Week 2

In class we were shown a lot of different models for instructional design.

I liked the ADDIE model best. I like that evaluation is in the center of it. I feel like evaluation is a driving force in creating instruction. If you are not constantly evaluating what you are doing, how will you create something good?

Analysis
Development
Design
Implementation
Evaluation

Does instruction help with motivation? It can. If there is high engagement, that usually leads to higher motivation.

Systems approach-- requires that all instructional processes be viewed as interrelated parts of a whole system, to be analyzed, designed, and developed in a coordinated and interdependent process.
Beneficial because it focuses on what learners do and links all the parts together carefully.

1. Technology is value free (it does not make things faster or our lives easier)
2. The application of technological solutions to one problem may create other problems which may be more serious than the original problems.
3. Applications of technology should be selected and/or continued only after determining that desirable consequences outweigh undesirable consequences

Conclusions: I am excited to learn and apply the ADDIE model because I think it is a good system. It makes sense and is a good framework for instructional design because it focuses on an objective. Objectives are so important because if we don't have an objective, what are we even doing? We need that focus in our teaching. Also, I like ADDIE because it focuses on evaluation during the design process.