relevance
Confidence
Satisfaction
What a student does is what they learn.
Instructional System Design Models aid instructors by offering structure for planning and teaching. They help the teacher identify the content they will teach, but also the teaching, and learning strategies they plan to use, resources, and how to execute lessons.
For the Behavior Model, direct instruction tools that take a learner from knowledge acquisition to fluency and maintenance make the best sense to use.
For the Information Processing Model, tools will help with the clear understanding of the concepts.
The Personal Model emphasizes development of the individual learner's self concept.
Instructional Design Knowledge Base
Front End Analysis
Find the problem and appropriate solutions.
Outcomes and Objectives
Analyze learning outcomes and performance objectives by identifying the domains and levels of learning and determining prerequisite skills and tasks/content and structure.
Models/Theories
Strategies and tactics support instructional models with instructional strategies and tactics.
Behaviorism
Cognitivism
Constructivism
Identify media to deliver the instructional program.
Evaluation occurs during the developmental stage of the instructional design process. Evaluate during process to determine where to find weakness in instruction and revisions can be made.

For the WebQuest assignment we looked into constructivism. Constructivism stimulates and engages students. Students who have the opportunity to be in a constructivist classroom learn to question things and apply their curiosity. It also enables students to take ownership of what they learn, since learning is based on students’ questions and explorations. Constructivism aids students social and communication skills by creating a classroom environment that concentrates on collaboration and the exchange of ideas. Students learn how to articulate their ideas clearly as well as to collaborate on tasks by sharing in group projects. Students will exchange ideas and must learn to "negotiate" with others and to evaluate their contributions in a socially acceptable manner. This is essential to success in the real world. Students will be exposed to a variety of experiences where they will have to cooperate and navigate among the ideas of others.