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Redefining ADDIE – LRNT 524 – Innovation, Design and Learning Environments

By on Nov 28, 2021 in LRNT 524 | 0 comments

I am very excited to share with you some of the ways that I design and innovate. I would very much appreciate hearing about some of the ways that you design your learning environments and any advice or insights that you may have for me.  Redefining ADDIE – by Sam  A – Attract – In my English as a second language context, it is particularly important to grab the learners’ attention and establish an authentic connection where learners feel safe with the instructor as well as other learners. When stepping back into the classroom whether virtual or in-person, there can be fear or hesitation. This could be a result of past trauma adult students have encountered. By addressing these fears, you set the stage for low-stakes risk and high-stakes rewards. D – Determine and discover – Contemporary language learners have generally had much exposure and experience with ELS...

Unit 1: Examining Current and Emerging Models of Design – Activity Two – Exploring Design Models

By on Nov 21, 2021 in LRNT 524 | 4 comments

The message is clear, there should be fuzzy, permeable, and changeable borders between isolated organizational spaces, where innovation can emerge and seep through the organization, without the bottlenecks and filtering of artificially imposed hierarchical layers. Dron, J.(2014) At the beginning of my teaching career, I found myself teaching 8 to 10 classes a day in a country I knew very little about, and with very little experience. Out of fear and having only one other teacher at my school who was also in their early 20’s and was also very inexperienced, we relied on the teachers’ guides and lesson plans. After sometimes teaching the exact same lesson in the exact same way, it became clear that every class was different and that no matter how much you prepared or lesson planned, there was no guarantee that the lesson would yield the results our class had hoped for. I...

Introduction – LRNT524 – Innovation, Design and Learning Environments -Sam Kirk

By on Nov 8, 2021 in LRNT 524 | 2 comments

  My hope for this course is to be better aware of the choices I make when designing lessons and have more confidence in those choices. I am very curious about how I can create space in my lessons for reflection that is useful. I know that innovation plays a huge role in my work context but I have never really had a chance to evaluate it in a formal way. I tend to create a very personal system that I refine, remix and reorganize over time. A lot of it is trial by error and the changes I make tend to be small but over the years can be quite large. Just writing this paragraph has made me realize that I have rarely had to verbalize how I design lessons, let alone write about it. I have tended to operate with a lot of freedom and within a bubble, seldom knowing what other instructors are doing.  I decided to choose one of the examples provided and introduce myself through a poem. This...