Remote Possibilities: Likely Instructional Learning by Lauren

 Based on your reading and your own experiences,  Describe what you find most interesting about the authors' thoughts about design, especially as it relates to your previous/current/future work in education or other work settings where learning/teaching/training happens.  What questions did your reading raise for you about the nature or role of design and instructional design in your work, be it past, present or future? What I found most interesting in the discussion across the first two chapters of our textbook was the urgency it seemed the author's had to justify our field as something as relevant and necessary to world as what it was comparing the work to; art and science by Parrish and Nelson (2017). Bannan (2017) further extending the inflation of instructional design as a field that deserves the attention of cognition research and the potential of commonalities of the work of the field with other fields relying on design as their purpose and practice. I had not considered

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Prompt What are your early impressions of using a blog and what was your experience using Socrative (or Poll Everywhere) this week? Any surprises, pleasant or otherwise? Which part(s) of Dale’s Cone do you think each tool (Blog, Socrative/Poll Everywhere) lends itself best to and why? Considering Siegel’s concept of “computer imagination”, what do you think would be at least one “imaginative” educational use of each tool (blog, BYOD) that takes advantage of each tool’s inherent strengths? That is, what do you think you and/or your students could use these tools for that they might not be able to do with other more simple or low-tech tools? Or, as Postman might ask, what is a problem to which each of these tools is an answer? Response My first experiences using a blog was back when blogs were just starting to gain increasing popularity. I remember then the motivation being similar to what Facebook has taken over, however blogs encouraged a more personalized and intimate experience with

Welcome to the Broadbox Collective! As you may know Broadbox is a community of educational innovators who teach collegiate freshman and are trying to bob along in the current of life as a regular experience of change. We want to give you tools to bring versions of yourself to your educational environments that foster creativity, resourcefulness, courage, and practices in melding intuition with practicality. To do that we first have to acknowledge that there are things that are out of our control as educators. The resources we have access to, the innovative spirit of our administrations, the emotional and experiential matter our students carry already in their heads. Acknowledgment is a practice. Broadbox is named because sometimes education in the situations we are in is not something we have the support, capacity, or resources to think outside of. So we want to create a community that, rather than focusing on individual escape, is able to come together and find ways to work expansivel

I read Postman's article first. Postman's tone, arguments, and logic struck a familiar cord. Many of his more conservative notions were things espoused to me by academics that I was exposed to in my undergraduate years, and K-12 years as well. Reading Joseph's article second was, as suggested, a far more optimistic read, and also a broader minded one that I felt addressed the pieces of educational debate that I find most resonant with my actual lived experience and personal observations. I think it's interesting that while both articles are essentially informed opinion pieces it is clear that Joseph holds himself to a higher standard of burden of proof than Postman does. Postman is busy setting up his own defense while also a number of alarmist statements and strawmen for him to handily pretend he has defeated. Joseph builds a steady case based on persistent observations and criticisms that have existed in the public education sphere before the rise of tech, and will na