2. The six characteristics of instructional design are that it is learner centered and goal oriented, focuses on meaningful performance, assumes outcomes can be measured in a reliable and a valid way, is empirical, iterative, and self-correcting, and it is typically a team effort. When looking at the model presented by Dick, Carey, and Carey, I would keep it basically the same except I would split up the very last step of designing and conducting summative evaluation. I think that the evaluation needs to be designed at the same time that the performance objectives are written. The evaluation cannot be conducted until the end but I feel that it needs to be designed at an earlier stage. I would have to say that in my work environment, we are not very good at instructional design. We rely on the design that the curriculum writers present to us. As a teacher, I analyze the information that the textbook developers provide us and use their suggestions to develop my plans for the week. I spend the week implementing the curriculum with my students and then my students are evaluated at the end of the week on what they were taught. I am adding a slideshare of The Addie Model. This helps explain what it is.
3. As I read this chapter, I could see myself sitting in a third grade classroom watching a filmstrip using a film projector. I remember how the filmstrip would break and start flapping around and have to be taped back together. Wow! Technology has come a long way since then-and I am only in my thirties. Today, technology is used on a daily basis. With the use of a projector connected to a computer, a television is no longer needed in the classroom to show visual instruction. Almost anything can be streamed via the internet and shown to the class. My district subscribes to Discovery Education so we have instant access to educational programming for our students. As teachers, we have access to PD360 which is an online site that offers staff development at all times. We have gotten accustomed to having everything needed at our fingertips, thanks to the world wide web. Our Junior High has recently received a grant which will provide all of the seventh and eighth grade students with a tablet computer to use at school and at home. This is the direction that technology is headed is education for all levels. There are so many degrees offered online now that I see the number of adults enrolled in continuing education to grow by leaps and bounds. Adults can now take classes online and not have to worry about finding time to sit in a classroom for hours while holding down a full time job and raising a family. The same is true with Higher Education. The only reason I was able to go back to school to earn my Masters Degree is because the entire program is online. The use of technology in the K12 classrooms will continue to grow as well. I have watched music in the classrooms transform from cassette tapes to cd’s to iPods. My students can grab the iPod and read along as they listen to stories on it. The days of the heavy tape players that ate the cassettes and the monster headphones are over. I feel that the use of interactive white boards will continue to grow and in a few years will be a staple item in every classroom. The use of cloud computing is making group projects easier because the students can work together from their own houses instead of having to find a time when everyone can meet to work on it. I can see the use of a blog like this one to be a very handy tool in K12 reading classrooms. What a great way to report on books that have been read and a new and fun way to do a book report. Students as young as kindergarten could make blog entries about books that they read or listened too. I have a son in first grade this year and I cannot wait to see what types of media will be available to him by the time he graduates high school.
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