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Laura Campbell
Design Lead
Laura Campbell has been working at Allen Communication for over five years as the Design Lead in the instructional design and development department. As the Design Lead, Laura performs roles as a project manager and technical writer for all projects that go through her department. She works closely with graphic designers and programmers to ensure that instruction objectives are being met and implemented correctly.
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Week13 (Nov 16-23) "What is Learning" and "How Can I Effectuate Learning"
Week 13 (Nov 16-23, 2009) "What is Learning" and "How Can I Effectuate Learning"
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Reflection on Field Trip
When Prof. Belland announced the field trips at the beginning of the semester, I got very excited to see what goes on in our field of study, in the private sector. I sadly was not able to attend the first one, but I did get to go visit LetterPress Software. There I was able to meet a professional in our field with some of interesting insight.
Though his name escapes my mind at this time, he was a very simple guy, with simple ideas. Now, even though simplicity was his favorite way of describing what he shared with us, there was a lot of complexity creating this simplicity. His ideas were indeed simple, and I must say I do share his beliefs in designing simple instruction, but the steps to get there, may take a lot of time and experience to develop.
Bruner's Learning Theory: Teaching and Learning with this Theory
Bruner's theory that we studied this week is hard for me to get a full grasp on. It seems that he has so many components to his learning approach that it was hard for me to narrow down to the central parts. The key parts that stick out to me most are the spiral curriculum and the discovery learning. If there were more "key" components, I missed it!
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Week 13: What is learning? How can learning be best effectuated by a teacher/trainer?
What is learning? If knowledge can be represented in 3 ways: iconic, enactive, and symbolic, then it seems that learning takes place in three ways: iconic enactive and symbolic. I think that any time we find another way to represent our understanding of the world around us we have found another way to learn. And another way to teach for that matter.
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