Title: Activity 2.3: Thinking about our Pedagogic Strategies
Course: Stage 2: Course Design and Technology > Section: 2. Learning Theories, Strategies, and Affordances

Purpose: to indentify the way that we think our students learn, which  will lead us to choose particular kinds of learning activities.

Timing: 60 (30+30) mins

Tool: Forum (Q&A type) (Note you will not be able to see what others have posted until you have made your own contribution.)

Resource: Bates, Tony (2014) Learning Theories and Online Learning - Blog article

Tasks:

(a) Read the above article. Think about how the understanding of the learning theories could guide the design of activities in a course like yours.

(b) Now consider what kinds of activities would you design for your students to do::

  1. If we think our students learn by responding to rewards and punishments, then …
  2. If we think that our students make meaning of the world, then ….
  3. If we think of the way our students process information, then ...
  4. If we think that our students learn with other people and in community, then …
  5. If we think our students are self-motivated and focus on what interests them, then …
  6. If we think that learning happens in face to face and online networks of people then ...

Response: Complete the sentences within the forum thread by responding to at least 3 of the questions.

    - Share your responses in the forum.
    - Has anyone else's response caused you to rethink your pedagogic strategy?

Post-Activity Resource: Bates, A.W. (Tony) (2019) Teaching in a Digital Age. (2nd Edition). Also see the Bates YouTube Playlist of 12 accompanying videos Playlist of 12 accompanying videos.