Reading Reaction:
Chapter 1 emphasizes the importance of conceptualization and
the idea of re-design. Both of these encourage an openness to looking at
courses holistically, with everything “on the table”. I think that the “enhancement”
mental model fails to meet the idea of re-thinking everything in a holistic
way. It tempts us to jump right to planning and substituting learning
activities and assignments rather than starting with learning objectives. New
technologies give us the opportunity to think about new or different learning
objectives that simply were not possible in the past. Given not just advances
in technology but also changes in society, the work force, the economic
realities our students face and will face, etc., what is “ideal” now? I find it
hard to believe that the “ideal” today is exactly the same as it was decades
ago.
Are you a language instructor participating in BlendKit2017? Please join the Group BlendKit2017 for Modern Language Instructors
No comments:
Post a Comment