Part 1 - the e-learning principles included and how they promote critical thinking skills.
Segmenting - Segmenting content promotes comprehension of material by avoiding overwhelming the user with information. In my lesson, the objective is broken down into the use of latitude, the use of longitude, and how knowing that information will help the user. By ensuring comprehension of each of these elements separately the user then will be able to apply the information whenever looking at, evaluating, or trying to use a map.
Contiguity Principle - Integration of graphics and text - As Clark and Mayer pointed out, users spend more time looking at graphics than they do reading text. Therefore is it important for those graphics to be meaningful and have a connection with the text. In the Using Maps storyboard the vocabulary used is always connected with an image that demonstrates the definition of the term to address this need on behalf of the user
Effective Practices - Through the use of practices and faded examples used in the Using Maps storyboard users are required to use critical thinking skills in order to apply the information they were just taught. These practices were specifically designed to go beyond basic recall of information.
Summary - though the learning principles used in this storyboard were not limited to segmenting, learner control, contiguity, and practices, these principles really require the user to implement the skills he or she has learned taking the learning into the high levels of learning.
Using Maps - Storyboard
Summary - though the learning principles used in this storyboard were not limited to segmenting, learner control, contiguity, and practices, these principles really require the user to implement the skills he or she has learned taking the learning into the high levels of learning.
Using Maps - Storyboard
