Author: sunnyskies

________________________________________________________________________ Video What kind of interaction would the video require from your students? Does it force them to respond in some way? For one the resources in our learning design we have selected this video: Write an Equation for a Real World Situation from the Magic of Math youtube channel. It teaches students how to…

________________________________________________________________________ Designing for Everyone: Reducing Barriers in Solving for Why Our learning design “Solving for Why” includes six activities: video walkthroughs, drag-and-drop matching, build-your-own scenario, interactive parameter sliders, a misconception challenge, and peer discussion via Nearpod. Each of these learning activities was designed with real world connection in mind, and I found that two of…

________________________________________________________________________ Experiential learning is learning by doing. It’s not just experiencing the material, but engaging with it. The theory was first conceptualized by David A. Kolb: “the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience” (Kolb, 1984, as cited in Stirling, 2019). He breaks down learning into key concepts like grounded experience, mastery…

________________________________________________________________________ Before starting university, I decided to take CS50, Harvard’s free introductory computer science course. I was motivated to begin it because I planned to major in computer science, but unlike many of my classmates, I had very little prior coding experience. I hoped the course would give me confidence and catch me up to…