Technology Mini Proposal:
Assessments and Video Lecture
Assessments
Over the next few weeks, I will create assessments that measure higher order thinking skills (HOTS) using Google Forms. While Google Forms does use lower level of thinking, I want to attempt to use it for higher order of thinking assessments.
Based on suggestions from the Landscape of Learning, these are some of the assessment I want to implement in my lessons over the next few years:
1. Agree or Disagree?
2. Analogy
3. Background Knowledge
4. Burning Question
5. Free Write
6. Inquiry - Image Prompt
7. Inquiry - Text Prompt
8. Inquiry - Video Prompt
9. Summary
Proficiency will be demonstrated by selecting 3 of the 9 and creating 3 functional forms similar to the ones that at the URL listing.
The difficulty in using Google Forms will be to ensure that the parameters and coding for all of the cells and commands perfectly match up.
In addition, writing rubrics that that allow for binary responses for HOTS responses. Instructors in my unit need means to assess students objectively, quickly, and easily on HOTS. Google Forms (and the Google Suite online) is familiar enough to most service members, and is allowed on Department of Defense Information Network (DODIN).
Videos
I will use iSpring Suite to create video lectures to supplement existing learning aids for the class.
Most US Army learning aids stick to just PowerPoint for static visual or YouTube for dynamic visual.
Video lectures seem to create much more engagement.Just as critically, can also serve as a back-up for guest instructors whose information should becaptured for future class iterations.
I would like to assess my work using Richard Mayer’s principles of multimedia from the reading earlier in the Module:
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Reducing Extraneous Processing
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Coherance
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Signaling
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Redundancy
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Spatial Contiguity
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Temporal Contiguity
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Managing Essential Processing
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Segmenting
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Pre-Training
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Modality
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Fostering Generative Processing
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Personalization
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Voice
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Embodiment
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Image
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