My favorite instructional design is to give everyone a website and then push everything to a public feed, but stopped doing that in non tech undergrad classes, too much cognitive load, anxiety of identities, retreated back inside the LMS,
@josebowen Will go back and find exact context, but in many ways I agree, I always want to recreate the learning I see and do in my self -organized online spaces in my online classes, but I never will. The motivation of required learning different
@flipping_A_tchr Danger wrong aspect to define Martin Luther King's life in 10 min, why not "Why do you think Martin Luther King would risk his life for what he believed? Is there anything you think you would be willing to risk your life to change?"
@josebowen Great first line in the feedback chapter "Feedback is essential for learning. Grades are not" .....my internal debate I have are grades detrimental?...yes quizzes and grades improve recall...
In his speech about Martin Luther King uses phrase "I wouldn't stop there," in discussion of history of human rights. What affect does phrase have on meaning of speech and as we continue his work today where should we go next with human rights?
"I have been to the Mountaintop" also an important insight to Dr. King's changing views on capitalism and economic inequality, also a walk down progression of "human rights revolution". Either could be explored with much deeper thinking.
Something is wrong when a car company who just scratches out a profit: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/23/20928982/tesla-q4-earnings-profit-model-3-china-gigafactory is also the most valuable: https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/477394-tesla-is-now-most-valuable-us-auto-company-in-history
And I have been experimenting with ungrading (even given the evidence of grading and quizzes..) and failing there as well, will post my end of semester reflection on my course evals soon, and then start redesigning again...
@aaranged In education land we call it text structure, you can't be intelligent content if your reader can't infer your organization through your structure.... This seems like an SEO article without saying SEO and seems more worried about machine readable structures rather than human.
Still a program wide #DoOO project where every student can answer, "My url is" and the crafting of an identity as a learner begins online and in first year experience, either at university level or program level is my dream.